Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. 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. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About us:
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.
The Customer Data Platform (CDP) Product team is a global organization within Marketing that builds Target’s next generation connected enterprise and guest experience platforms, unifying guest data and enabling AI-first, real-time personalization at scale. We drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap that fuel growth and transform guest experiences through a modern, human-centered, uniquely Target approach.
The Enterprise Audience Platform (EAP) is Target’s next-generation capability enabling unified audience creation, segmentation, activation, and measurement across the enterprise. Within Target’s Customer Data Platform (CDP), EAP powers onsite/app personalization, drives retail media marketing efficiency, enables performance marketing reach, accelerates incremental contribution, and enables enterprise teams to act on real-time, connected guest insights. The platform integrates upstream identity and guest data, CDP pipelines, real-time computation, audience decisioning engines, and downstream activation channels across Target’s marketing and media ecosystem.
As a Product Director, you will set the overall strategic vision for your product space and product team, are accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics, will set and manage the product’s budget and financials, set the short- and long-term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). You will create interoperability across CDP, upstream data sources, downstream campaign and activation systems, and external partner networks. By guiding strategy, financials, discovery, and execution, this leader ensures the platform meets Target’s standards for reliability, usability, modern architecture, and enterprise scale.
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.
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 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 Eligibility
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In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
Application deadline is : 10/30/2026Skills Required
- 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
- Experience collaborating with engineering, data science, and architecture teams on scalable cloud-native, near-real-time pipelines and high-reliability systems
- Strong communication skills and experience influencing senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders in large enterprises
- Expertise in agile product development, including user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, and personas
- Strategic mindset with ability to define OKRs, drive measurable outcomes, and lead data-driven product discovery
- Experience delivering AI-powered and agentic automation capabilities, decision engines, and end-to-end workflow automation
- Experience driving platform modernization, cloud migration, real-time analytics, data quality, governance, and privacy-forward design
- Ability to build relationships and align teams across Marketing, Digital, Retail Media, Engineering, and external media and technology partners
Target Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Target and has not been reviewed or approved by Target.
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Healthcare Strength — Health benefits are accessible to hourly team members at relatively low hour thresholds and include no‑cost, 24/7 virtual medical care and expanded mental‑health support. This breadth is positioned as a relative strength compared to typical retail offerings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match with immediate vesting and options like Roth 401(k) and stock purchase. These features strengthen long‑term savings for a wide range of roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support includes paid family leave, backup care, and reimbursements for adoption and surrogacy. These resources complement paid time off and holidays for eligible team members.
Target Insights
What We Do
Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more. Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.
