Senior Product Manager - API Gateway Services

Job Id: R0000382775

The pay range is $113,000.00 - $203,000.00

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API Gateway Sr Product Manager

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.

Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com, 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 4,000 engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches 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.

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.

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, data scientists and business partners to deliver the 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.

Enterprise API Gateway Services plays a significant role in enabling business functionality with an API-first approach for all Target developers in Digital and B2B platforms and other key functions, such as supply chain and merchandising. Our Gateway Services platform provides centrally managed capabilities for developers to meet operational and security requirements. The capabilities include Internal/external/secure API Gateway, API Catalog, Service Mesh, Content Delivery Network (CDN), and API Synthetic testing tool. The ideal candidate for this role is passionate about technology and internal developer customers and is comfortable in conversation with engineering teams and stakeholders ranging from Cybersecurity to senior business leaders.

As a Senior Product Manager for Gateway Services, you’ll take the lead as you…

• Create and drive API management platform product strategy, balancing developer experience with security and operations. Maintain the product roadmap and prioritize features to deliver maximum value.
• Drive and integrate broader developer experience (through a centralized platform)
• Drive requirements for API compliance and validation
• Guide API management best practice and governance
• Define objectives and key results (OKRs) for Gateway services. Monitor and analyze product performance and user satisfaction. Make data driven decisions to drive value and optimize products.
• Define the cohesive voice of customers to the engineering team
• Promote new product capabilities for better value leverage and faster customer adoption
• Represent Gateway services team to extended stakeholders and leadership on product value proposition

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of platform product management experience or equivalent domain experience, preferably managing APIs/Gateways
• Advanced knowledge with API management, application integration, and platform engineering
• 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)
• Ability to lead a body of work with cross-functional partners
• Strong communication skills

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.

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