Director of Product, Data Platform (Remote/Hybrid)

Target Corp; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Employee discount

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

Target Corp is seeking a Director of Product Management for the Customer Data Platform (CDP) to lead a global team and shape vision, strategy, and roadmaps enabling real-time personalization and unified audience insights. You will own budgets, define OKRs, and partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Architecture to deliver scalable cloud-native pipelines.

You will partner with Marketing, Retail Media, and external partners to drive enterprise-wide data initiatives, governance, and

Qualifications

• 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)
• 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

Responsibilities

• Set the overall strategic vision for the product space and product team
• Be accountable for success against business outcomes and metrics
• Manage the product budget and financials, and define short- and long-term goals and OKRs
• Create interoperability across CDP, upstream/downstream systems and external partners
• Guide strategy, discovery, and execution to meet Target's reliability, usability, and enterprise-scale standards
• Build and mentor a high-performing product team and foster a culture of transparency and accountability
• Drive product discovery with stakeholders and validate hypotheses with customers
• Use data and analytics for competitive analysis and data-driven decision making
• Deliver AI-powered automation capabilities and real-time analytics with governance and privacy considerations
• Lead modernization efforts including cloud migration and scalable, high-reliability platforms

Job description

Target Corp is seeking a Director of Product Management for the Customer Data Platform (CDP) to lead a global team and shape vision, strategy, and roadmaps enabling real-time personalization and unified audience insights. You will own budgets, define OKRs, and partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Architecture to deliver scalable cloud-native pipelines.

You will partner with Marketing, Retail Media, and external partners to drive enterprise-wide data initiatives, governance, and