Senior Designer, Design and Strategy Concept

Target Target · Retail · 2nd Fl New York, NY, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Designer for Target's Home Design Strategy & Concept team. This role involves conducting research on consumers and industry trends, leveraging insights to shape Owned Brand identity and create seasonal concepts. The designer will act as a Brand Captain for key brands, ensuring cohesive execution across product categories and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role requires understanding and translating external macro drivers, including the influence of AI, into actionable home-specific direction.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understand, research, react to and synthesize external macro drivers and consumer imperatives such as economic shifts, the influence of AI, and changing societal norms, translating them into actionable home specific direction
  2. Research and synthesize forward looking industry and esthetic trends to create brand right, directional seasonal concepts used to inform both seasonal assortments and cross-category development
  3. Act as a Brand Captain for one of Home’s key Owned Brands, Threshold or Room Essentials, ensuring consistent and cohesive execution of assortments across product categories, working with merchandising, visual merchandising and marketing teams to ensure a seamless go to market experience.
  4. Act as a point person between various design teams across divisions, ensuring divisional and category needs are considered and addressed
  5. Drive differentiated Owned Brand identity through color, form, material, price and theme

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years experience in product or concept design within home
  • Adept at synthesizing and actioning against business strategy goals
  • Has a deep understanding of the home industry from mass, to designer and aspirational brands
  • Developed sense of color, material, pattern and technique across all home categories
  • Strong collaborator, understanding of how to influence cross-functional peers and leaders
  • Ability to multitask and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong written and visual presentation kills
  • Bias to action, innovation and adaptability with an emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking

What the JD emphasized

  • influence of AI