About us:
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company, and one of America’s leading retailers.
As Director of Technology for Legal, Risk, Compliance, Digital Trust, Safe & Secure, you will lead a complex and evolving portfolio of technology products that help protect Target, our team, and the trust of our guests. This is an opportunity to shape the next generation of technology across these critical enterprise capabilities—applying AI- native and agentic approaches where they create meaningful value, while selecting the right technology and architecture for each problem.
You will lead engineering teams, technology platforms, and external technology
partners to build secure, resilient, intelligent, and scalable solutions. Your portfolio will span custom-built products, AI-enabled capabilities, cloud platforms, and third-party SaaS solutions.
You will drive strategic initiatives, identify and adopt emerging technology practices, build a strong product culture and ways of working, and foster a high-performing team environment. This role requires close collaboration with teams across the enterprise, especially in Legal, Risk, Ethics, and Enterprise Security.
You will operate in areas where trust, security, privacy, compliance, and responsible technology practices matter deeply. You will help teams innovate quickly while applying the engineering rigor and controls appropriate to the risk and criticality of each product.
Using your skills and expertise, you’ll lead your teams toward innovative solutions and visionary objectives. As the Director of Technology, you will advocate and articulate
Target’s technology vision, create enduring products that align with business outcomes. You’ll drive change, support critical business priorities, and foster a culture emphasizing agility, continuous improvement, rapid innovation, and calculated risk-taking. Talent acquisition, development, and retention will be central to your role. You will build a diverse, high-performing team and champion a culture of collaboration, care, growth, and inclusion.
This role reports directly to the VP Engineering, Finance Tech, HR Tech, Legal &
Compliance, Safe & Secure.
About you:
• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of related experience, including 5+ years in software engineering and 5+ years in leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience leading AI-native technology strategies and delivering AI- enabled products into production, including experience evaluating where generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, automation, or traditional engineering approaches are most appropriate.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to align technical strategies with overall
business objectives
• Strong understanding of responsible AI engineering practices, including security,
privacy, data governance, model risk, observability, human oversight, and controls
appropriate for enterprise-scale AI solutions.
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical solutions effectively to non-
technical stakeholders
• Significant experience leading third-party technology ecosystems, including
evaluating SaaS and emerging technology providers, influencing supplier roadmaps,
managing technical relationships and performance, and making effective
build/buy/partner decisions.
• Experience in building and leading Agile teams that adopt modern CI/CD practices
• Experience managing global teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of effectively engaging senior leadership
Skills Required
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- 15+ years of related experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years of leadership experience
- Experience leading AI-native technology strategies and delivering AI-enabled products into production
- Experience evaluating generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, automation, and traditional engineering approaches
- Strong business acumen and ability to align technical strategies with business objectives
- Experience with responsible AI engineering, including security, privacy, data governance, model risk, observability, human oversight, and enterprise controls
- Ability to communicate complex technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience leading third-party technology ecosystems and managing SaaS and technology providers
- Experience making build, buy, and partner decisions
- Experience building and leading Agile teams using modern CI/CD practices
- Experience managing global teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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.
