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.
As we accelerate our enterprise AI and automation strategy, we are investing in intelligent platforms that bridge the physical and digital worlds, enabling better decisions, greater operational efficiency, and new AI-powered capabilities across the enterprise.
Team overview:
The Automation Platform team is building the next generation of intelligence platforms that transform how Target understands, operates, and optimizes its physical environments. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the discovery, strategy, and execution of Target's Operational Digital Twin platform.
Role overview:
As the Sr Product Manager for Operational Digital Twin and Decision Intelligence, you will own the product vision, strategy, discovery, and execution for a new platform capability that helps Target understand, optimize, and automate physical operations.
At the core of this capability is an Operational Digital Twin—a dynamic digital representation of Target's stores, supply chain facilities, assets, inventory, equipment, and workflows. By integrating signals from IoT devices, sensors, computer vision systems, enterprise applications, and operational technologies, the platform provides near real-time visibility into operational performance and generates intelligence that improves decision making.
Your mission is to transform operational signals into operational intelligence and decision intelligence that improve efficiency, execution, and business outcomes across Target's physical operations.
Your initial focus will be to define the North Star vision, identify and validate high-value use cases, launch pilot solutions, and establish the platform foundation required to scale from 0→1 incubation to enterprise adoption.
Strategic Context
This role contributes to four strategic outcomes:
Operational Digital Twin – Creating a digital representation of physical operations.
Operational Intelligence – Understanding what is happening across operations.
Decision Intelligence – Improving operational decisions through data and AI.
Autonomous Operations – Enabling increasingly AI-assisted operational workflows.
What You'll Do
Define Product Strategy and Roadmap
Define and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Target's Operational Digital Twin platform.
Establish the North Star vision and multi-year roadmap for Operational Intelligence and Decision Intelligence capabilities.
Drive investments that improve operational efficiency, decision quality, and business outcomes.
Partner with stakeholders across Stores, Supply Chain, Asset Protection, Facilities, Operations, and Technology to prioritize opportunities.
Discover, Validate, and Deliver
Evaluate Digital Twin, IoT, Computer Vision, Spatial Intelligence, and AI technologies to identify opportunities relevant to Target.
Conduct customer discovery, operational observations, and data analysis to identify and validate high-value use cases.
Develop business cases, pilot proposals, and investment recommendations.
Launch pilots and proof-of-concepts that demonstrate measurable business value.
Define and deliver foundational platform capabilities that create a unified view of assets, facilities, inventory, equipment, and operational workflows.
Build Operational and Decision Intelligence
Transform operational signals into actionable insights, recommendations, and decision support capabilities.
Partner with engineering, AI/ML, computer vision, IoT, and data science teams to build scalable intelligence services.
Develop capabilities that identify operational risks, inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
Improve the speed, consistency, and quality of operational decision making.
Establish the foundation for future AI-assisted and autonomous operational workflows.
Lead Cross-Functional Execution
Own product prioritization, roadmap planning, and execution.
Collaborate closely with engineering, data science, UX, security, privacy, and enterprise architecture teams.
Ensure solutions meet Target standards for governance, privacy, security, and responsible AI.
Drive stakeholder alignment, product adoption, and measurable business impact.
Success Measures
Discovery & Platform Growth
High-value use cases identified and validated.
Business cases approved for investment.
Successful pilots launched and expanded.
Growth in operational assets, environments, and data sources connected to the platform.
Operational Digital Twin Impact
Increased visibility into operational performance across stores and supply chain facilities.
Creation of reusable Digital Twin models and intelligence capabilities.
Identification of operational bottlenecks, risks, and optimization opportunities.
Decision Intelligence Impact
Improved speed and quality of operational decisions.
Adoption of predictive insights and recommendation capabilities.
Measurable business value generated through intelligence-driven recommendations.
Expansion of AI-assisted operational workflows.
About You:
10+ years of Product Management experience building enterprise software, platforms, AI products, analytics solutions, operational technologies, or data-driven products.
Demonstrated success leading 0→1 product discovery and bringing new platform capabilities to market.
Experience conducting customer discovery, opportunity assessment, and strategic product planning.
Experience partnering with engineering, AI/ML, computer vision, IoT, data science, and analytics teams.
Strong understanding of operational systems, supply chain operations, store operations, industrial technologies, or enterprise platforms.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills.
Strong analytical, customer-centric, and strategic thinking capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Operational Digital Twins, Operational Intelligence, IoT platforms, Computer Vision, Spatial Intelligence, Decision Intelligence, or Industrial AI solutions.
Experience evaluating vendors, emerging technologies, and platform ecosystems.
Experience leading proof-of-concept and pilot initiatives.
Experience building platform products in large-scale enterprise environments.
Why Join Us
This is an opportunity to own a strategic product area that will shape how Target understands and operates its physical world.
You will define the vision, validate the opportunities, and build the foundation for Target's Operational Digital Twin platform. The capabilities you create will help teams understand operations in real time, make better decisions, and enable the next generation of AI-assisted operational experiences.
The platform you build will transform operational signals into decision intelligence, helping Target become a more intelligent, predictive, and AI-enabled enterprise.
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
- 10+ years Product Management experience building enterprise software, platforms, AI products, analytics solutions, operational technologies, or data-driven products.
- Demonstrated success leading 0->1 product discovery and bringing new platform capabilities to market.
- Experience conducting customer discovery, opportunity assessment, and strategic product planning.
- Experience partnering with engineering, AI/ML, computer vision, IoT, data science, and analytics teams.
- Strong understanding of operational systems, supply chain operations, store operations, industrial technologies, or enterprise platforms.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills.
- Strong analytical, customer-centric, and strategic thinking capabilities.
- Experience with Operational Digital Twins, Operational Intelligence, IoT platforms, Computer Vision, Spatial Intelligence, Decision Intelligence, or Industrial AI solutions.
- Experience evaluating vendors, emerging technologies, and platform ecosystems.
- Experience leading proof-of-concept and pilot initiatives.
- Experience building platform products in large-scale enterprise environments.
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.
