Lead UX Product Designer – Emerging Experiences

The pay range is $126,600.00 - $227,900.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents 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. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

About Target  

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here. 

Target UX 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.   

 

About the team 

The Emerging Experiences team focuses on future-forward guest experiences that are seamless, inspiring, and full of possibility. We imagine what’s next for Target’s digital and physical touchpoints—and bring those ideas to life through immersive, high-fidelity storytelling.  

This team works across the ecosystem—collaborating with product, engineering, brand, stores, and enterprise strategy—to prototype the future and make it real. We're here to create clarity in complexity. At Target, design isn’t just how something works—it’s how it feels. It’s how we bring joy to everyday life, through moments of clarity, emotion, and care. 

About the job 

As a Lead UX Designer, you’ll help shape how millions of guests engage with Target—before, during, and beyond the transaction. You’ll use service design methods, guest insights, and experience frameworks to bring clarity to complex problems and design vision to moments that matter. 

You’ll co-lead strategy sprints, map future-state journeys, create artifacts that align teams, and build the connective tissue between product, operations, and brand. You’ll move seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on design—working across teams to define experience direction and accelerate delivery. 

Your work will help Target show up as one cohesive, compelling experience—across platforms, across journeys, across time. 

Responsibilities 

• Define and lead multi-touchpoint guest experiences, leveraging service design methods like journey mapping, ecosystem modeling, co-creation, and service blueprinting 

• Partner with cross-functional peers to connect insights, experi