Jobs at Target

Design and build platform services for an agentic analytics layer connecting users and agents to governed analytical data. Work spans agent orchestration, data and metadata access, semantic models, evaluation, observability, security, and production reliability in a collaborative engineering environment.

Leads financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis for more than $500 million in store non-payroll expenses. Partners with store operations, accounting, procurement, and field teams to identify savings, improve accountability, and support strategic decisions. Develops financial models and reporting for forecasts, annual goals, long-range planning, and monthly reviews. Serves as a resource for store financial data, planning processes, and issue resolution.

Design future-focused, multi-touchpoint guest experiences using service design, journey mapping, prototyping, and systems thinking. Collaborate with product, engineering, marketing, stores, and strategy teams to translate insights and business opportunities into scalable, inclusive experiences. Create journey maps, blueprints, storyboards, flows, wireframes, and prototypes while applying qualitative and quantitative data to guide decisions.

Lead accessibility efforts across web and app development, applying WCAG 2.2 AA throughout discovery, design, engineering, testing, and regression. Perform accessibility testing with keyboards and screen readers, collaborate with cross-functional product teams, conduct research, analyze data, influence stakeholders, and drive inclusive digital experience improvements for customers and employees with disabilities.

Develop financial analytics supporting merchandising vendor negotiations, providing vendor- and category-level insights for annual negotiations and in-season performance. Partner with merchandise, planning, business partner, and negotiations teams, while delivering ad hoc decision support for strategic initiatives and special projects.

Lead technical architecture and delivery for product teams: design scalable distributed systems, set standards and best practices, drive automation, testing, and disaster recovery planning, optimize performance and data lifecycle management, lead implementation and technical decision-making, and mentor engineers.

Design end-to-end loyalty experiences across digital and in-store touchpoints, including membership, rewards, personalization, and engagement. Lead discovery, ideation, prototyping, testing, and production delivery while applying user research, data insights, accessibility, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, and business partners to solve complex product challenges, improve guest experiences, and advance human-centered UX practices.

Build and operate scalable AI context and knowledge platforms, including retrieval services, semantic and hybrid search, RAG, memory systems, ingestion pipelines, indexing, and context orchestration. Develop secure distributed services on Kubernetes, monitor retrieval quality and system health, evaluate emerging AI technologies, troubleshoot complex production issues, and provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration.

Build and support a developer platform that generates configured codebases, integrates infrastructure, and enables AI-assisted developer workflows. Design scalable full-stack services using Kotlin, Python, and TypeScript; develop REST APIs; manage distributed systems and relational databases; lead architecture, testing, code reviews, incident resolution, disaster recovery, and technology evaluations. Provide technical oversight, coach engineers, and contribute to platform strategy and roadmap execution.

Leads architecture, development, testing, release, and support of native iOS features for Target’s Reorder and Buy It Again experience. Develops scalable Swift applications using SwiftUI, UIKit, and TCA; drives technical decisions, performance, observability, and reliability improvements; coordinates cross-team delivery; and mentors engineers. Partners with Product, UX, backend, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver intuitive, high-quality mobile experiences.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications for indirect procurement workflows. Build React and TypeScript user interfaces, Java/Kotlin backend microservices, and RESTful APIs. Work with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and Redis for persistence, search, caching, and event-driven integrations. Lead architecture, code reviews, testing, debugging, disaster recovery, data quality, and technical decision-making while mentoring engineers and resolving complex technical issues.

Manages revenue accounting and controllership for Target’s loyalty program, partnerships, and retail revenue streams. Oversees financial close, reporting, journal entries, reconciliations, variance analysis, revenue recognition, accounting controls, and SOX compliance. Partners with Operations, Finance, Legal, and external organizations to assess complex business arrangements and provide accounting guidance. Drives process improvements through automation, standardization, technology, and analytics.

Oversee financial performance for a region of 500+ stores, supporting senior leaders with sales forecasts, payroll planning, financial modeling, productivity analysis, and strategic initiatives. Build partnerships across Stores Finance, Operations, HR, and Labor Engineering to improve financial outcomes and implement scalable regional strategies.

Leads the strategic vision, roadmap, investment priorities, budgets, and business outcomes for a product portfolio. Builds and coaches product teams, drives discovery and agile execution, aligns global and local stakeholders, and accelerates AI adoption and servicing capabilities. Uses data, analytics, and customer insights to improve product health, operational efficiency, digital adoption, and enterprise value while partnering across Product, Technology, Data, Design, and Operations.

Build and maintain Target’s scalable, multi-tenant Marketing Ad Planning platform. Develop backend services and APIs for campaign data management, validation, lifecycle operations, and enterprise integrations. Work with distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and databases while improving reliability, performance, and scalability. Participate in technical design, code reviews, troubleshooting, and engineering ceremonies, delivering reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software.

Lead product design for Target’s guest-facing Homepage and Category experiences across web and apps. Set strategy for dynamic, personalized content, establish AI design governance, and align solutions with user, business, and technical needs. Facilitate cross-functional teams, conduct research, use data and experimentation, create UX deliverables, mentor designers, and promote accessibility, systems thinking, and human-centered design.

Build reusable platform capabilities for AI applications and agents, including agent harnesses, context engineering, graph-based retrieval, statistical models, and simulation. Design scalable APIs and services, develop production-grade frameworks, ensure engineering quality through testing and documentation, and mentor engineers.

Owns end-to-end U.S. payroll operations across tax, banking, garnishments, processing, or final pay. Ensures accurate and timely pay delivery, compliance, audit readiness, issue resolution, reconciliations, and SLA performance. Leads root-cause analysis, corrective actions, process improvements, reporting, governance, training, and coaching while partnering with Finance, HR, headquarters teams, and vendors.

Designs and builds scalable payment data services, APIs, data pipelines, and distributed systems using Java/Kotlin, Kafka, databases, and ETL. Leads architecture, code and design reviews, testing, debugging, disaster recovery, data quality, and technology evaluations. Collaborates with payment engineering, product, and business teams to deliver secure, high-throughput solutions. Coaches engineers and explores AI technologies including LLMs, agentic AI, and MCP.

Leads discovery, strategy, validation, and MVP development for emerging advertising supply and experiences across Target-owned digital and physical properties. Defines value propositions, business cases, roadmaps, metrics, and OKRs; prioritizes product backlogs; and coordinates product, engineering, design, analytics, operations, and go-to-market teams. Identifies monetization opportunities, validates concepts, and transitions successful capabilities into long-term product portfolios.