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Product Designer - Furniture

Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Hybrid $71,000 - $128,000 Full-time Senior

The role involves leading Owned Brand product design and development for furniture, working under design leadership to achieve product strategy and merchant objectives by designing full lines leveraging expertise in 3D design, materials, construction, and manufacturing. Responsibilities include driving product research, concepting, line development, translating insights into differentiated solutions, and ensuring design intent is maintained through development stages.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Owned Brand product design and development for furniture, working under direction from design leadership to achieve overall product strategy and merchant objectives
  • Design full lines that support specific categories, brands, or guest segments, leveraging deep expertise in 3D design, materials, construction, and manufacturing
  • Be accountable for and lead all stages of the product design and development process
  • Partner with sourcing and technical design to ensure design intent is maintained through all development stages
  • Collaborate closely with technical design, sourcing, engineering, and merchant teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve product issues

Requirements

  • Four-year degree in Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Fine Arts, or related field—or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of professional design experience, preferably in furniture, lighting, or related 3D physical product categories
  • Advanced skills in 3D modeling and rendering tools (e.g., Rhino, SolidWorks, KeyShot, Blender, or similar)
  • Strong rapid sketching and visualization skills, including ability to use AI tools for fast iterative concepting
  • Deep understanding of materials, finishes, furniture/lighting construction, and large-scale product manufacturing

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits and programs
  • 401(k) employee discount
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation

Key Skills

Industrial design Furniture design 3D modeling Rendering Materials science Manufacturing processes Product development Design leadership Cross-functional collaboration Communication Problem-solving Time management Adobe Creative Suite Rhino SolidWorks KeyShot Blender

About Target

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. For more information, visit corporate.target.com. Beware of Hiring Scams: Target will never ask you to submit personal information via a text message for a position. Target will only ask you to apply for positions through corporate.target.com/careers, or Workday, our applicant tracking system.

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