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. 

Right along with Target’s distinctive retail brand, we are constantly improving and innovating our digital shopping experience. Are you ready to excel in the fast-changing retail environment? Are you a customer service enthusiast who’s curious about the customer and can see the shopping journey through their eyes? Then you’ll have success on the Digital Strategy & Platform team, whose goal is to offer customers a seamless online shopping experience across our platforms—including Target.com and the store network’s fulfillment capabilities. Here, you’ll collaborate to create and implement digital strategies that enrich the online experience through the right mix of personalization, simplicity and intuitiveness. Your ideas will support Target in complementing the beloved in-store shopping interaction with a convenient, reliable and instantly gratifying digital experience.  

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 products, technology and design work. 

As a Director, Digital Data Product Management leader, you will be responsible for: 

• Driving the vision for the data Ecosystem portfolio towards the goal of reducing time to value for cross functional Digital users with a unified, friction-free approach to getting data and managing the data lifecycle for ingestion, processing, troubleshooting, and management.  

• Finding ways to leverage data flow throughout an entire product lifecycle (not just the design stage), and they use that data to build and perfect a feature or product 

• Championing data literacy within the organization and driving adoption rates 

• Developing and tracking key metrics to define product success 

• Designing and executing various A/B and multivariate tests to shape the next iteration of a product 

You will be accountable for building, coaching, and mentoring a strong team of product owners 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 overall experience with a minimum of 6 years in B2C Product Management [frontend user experience preferably leading top of the funnel workstream] 

• Prior experience and expertise in B2C eCommerce / eRetail or similar 

• Proven experience in product positioning, optimizing content on page for performance and driving revenues.

• Data Centric with expertise on ecommerce metrics.  

• Experience with back-end 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.