Senior Designer, Design and Strategy Concept

Target Brands, Inc.

$95K — $171K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in product or concept design within the home sector
  • Strong understanding of the home industry across mass and designer brands
  • Expertise in color, material, pattern, and technique for home categories
  • Proven track record of collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams
  • Exceptional multitasking skills in a fast-paced environment
  • Outstanding written and visual presentation abilities
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a bias for action and adaptability

Responsibilities

  • Conduct research on consumer trends and macro drivers impacting the home market
  • Develop seasonal brand concepts that align with enterprise strategy
  • Serve as Brand Captain for either Threshold or Room Essentials
  • Ensure cohesive execution of product assortments across categories
  • Collaborate with design teams to meet divisional and category objectives
  • Drive branded identity through strategic use of color, form, material, and theme
  • Influence go-to-market strategies in cooperation with merchandising and marketing

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Employee discounts on Target products
  • Paid vacation and sick leave
  • Short and long term disability options
  • Paid national holidays
Full Job Description
The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00

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.

The role of the Design Strategy & Concept team within the Home OBPDP organization is to provide both the strategy and inspirational direction necessary to both the assortment and design process within the Home Pyramid. The ideal candidate has an in-depth knowledge of the Home space, a keen eye for identifying market trends and consumer shifts, and is able to craft and articulate visual brand stories that clearly tie back to brand and pyramid level strategies.

As a Sr. Designer for the Home Design Strategy & Concept team, you will conduct consumer, industry and product research, leveraging those insights to influence Owned Brand identity and create seasonal brand concepts that drive both enterprise and Owned Brand strategy. You'll play an integral part of the larger design org., closely collaborating with design teams across all categories, and influencing peers and leaders. In addition to driving the creation of seasonal brand concepts, you will act as a brand captain for one of our anchor home brands, Threshold or Room Essentials, playing a key role in concept execution from ideation to go to market through design execution and connected storytelling. Core responsibilities of this role are outlined below, but job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

This role will work from our Downtown MN campus. They currently are 4 days in office per week. This is not a remote eligible position.

In this role you will:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Act as a point person between various design teams across divisions, ensuring divisional and category needs are considered and addressed
  • Drive differentiated Owned Brand identity through color, form, material, price and theme


The ideal candidate:
  • 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


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.

Team Members in the Target General Merch Inc operating company are prohibited from working more than thirty (30) days per calendar year in any of the following states: AL, AR, DE, FL, IN, IA, LA, MD, MS, MO, NC, OK, PA, SC, TN and VA. If hired, you will be prohibited from working remotely from any of the states listed above for more than thirty (30) days per calendar year.

Benefits Eligibility
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Application deadline is : 09/13/2026

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