via LinkedIn
$163K - 294K a year
Lead and develop UX strategies for Target's digital marketing and ad-tech platforms, overseeing multi-disciplinary teams and cross-organizational initiatives.
Over 10 years of UX/digital product design experience, 5+ years in leadership, experience in large, matrixed organizations, and strong stakeholder management skills.
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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 Us 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 (https://corporate.target.com/about) . Target’s Global UX team is a group of design, 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 Role As a Director of UX for the Roundel and MarTech team you’ll serve a group of 10 designers and design managers responsible for both Roundel media and Target Messaging guest experiences and the ad-tech and marketing tech experience strategy, human and agentic workflows, and AI-driven innovation. Success for this leader requires the ability to understand Target’s priorities and partner with a broad set of stakeholders to establish design & experience direction. Day to day you’ll ensure your teams have what they need to thrive and deliver great work. This includes operating routines, insights, design direction, partner awareness, and a collaborative and inclusive culture. You will build trust and proactively partner with UX, Product, Tech, Data Science, Marketing, and Business leaders to set the stage for your team to achieve exceptional outcomes. You are curious, ask questions, and are driven to connect the dots. As an experienced practitioner within complex, highly matrixed organizations, you will seek to co-create strategies with cross-functional partners and believe we are better building on each other’s strengths, while ensuring your team delivers high quality craft with efficiency and speed. You are adept at using data to articulate your rationale, are a clear communicator, can explain recommendations with authority and openness, and are comfortable advocating for design with partners and leaders. You have a demonstrated ability to build relationships and create impact through multiple levels of leadership including other Directors, Sr. Directors, and VPs and can maintain both drive and patience throughout the journey. As an experienced leader of people, you will coach, mentor, and guide a team of people leaders and ICs, helping them to grow and develop new skills, while increasing trust, transparency, and engagement. You have a demonstrated ability to strengthen both your own team and the overall UX organization and can thoughtfully scale your team with the right structures, roles, and responsibilities. You are comfortable leading through change and ambiguity and building a community of practice in a remote world. Responsibilities • Define and drive experiencevision andstrategy for Roundel andMarTechMessaging • Develop roadmapsin partnership with cross-functional leaders andacrosscross-organizational priorities • Overseescalable,AI-poweredmulti-channelexperiencesand lifecycles,including newpersonalizedmediaandmessagingformats • OverseeAI-poweredend-to-endmarketing and ad-techplatformworkflows,includingCRM,CMS,campaignautomation,decisioning and bidding,andperformancemanagement • Define service blueprints and UX success metrics to baseline andoptimizebothsystemand experience outcomes, as well as enable AI-powered decision and agentic evolution • Prioritize acrossa multi-platform and multi-stakeholder roadmap, using designleadership and co-creationmethods tosurfaceopportunities andguidetradeoffs • Grow the team's ability to create high-quality, accessible, usable,AI-poweredexperiences that push Target forward • Evolve the organization composition, assembling teams to successfully deliver on cross-area missions • Support the growth of UX managers on the team through 1:1s, performance management, and other resources About You • 10+ years of experience in UX/digital product design with a strong understanding of the craft of design • Foundational understanding of digital retailand ad-techbusinesses • 5+ years of experience in people leadership withdemonstratedexperience in hiring, leading, and coaching high performing, cross-geographyor remote teams. Experience managing teams of 15 or more a plus • Experience working in large, matrixed,globalor multi-national organizations a plus • Ability to balance short-term and long-term thinking while raising quality and team performance • Proactivelyidentifyand resolve issues that may impair the team from meeting strategic, business, or financial goals • Strong data-driven visual, verbal, and written story-telling skills with ability to bring partners along • Experience successfully managing many stakeholders through all phases of the design process 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. Benefits Eligibility Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_F Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel. Application deadline is : 12/28/2025 If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com
This job posting was last updated on 12/15/2025