Posted:
9/6/2024, 7:33:57 PM
Location(s):
Karnataka, India
Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
Product
About us:
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.
Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values diverse backgrounds. We believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful. At Target, inclusion is part of the core value. We aim to create equitable experiences for all, regardless of their dimensions of difference. As an equal opportunity employer, Target provides diverse opportunities for everyone to grow and win.
Product Teams at Target Corporation are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product, technology and design work.
About Team:
The Digital Data and Platform Product team is responsible for developing foundational Digital data assets in our big data environment focused on enterprise capabilities that empower our teams and stakeholders to make data driven decisions regarding the digital business. This role is also responsible for Product Management of Data Platform Products which cover products that are data storage and compute based (big data infra) and data operations (movement, transform, observability, orchestration).
The Products under this position’s leadership empowers the organization by ensuring data is intuitive, performant, and trusted, while also providing a significant leadership opportunity to shape and mentor high-performing teams. With a direct impact on Target’s competitive advantage and visibility with senior leadership, this role is ideal for candidates looking to make a strategic, mission-driven impact in a dynamic environment.
Role overview:
As a Product Director, you will set the overall strategic vision for your product space and product team, are accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics, will set and manage the product’s budget and financials, set the short- and long-term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
You will be accountable for building, coaching, and mentoring a strong team of product managers while also building a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product teams. You will be responsible to elevate your collective team’s performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback to all roles on the team while also working with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution related barriers for your teams.
You will drive product discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering time, as you lead highly complex work across multiple pyramids, with interrelated specialties. You will leverage data and analytics to provide competitive analysis, drive decision making, assess the health and effectiveness of your products and related P&L impacts, and to deliver recommendations to key stakeholders.
It will be critical that you possess an understanding of retail or similar areas, relevant technologies and design principles in order to drive innovative and scalable solutions across multiple pyramids within Target.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
Four-year degree or equivalent experience
10+ years of product management experience or equivalent domain experience, preferably with Big data technologies, data movement technologies, and leading Data Products teams
Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
Strong communication skills and proven ability to influence both at a strategic leadership level and cross functionally
Expert at working in the agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
Strategic mindset and bias for action with strong ability for strategic planning, defining OKRs and driving business outcomes
Ability to lead and influence a team while fostering relationships across multiple enterprise-wide teams
Useful Links:
Life at Target - https://india.target.com/
Benefits - https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits
Culture - https://india.target.com/life-at-target/diversity-and-inclusion
Website: https://www.target.com/
Headquarter Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Employee Count: 10001+
Year Founded: 1962
IPO Status: Public
Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity
Industries: Communities ⋅ E-Commerce ⋅ Retail ⋅ Shopping