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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.
About the role
As a Lead Project Manager, you will lead complex, cross-functional programs that strengthen technology reliability, improve visibility and management of technical risk, and increase Target’s ability to recover critical business capabilities. You will bring strategic direction, advanced program leadership, technical and business acumen, and disciplined execution to work spanning teams and organizational levels.
This role focuses on Disaster Recovery, capability-based recovery, technical risk, and recovery validation through tabletop exercises and other evidence-based practices. You will create the program structure, governance, coordination, and visibility needed to move from application-centric documentation toward dependency-aware, executable, validated, and measurable recovery capability.
Principal duties and responsibilities
- Lead the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for Disaster Recovery, capability-based recovery, and technical risk visibility across priority Reliability programs and business capabilities.
- Connect application-level recovery planning to end-to-end business capability recovery, including objectives, dependencies, ownership, sequencing, playbooks, validation evidence, readiness, and residual risk.
- Plan and operationalize tabletop exercises and other recovery-validation activities, translating findings into prioritized, owned work with target dates, validation methods, and completion evidence.
- Establish practical governance and a shared view of known recovery and technical risks, actions, decisions, and escalation needs while keeping technical ownership with engineering teams.
- Lead complex cross-functional programs through strategy, integrated planning, delivery, and measurable outcomes, managing dependencies, resources, tradeoffs, and risk.
- Build trusted partnerships, remove roadblocks, create executive-ready reporting, and coach stakeholders to strengthen recovery planning, risk management, and execution.
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.
- Five or more years of experience leading Disaster Recovery programs, recovery planning and testing, technology resilience, or closely related work.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional programs with senior leader visibility and applying program-management practices across scope, schedule, resources, communications, dependencies, change, and risk.
- Ability to translate technical risks, recovery dependencies, and business capability impacts into clear plans, decisions, executive communications, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong facilitation, negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Ability to develop sufficient technical and operational depth to partner credibly with engineers and technical leaders and lead through ambiguity and shifting priorities.
- Experience with capability-based recovery, dependency mapping, tabletop exercises, incident recovery, or technical risk management is preferred. Relevant PMP, Disaster Recovery, business continuity, change management, agile is also preferred.
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
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.
Skills Required
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- Five or more years of experience leading Disaster Recovery programs, recovery planning and testing, technology resilience, or closely related work
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional programs with senior leader visibility
- Experience applying program-management practices across scope, schedule, resources, communications, dependencies, change, and risk
- Ability to translate technical risks, recovery dependencies, and business capability impacts into clear plans, decisions, executive communications, and measurable outcomes
- Strong facilitation, negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Ability to develop technical and operational depth to partner with engineers and technical leaders
- Experience with capability-based recovery, dependency mapping, tabletop exercises, incident recovery, or technical risk management
- Relevant PMP, Disaster Recovery, business continuity, change management, or agile certification or experience
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.
