Lead UX Designer - Design Systems (Remote Eligible)

As a Lead UX Designer on our Design Systems team, you'll help shape the future of Target's digital experiences across guest and team member products. Our design systems power experiences across platforms, enabling product teams to create consistent, accessible, and scalable solutions with greater speed and quality.

You will lead the creation and evolution of reusable components, patterns, documentation, and governance that enable teams to build exceptional experiences. As product creation evolves through AI-assisted workflows, prompt-based interfaces, and emerging builder tools, you'll help ensure our design systems remain structured, scalable, and ready to support both human and machine consumers.

This role combines systems thinking, design craft, and technical partnership. You'll work closely with designers, engineers, product teams, and platform partners to create robust design system foundations while helping shape how those systems are consumed through modern development workflows, automation, and AI-enabled experiences.

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.

• 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.

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target., Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_E

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., Target offers comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans. Plus, get free 24/7 virtual care and mental health support.

Financial well-being

Your financial future is bright with TGT 401(k) offering 5% eligible contribution matching and more discount and reimbursement programs.

Paid time off

Target encourages work-life balance by offering seven paid holidays, paid sick time, paid family leave, and a flexible paid time off plan that doesn't require time tracking (unless in a location where it is legally required).

Education assistance

Target's industry-leading education assistance benefit, Dream to Be, offers tuition-free programs to support your growth.

Market-leading pay

Target is a proud pay leader in retail and highly competitive with other large companies, providing equitable and competitive pay for all.

Team Target discount

Team members get a 10% discount at all Target stores and Target.com, along with 20% off wellness products and 20% off adult owned-brand apparel and accessories. Plus, get an additional 5% savings with a Target Circle Card. More about pay & benefits

Eligibility requirements may vary based on position, average hours worked, length of service and program requirements. Benefits are subject to change.