Sr Product Manager - Data Product (GCP)

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About us:

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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. 

The Space Presentation and Transitions data product portfolio provides enterprise-scale data powering how Target plans, optimizes, and evolves physical store space. These products enable business users to design store presentations, understand the financial performance and productivity of space, and strategically plan future transitions and merchandising changes. By integrating data from multiple source domains and delivering it through governed, scalable platforms and self-service capabilities, the team empowers data-driven decision making across space planning, category management, merchandising, and store operations. Product Managers partner with engineers, source system teams, analysts, and business stakeholders to define product strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver reliable data products that create measurable business value and improve the guest experience.

Senior Product Managers in this space work with data engineers to build tables within our data cloud, designed for end-users to be able to visualize, analyze and use models against this data. The data is used to make end user decisions and drive value across the enterprise, particularly with a focus on value for merchandising teams.

As a Senior 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 a 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 degree or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of data product experience, Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of enterprise data, analytics, or data-platform products

• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams 

• Ability to bridge business objectives and technical/data requirements

• Hands-on comfort working with SQL and data to make product decisions

• Practical understanding of data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, and related enterprise data concepts

• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g., user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)

• Ability to lead a body of work with cross-functional partners

• Demonstrated ability to partner with and influence Engineering, Data Architecture, Analytics, Data Governance, and business stakeholders.

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

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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.