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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’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.
About the role:
As a Senior UX Researcher within our Enterprise UX Team, you’ll be at the forefront of Target’s evolving digital experience, shaping it for our guests and team members and contributing to business growth. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, executing, and synthesizing research to create actionable insights for the cross functional product development team. You will translate research data into powerful stories that help shape Target’s products. This role is a key partner to several functions including product managers, UX designers, engineers, data scientists, content designers, accessibility consultants, and site merchandisers.
As one of the founding researchers on our newly formed Commercial Merchandising UX Research Team, you’ll be working on the product lifecycle experience to create a connected product & guest experience for Target’s Owned Brands. You will help evolve Target’s digital experience supporting our vendor partners; shaping it with ease, simplicity and growth for businesses to sell their products with Target. You’ll use tried and true research methodologies utilizing human centered design thinking to deepen our understanding of vendors’ experience, needs, and pain points with a focus on the end-to-end experience. As part of a cross functional team, you will help develop new ways of how we onboard, engage, and support the products we sell.
As a member of the team, you will contribute to advancing the broader practice of UX at Target through influence, impact, and craft, while also educating cross-functional teams when needed. We are an engaged, supportive, and increasingly diverse team focused on elevating the impact of our discipline.
Responsibilities:
Use your skills, experience, and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals
Take the lead in the Owned Brands space as you conduct and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research projects, such as: in person and remote moderated & unmoderated testing, surveys, heuristic reviews, benchmark studies, concept testing, online & in-store intercepts, ethnographies,
Utilize both quantitative and qualitative research methods and know when to use one or the other
Support product teams (product managers, product designers, engineering) throughout the research project life cycle – recommending appropriate methodology, scoping, and coordinating the entire process, facilitating in-field research and post-research synthesis through analysis
Assist the broader UX Research team in keeping our ongoing research library up-to-date and comprehensive
Contribute to a culture of human-centered practice within UX, product, and engineering teams
Navigate complexity and ambiguity delivering impact for guests, team members, and the business
About you:
Preferred 4-year degree in Anthropology, Social Science, Design Research, Psychology, Human Factors, HCI, or related field.
Experience in UX Research methods, including remote moderated & unmoderated testing, online & in-context (store) intercepts
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to cross functional partners
Genuine curiosity about people and experiences
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills; comfortable speaking to a diverse group of people and leading conversations to discover research insights
A strong ability to tell compelling stories from data
Comfortable with ambiguity and the ability to prioritize; demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects (both small and large) and adjust to changing priorities
Strong project management skills – experience managing multiple projects at various stages in the product design life cycle
Experience running, recruiting, moderating and analysis of online panels and thinking strategically about their application
Proficient in Powerpoint, Outlook, Word and other MS Office software
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, 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. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
Benefits Eligibility
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Application deadline is : 12/04/2025Top Skills
What We Do
Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.
