Lead UX Researcher - (Chicago, IL)

Lead Researcher – UX & Accessibility The Lead Researcher is responsible for building empathy for the Target Guest throughout the product development lifecycle for Target’s web, app and registry product teams. As a pivotal member the Target’s UX and Accessibility team, this team player will support Product Designers, Product Managers and Engineering for a broad set of digital and in-store experiences. Research projects, in cooperation with product teams and additional researchers, span future-thinking discovery projects, lean UX research to support product team needs, and design validation testing to enable Guest empathy and understanding throughout our development lifecycle and constant optimization. The researcher will translate research insights into powerful stories that help shape product design and development and garner leader’s support within the team. You utilize quantitative and qualitative research methods and know when to use 1 or the other.