Sr People Data Ops Product Manager

Job Id: R0000388954

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.

Overview about TII

At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Target Human Resources is well known for its signature ability to build the very best teams, and we infuse our work with Target’s distinctive retail brand by continuously experimenting, evolving and innovating. With the chance to positively impact nearly 350,000 people worldwide in our stores, distribution centers and headquarters, you’ll be a strategic partner to both the leaders and the team members who elevate and nurture the Target guest experience. Our dynamic, passionate and responsive team comprises specialized people-professionals from several diverse disciplines. We operate behind the scenes to create a progressive culture of value, respect, reward and professional advancement.

The People Analytics & Insights team mission is to empower a data driven approach to HR and people decisions regarding our global workforce. We are uniquely positioned to provide unbiased insights to unlock value and drive outcomes and to enable and influence HR and business strategy.

The People Analytics & Insights team

• Integrates into the business as strategic HR analytics partners and anticipates and uncovers stated or unstated needs.
• Listens and empowers team member and external stakeholder voice
• Uses our analytics expertise to test, measure, analyze, understand and answer various business questions
• Provide reporting to help inform on the current state of the business and help facilitate process at scale
• Connects our understanding across business and HR to deliver data driven products and solutions
• Provide meaningful insights and recommendations

About the Product-

Our data products fuel Target’s decision-making engine. From enterprise-wide metrics platforms to operational data assets that power predictive analytics and experimentation, our data product ecosystem helps leaders across the organization make smarter, faster, and more inclusive decisions. We are building scalable, governed, and user-centered data products that democratize insights, reduce complexity, and unlock business value.

As a Senior People Data Ops Product Manager, you will own enterprise data products and assets, such as curated data sets, semantic layers and foundational data pipelines of HR pyramid. You will drive product strategy, discovery, delivery, and evolution of these data products to ensure they meet the analytical, operational, and compliance needs of Target’s diverse user base.

About the Role

As a Senior People Data Ops Product Manager, you will work in Target’s product model and partner closely with engineers, data scientists, UX designers, governance and privacy experts, and business stakeholders to build and scale data products that deliver measurable outcomes. You will be accountable for understanding customer needs and business objectives, and translating them into a clear roadmap of capabilities that drive adoption and impact.

You will:

• Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for one or more data products, aligning with enterprise data and business priorities.
• Deeply understand your users — analysts, data scientists, engineers, and business leaders — and their data needs.
• Translate complex requirements into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and product specifications.
• Drive decisions about data sourcing, quality, access, and governance in partnership with engineering, privacy, and legal teams.
• Prioritize work in a unified backlog across discovery, design, data modeling, engineering, and testing.
• Ensure high-quality, reliable, and trusted data is accessible and usable for a variety of analytical and operational use cases.
• Evangelize the value of your data product across the enterprise and support enablement and adoption efforts.
• Use data to make decisions about your product's performance, identify improvements, and evaluate new opportunities.

About You

• Must have minimum 3 years of college degree in computer science or information technology.
• A total of 9+ years of experience in which 5+ years of product management experience, ideally with a focus on data products, platforms, or analytical tooling
• Deep understanding of data concepts: data modeling, governance, quality, privacy, and lifecycle management
• Experience delivering products in agile environments (e.g., user stories, iterative development, scrum teams)
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and communicate effectively across roles
• Demonstrated success in building products that support data consumers like analysts, engineers, and business users
• Experience working with modern data technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Hadoop, Airflow, GCP, etc.) is a plus
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills
• Willing to coach and mentor team members.

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