About us:
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is
important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.
Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com nor the app, they experience the impact of Target’s investments in technology and innovation. We’re the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.
Join our global in-house technology team of more than 5,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects and product managers striving to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guests—and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning.
Team overview:
The Authorization Solutions product within Identity and Access Management (IAM) is responsible for building and evolving the capabilities that ensure the right people have the right access to the right resources at the right time. As a foundational component of Target's Cybersecurity strategy, the team develops and enhances services that strengthen authorization governance, improve privileged access management, and automate critical operational processes supporting access reviews and entitlement management.
In this role, you will partner closely with product, engineers, architects, and cybersecurity experts to define and deliver Authorization services and capabilities. You will help shape product strategy, prioritize customer and business needs, and translate complex security and operational challenges into measurable product outcomes. Working collaboratively across global teams, you will drive the evolution of critical IAM capabilities that enhance security, improve operational efficiency, and deliver scalable solutions for Target's team members and technology platforms.
Product Teams at Target are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product, technology, discovery and design work.
Role overview:
As a Sr Product Manager, you will work in the product model and will partner to develop a comprehensive product strategy, related roadmap, and set key business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product. You will need to leverage the knowledge of your product, as well as, customer feedback and establish other relevant data points to assess value, develop business cases, and prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product. You will lead a product and work in unison with engineers, UX designers, data scientists and business partners to deliver a product.
You will be the “voice of the product” to key stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met and that the product team is getting the direction and support that it needs to be successful. You will develop and actively understand the market, maintain a product roadmap and backlog outlining the customer themes, epics, and stories while prioritizing the backlog to focus on the highest impact work for your team and stakeholders.
You will encourage the open exchange of information and viewpoints as well as inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction. You will foster sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles, and partner with product teams across the organization to help them achieve their goals while pursuing and completing yours.
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 college degree (or equivalent experience)
6+ years of Product management experience in retail or equivalent domain experience
Strong communication skills
Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
Proven ability to lead a body of work with cross functional partners
Product strategy development & implementation for platform products
Comfort operating in evolving, high-complexity spaces
Useful Links:
Life at Target- https://india.target.com/
Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits
Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/diversity-and-inclusion
Skills Required
- Four-year college degree or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of product management experience in retail or equivalent domain experience
- Strong communication skills
- Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
- Experience working in an agile environment (user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
- Proven ability to lead a body of work with cross functional partners
- Product strategy development and implementation for platform products
- Comfort operating in evolving, high-complexity spaces
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.
