Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Target is a company focused on helping families discover the joy of everyday life. As a Lead UX Designer on the Design Systems team, you will shape the future of Target's digital experiences by leading the creation and evolution of reusable components and patterns that enhance accessibility and efficiency across products.
Responsibilities
- Partner with designers, engineers, product managers, and platform teams to identify, prioritize, and deliver reusable components and patterns that drive consistency, efficiency, accessibility, and adoption across products
- Lead the creation and evolution of components and patterns in Figma, ensuring alignment with code, design tokens, accessibility standards, governance practices, and emerging AI-enabled workflows. Create system assets that can be effectively consumed by both humans and machines
- Create and maintain documentation, usage guidance, metadata, implementation standards, and educational resources that help teams successfully adopt the system while supporting automation, tooling, and machine-readable consumption
- Collaborate closely with engineering partners to ensure system assets are accurately represented in code and support modern development workflows across platforms
- Contribute to the evolution of design system governance and architecture, ensuring the system remains scalable, maintainable, and adaptable as product creation evolves
- Evaluate emerging technologies, tooling, and AI-assisted workflows, and help teams adopt new ways of working through education, mentorship, and advocacy for systems thinking
Skills
- 6+ years of experience in design systems as a Lead UX Designer, with a portfolio demonstrating the successful evolution and adoption of large-scale, multi-platform design systems serving a broad ecosystem of products and teams
- Deep expertise in design systems, including tokens, components, patterns, governance, accessibility, documentation, and system adoption
- Experience designing, governing, and scaling component libraries in Figma across web, iOS, and Android platforms
- Strong understanding of how design systems are implemented and consumed in code, with experience partnering closely with engineering teams to bring systems to life
- Familiarity with emerging AI-assisted design and development workflows, including prompt-based interfaces, code generation, Figma Make, MCP-enabled tooling, and other technologies shaping the future of product creation
- Understanding of intent-driven design approaches and how patterns, metadata, and system structures enable consistent outcomes across human-authored, automated, and AI-assisted workflows
- Strong systems-thinking skills with the ability to balance immediate product needs with long-term platform sustainability and scalability
- Proven ability to influence strategy and drive alignment across design, engineering, product, accessibility, and platform partners
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to advocate for systems thinking, articulate design decisions, and build support for new approaches
- Fluency in responsive design, accessibility standards, and best practices across web, iOS, and Android platforms
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
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