Sr Product Manager - Data Platform

Target

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Sr Product Manager for their Data Platform Portfolio. The role involves collaborating with engineering teams to enhance the data platform's infrastructure and tools. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in product management, particularly in data platforms, and possesses strong communication and relationship-building skills.

Qualifications

6+ years of product management experience in Data Platforms.
Strongly prefer experience as a Data Engineer or Data Platform engineer for more than 3 years.

Responsibilities

Lead efforts to identify capabilities and features for the data platform.
Maintain and refine the product backlog while prioritizing high impact work.

Skills

Product Leadership

Proactive Communication

Agile Environment

Relationship Building

Education

Four-year degree in Computer Science Engineering

Tools

Big Data

Cloud Technologies

Job description

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.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.

Team overview:

The Data platform at Target is used by 5,000+ Target Team members and Target’s vast network of vendors to easily turn our data into a strategic advantage. Through the full end-to-end supply chain of data, from source to dashboard, we ensure each technical and non-technical person has the right tools to access, use, and communicate with data. 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.

Role overview:

As a Sr Product Manager, focused on the Data Platform Portfolio, you will be responsible for understanding the needs of our data engineering, platform engineering and ML Engineering teams. You will partner with your platform engineering teams and other PMs to build the infrastructure and the tools for a scalable, performant and reliable data platform that can power all the analytical, Data Science, AI and ML use-cases for Target. As a Product Manager for the data platform, you will be leading the efforts to identify the capabilities and features that are needed in the modern data platform,understand the consumption patterns for the data by all the personas and how would these capabilities be powered to solve the problems of the users. You will set the tone, vision, strategy, OKRs and prioritization for this capability.

You will be the “voice of the Customer” with your product team and stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met, and you will be responsible to maintain and refine the product backlog (create user stories & acceptance criteria) while prioritizing the backlog to focus on the highest impact work for your team and stakeholders. You will encourage the open exchange of information and viewpoints, as well as inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction. You will foster sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.

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 in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience
6+ years of product management experience in Data Platforms and for developer focused products.
Strongly prefer someone who has worked as a Data Engineer or as a Data Platform engineer for more than 3 years
Strong understanding of Big Data and Cloud technologies including compute, storage and query layers
Strong ability to influence others without direct authority
Strong ability to identify and build great relationships with key users, leaders, and engineering teams
Strong ability to work in an agile, collaborative and matrixed environment
Proactive communication, both verbal and written, a must
Proven track record of product leadership
Understanding of product lifecycle and product startups a plus

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