About the Role
As a 3D Designer, you will lead the creation of compelling, design-driven 3D content that brings product concepts to life and influences decision-making across the product lifecycle. You will operate as a creative partner to Design, Product Development, and Brand teams, using 3D and AI-enabled workflows to explore ideas, refine concepts, and deliver high-quality visual outputs. You will play a key role in evolving how design teams leverage 3D and Gen AI as core design tools, while ensuring outputs are aligned with brand standards and scalable across platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead the creation of high-quality 3D assets and visualizations, translating 2D concepts, sketches, and design direction into compelling product storytelling while driving excellence in modeling, materials, lighting, rendering, and composition.
- Leverage Gen AI and prompt-driven workflows to rapidly explore, refine, and communicate product concepts, materials, colorways, and styling directions.
- Integrate Gen AI outputs with 3D design workflows to deliver production-ready visualizations that accelerate concept development and decision-making.
- Partner closely with product designers to co-create, iterate, and influence product concepts through rapid visualization, prototyping, and reduced reliance on physical samples.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with technical artists, merchandising, marketing, digital teams, and external partners to ensure scalable, optimized, and brand-consistent design outcomes.
- Maintain alignment with Target brand standards, category-specific design language, and quality expectations across all visual deliverables and channels.
- Drive innovation by identifying and applying emerging trends, tools, and workflows in 3D visualization and AI-enabled design to improve creative exploration, efficiency, and design outcomes.
- Enable team capability through knowledge sharing, documentation, best-practice development, and support for adoption of 3D and Gen AI workflows across Design and Product Development teams.
Requirements
- Four-year degree in Design, 3D Design, CGI, Digital Media, Product Design, Industrial Design or related field, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of relevant experience in 3D design, visualization, CGI, digital product creation, creative technology, or related fields
- Proficient in industry-standard 3D design, visualization, and rendering tools such as SolidWorks, Rhino, 3ds Max, Maya, Blender, Substance Suite, Unreal Engine, KeyShot, CLO, Browzwear, or similar platforms
- Experience using Gen AI design tools such as ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Vizcom, Runway, or similar tools to support ideation, concept development, and design exploration
- Strong understanding of modeling, materials, lighting, rendering, scene composition, scale, proportion, and visual storytelling
- Knowledge of real-time, interactive, digital, and production environments, including optimization and production-ready asset creation
- Highly collaborative and able to successfully work with designers, technical partners, merchants, marketers, and business teams
- Effective at presenting ideas, influencing decisions, and communicating new workflows and creative approaches
- Motivated and self-directed with strong ownership, accountability, and follow-through from concept through delivery
- Ability to respond to business objectives with creative, original, and efficient design solutions
- Strong aptitude for design, visualization, emerging technology, and AI-enabled creativity, with a demonstrated curiosity for trends, innovation, and continuous learning
Skills
- 3D design
- Visualization
- CGI
- Digital product creation
- Creative technology
- SolidWorks
- Rhino
- 3ds Max
- Maya
- Blender
- Substance Suite
- Unreal Engine
- KeyShot
- CLO
- Browzwear
- ChatGPT
- Adobe Firefly
- Vizcom
- Runway
- Modeling
- Materials
- Lighting
- Rendering
- Scene composition
- Scale
- Proportion
- Visual storytelling
- Real-time environments
- Interactive environments
- Digital environments
- Production environments
- Optimization
- Production-ready asset creation
- Gen AI
- AI-enabled design
Location
- Target HQ MN
Work Type
- Hybrid/Flex for Your Day
Experience Level
- 4+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Four-year degree in Design, 3D Design, CGI, Digital Media, Product Design, Industrial Design or related field, or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $73,000.00 - $132,000.00
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits and programs (medical, vision, dental, life insurance)
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
About the Company
- Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life.
- 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.
- At the heart of one of the world’s best-loved and most recognizable brands is an impeccable Owned Brand Product Design & Development organization.
- We thrive on the magic of discovering that just-right product, and we infuse everything we do with our passion for affordable, differentiated design.
- We concept, develop, and deliver the products that Target guests expect and love.
- Our Digital Product Creation capability is transforming how products are designed, developed, and experienced by enabling speed, quality, and innovation at scale.
- Through 3D visualization, real-time experiences, and AI-powered design workflows, we are redefining how ideas come to life across categories and channels.
Equal Opportunity
- In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
