Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Target is a leading retail company focused on helping families discover the joy of everyday life. They are seeking a Director of Product Management for their Customer Data Platform to set the strategic vision, oversee product financials, and lead a team of product owners in driving innovation and efficiency across their marketing technology initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Set the overall strategic vision for your product space and product team
- Accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics
- Set and manage the product’s budget and financials
- Set the short- and long-term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
- Create interoperability across CDP, upstream data sources, downstream campaign and activation systems, and external partner networks
- Ensure the platform meets Target’s standards for reliability, usability, modern architecture, and enterprise scale
- Build, coach, and mentor a strong team of product owners
- Build a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product teams
- Elevate the collective team’s performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback to all roles on the team
- Work with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution related barriers for your teams
- Drive product discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering time
- Lead highly complex work across multiple pyramids, with interrelated specialties
- 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
Skills
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of product management experience
- Experience building and scaling data platforms in martech/adtech, audience platforms, or personalization
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing product teams while fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and enterprise collaboration
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with engineering, data science, and architecture teams to develop scalable, cloud-native, near–real time pipelines and high-reliability systems
- Strong communication skills with a proven track record influencing senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across large enterprise organizations
- Expert in agile product development (e.g., user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas) with experience shaping complex, multi-pyramid initiatives
- Strategic mindset and bias for action with a strong ability to define OKRs, drive measurable outcomes, and lead product discovery using data-driven decision making
- Experience delivering AI-powered and agentic automation capabilities, including decision engines, and end-to-end workflow automation
- Proven success driving platform modernization - including cloud migration, real-time analytics, data quality frameworks, governance, and privacy-forward design
- Strong ability to build relationships and align diverse teams across Marketing, Digital, Retail Media, Engineering, and external media & technology partners
Benefits
- Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.
- Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.
- This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs.
- A Remote work arrangement means the team member worksfull-time from home oran alternatelocation that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year.
- A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day.
- Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
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