UX Designer, 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 Product 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 contribute to the evolution of the Target Design System, including multi-platform libraries, design tokens, versioning, governance, and accessibility, maximizing user adoption and reusability. You will deliver exceptionally high quality, usable design components that drive efficiency and consistency across end-to-end guest and employee facing experiences. 

This role will join a team of passionate designers creating components and supporting partners across Target in creating robust, intuitive, and accessible experiences for our guests and team members.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers, developers, and product managers to contribute to the creation, maintenance, and evolution of reusable, responsive, and accessible design components.

• Design and document components and patterns in Figma, ensuring consistency with design tokens, proper use of variants, auto-layout, accessibility, and best practices.

• Ensure high-quality design assets by maintaining detailed documentation and usage guidelines that support teams in adopting the design system.

• Work closely with developers to align design and code, supporting the implementation of design system components.

• Contribute to education and training efforts by creating resources that promote best practices and adoption of the design system.

• Stay informed on design system trends, industry best practices, and platform-specific guidelines to enhance the system's evolution.

• Operate effectively within agile workflows, helping to prioritize work based on needs, resources, and capacity.

• Advocate for accessibility and usability best practices in all design system work.

About you:  

• 1+ years of experience working with design systems, with a portfolio showcasing contributions to component libraries and reusable design patterns.

• Strong knowledge of Figma and experience working within structured component libraries.

• Ability to collaborate with design, product, and engineering partners to implement and improve design system components.

• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain consistency across a large-scale design system.

• Effective communication skills, with the ability to document and present design decisions clearly.

• Understanding of responsive design, accessibility (WCAG standards), and platform-specific considerations for web, iOS, and Android.

• Willingness to learn and adapt to governance processes for maintaining a scalable design system.

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