Lead UX Designer

About us: Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers. Our purpose is to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. As a Lead Product Designer you’ll bring that purpose to life across Target.com, the Target app and more through the design of new retail experiences, evolution of existing ones and by enriching the user experience of our enterprise applications which today are the underlying factors of our Target’s business and strategies. You will work closely with Product Owners and users on deep discovery work that informs the iterative design of processes and UI that help guide users in Minneapolis and India to create the best experience for Target’s guests and team members. You thrive at the intersection of design craft and strategy. You’re passionate about making an impact and effectively connect data insights, business goals and users’ needs to set your direction. You value design that is welcoming, inspiring and simple. As a Lead Product Designer, you’ll... Own the full design process, from early discovery and testing to asset delivery and pixel-tweaking with engineers Design flows that are intuitive, elegant and provide value for our guests while accounting for a wide variety of scenarios Leverage data, business and internal users’ needs to inform and advocate for your direction Have full ownership and match the global standards of experience for enterprise applications used by team members at headquarters offices. Apply Lean UX with an Information Architect lens Define/be an prominent contributor of Design processes/disciplines and tools WoW around the agile methodologies with the Product and the Engineering teams which help our design team members in efficiently designing and delivering valuable solutions and experiences to our end-users Make sense of raw data from various sources and proficiently communicate the impact, foreseen challenges and next steps via data visualization Proactively identify and pursue design opportunities within your team Gracefully articulate and defend design decisions to peers, partners stakeholders and leaders Collaborate wildly well with others including Product designers, writers, engineers, product managers, QA, accessibility team members, UX researchers and partners in marketing Consult with other teams across Target(design systems, guest facing, internal tools and accessibility) to ensure cohesiveness in the team member experience Utilize & contribute to a pattern library maintained by our design systems team Gracefully give and receive critical design feedbacks Show ownership in the overall quality of design deliverables and effectively guide the design efforts of other product designers by helping and mentoring them Evolve as an SME in your product space with the help of business partnering, prioritising, communicating, directing and also behold a broader level vision of the overall Big picture 7+ years of visual and interaction design experience ~ A portfolio featuring digital design work enclosing in-depth case studies and clean/modern design thought process ~ Experience shipping digital products (web, apps or software) and Customer facing portals/ modules in preferably in retail domain ~ Demonstrated expertise with modern design, prototyping and collaboration tools (such as Figma and Miro) ~ Awareness of data and research methodologies and ability to conduct or partner with research experts ~ Proficiency in building metric-based-apps through data visualization ~ Able to articulate and defend design decisions with grace, logic and data ~ Track record of leading design on significant projects involving