About us:  

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here. 

About Stores, Assets Protection & Properties Product Operations: The Stores, Assets Protection (AP) & Properties Product Operations Delivery Management team exists to drive strategic alignment between Stores, AP & Properties Product and enterprise stakeholders and accelerate delivery of new product capabilities needed to support Enterprise and Stores, AP & Properties strategic outcomes. 

As a Product Ops Manager within the Stores, AP & Properties Product Operations Organization, you will collaborate across our Product, Tech and partner teams to deliver on high integrity commitments – accelerating our growth and progress through strategic support, planning and portfolio health, and communications. You will leverage your prior experience to engage product partners in the creation and implementation of team routines that reflect product thinking and connection to OKRs. You will integrate intention maps from multiple teams to represent cross functional bodies of work, fueling collaboration across product.  You will bring visibility to dependencies and risks across the portfolio and provide visibility to progress of our Product KPIs. You will also serve as a trusted advisor to product teams and leaders by bringing data and insights into conversations and meetings. You are accountable to driving awareness and strategic alignment among Stores, AP & Properties product and enterprise stakeholders to efficiently and effectively deliver new product capabilities needed to support Enterprise and Stores, AP & Properties strategic outcomes. 

Your core responsibilities include:  

• Manage and/or support high integrity commitment advancement by creating clarity and driving alignment across product, process, tech and Enterprise partners. 

• Co-create and implement strategic structure to advance transparency to planned work, identify synchronization gaps, track progress against plans, and navigate risks. 

• Provide support, develop playbooks, and create organizational efficiencies by centralizing consistent tools and processes. 

• Track and communicate the progress and KPIs for our product portfolio to provide visibility to success and opportunities from inception to launch and beyond. 

• Advocate for and support best practices in tools, processes, documentation and communication across product teams and with stakeholders and leaders. 

• Support integration of intention maps to understand interdependencies among teams. 

About you:  

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience

• 4+ years of product management, project management, or product ops experience

• Foundational retail field domain/operations knowledge preferred 

• Comfort navigating uncertainty and ability to self-organize, meet deadlines and lead with resilience 

• Demonstrated ability to bridge business and technical teams - understands product principles and technology interactions

• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)

• Project or program management experience - Ability to successfully manage one or multiple initiatives utilizing a wide variety of project management tools and resources (SmartSheet, Confluence and Jira experience) 

• Ability to story tell and communicate complex concepts in easy-to-understand terminology across multiple stakeholders  

• Ability to influence peers and partners to find common ground, push for consistency where possible, facilitate conversations, and navigate competing interests 

• Critical thinker and proven problem solver, including in scenarios where data is not readily available 

• Curiosity with a passion for learning and contributing to a growth culture 

• Comfortable with ambiguity and change - Operating at the heart of Target’s growth strategy

• Experience creating and delivering product tools & stakeholder materials

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.