Lead Designer UX - Design Systems

About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

Overview about TII

At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn't happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target's global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company's global strategy and operations.

Team Overview:

Target's Global UX team is a group of design, content, research, and accessibility practitioners and experts, with a passion for improving and innovating our digital experiences for Target's guests, team members, and partners. Here, we pride ourselves on designing tangible, inspiring, and impactful solutions that serve all aspects of our business and being a part of the team means you will play a critical role for Target's digital experience by increasing ease, simplicity, value, and delight for every touchpoint.

Position Overview:

As a Lead UX Designer within our Design Systems Team, you'll be at the forefront of Target's evolving digital experience, shaping it for our guests and contributing to business growth. Our Design System is a multi-platform system used by Target product teams to create engaging and consistent user experiences. You will drive the evolution of the Target Design System, including multi-platform libraries, design tokens, versioning, governance, and accessibility, maximizing user adoption and reusability. You will define and deliver exceptionally high quality, usable design components that drive efficiency and consistency across end-to-end guest and employee facing experiences.

As a Lead on the Target UX team you will play a crucial role in driving the product development process, ensuring that our designs align with user needs, business objectives, and technological feasibility.

Responsibilities:

• Partner and collaborate with a cross functional team of designers, developers and product managers across teams to identify, prioritize, and create new design components that are reusable, responsive and accessible, leveraging these relationships to drive adoption of the design system
• Drive the creation of components and patterns in Figma, ensuring component consistency with code, Information Architecture, tokens alignment, definition of variants, auto-layout, proper utilization of plugins, version control, accessibility, and best practices
• Ensure the design assets your team creates maintains the highest of quality standards and are thoroughly documented with usage guidelines that connect and resonate with the teams using the design system
• Collaborate effectively with developers to maintain and create coded components that align to our design system
• Foster education, author training resources, and best practices to ensure a top-notch experience for teams adopting the design system
• Bring the latest insights, best practices and design patterns across industries and platforms
• Operate comfortably in agile environments within the parameters of sprints, helping the team prioritize work considering needs, resources and capacity
• Guide the design process, mentor, and coach other designers
• Hold design systems work to a high standard of craft, including accessibility, user research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design
• Build a network of relationships to enable your vision in service of our guest and team member experiences

About you:

• 8+ years experience in design systems as a senior or lead UX designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful design work building complex products with reusable components
• You thrive at the intersection of design strategy, scaled solutions, and craft
• Expert skills in UX and product design in complex environments, as well as structuring and planning work, and owning the design process
• Advanced proficiency in product design and prototyping tools (i.e. Figma)
• Advanced strategic problem-solving, systems thinking, and collaboration skills
• Advanced understanding of design systems and an ability to communicate its value to a large, complex organizations
• Proficient best practices for responsive design, accessible web, ios and android interfaces that meet WCAG Accessibility standards
• You are an expert in communicating how design systems connects to, serves, and improves business outcomes
• Exhibit a growth mindset

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Life at Target- https://india.target.com/

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Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging