Sr Data Analyst (Remote Eligible)

Job Id: R0000430512

The pay range is $88,000.00 - $158,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

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.

Target Assets Protection

One of the world’s leading and most recognized brands requires an industry-leading Asset Protection team who ensures the safety and security of our team, guests, store and merchandise. We use preventive techniques to maintain a comfortable, safe and secure environment, whether within our stores, our headquarters or our distribution centers. You'll promote a culture of mindfulness around safety and security, while preventing and responding to incidents that fall within our many areas of expertise.

Assets Protection Data Insights team rapidly develops and deploys new innovations to improve existing processes and enable new capabilities that drive productivity, create a great Guest and Team Member experience. We are looking for exceptional people who are proactive, creative, independent, innovative, practical, and comfortable with ambiguity. Are you a critical thinker who seeks the root cause and can analyze both qualitatively and quantitatively? Are you a creative problem-solver who simplifies problems, quickly identifies solutions, and can build and execute effective plans to address? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.

The Assets Protection Data Insights team leverages business experience, thought leadership, and analytical acumen to elevate problem solving for Stores & Supply Chain. The team provides an ideal opportunity to work within a highly collaborative team managing complex solutions. A role on our team means being central to the innovation within Target Stores. You’ll be working in a dynamic and challenging environment where new technologies are deployed constantly, and processes are evolving quickly as these operations mature. Here, you’ll leverage data, statistics, visualizations and predictions to create actionable insights that deliver value across all Target functions. Our savvy reporting and analytics pros use market-leading tools and data automation to make a positive impact that’s felt across the business.

Primary Function:

As a Sr. Data Analyst, you’ll be part of a team of analysts supporting Target Stores through active exploration of data, experimentation, and advanced analytics. You will apply statistical methods, A/B testing frameworks, and machine learning techniques to generate actionable business insights—enabling the development of scalable metrics, predictive models, and decision tools. A critical part of your role is designing and evaluating experiments (e.g., A/B and multivariate tests), establishing measurement strategies, validating causal impact, and translating results into clear recommendations for business partners.

You will share insights through structured communication with end users, gather feedback, and iterate through test-and-learn cycles in partnership with stakeholders. Along the way, you will apply best practices in analytics and ML development by delivering well-documented, reproducible solutions (including model documentation, assumptions, and performance monitoring) and continuously upskilling on emerging tools and technologies with a continuous improvement mindset. In addition, you will actively participate in team meetings and contribute to agile ceremonies, supporting rapid delivery and continuous refinement of analytical products.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

· Perform advanced statistical analysis

· Lead A/B testing and experimentation: hypothesis → design → measurement → analysis → decisioning.

· Build predictive models that forecast outcomes and optimize store/business performance.

· Apply causal inference methods when randomized tests aren’t possible.

· Ensure statistical rigor, data quality, peer review, and reproducible workflows.

· Evaluate and monitor model performance & stability

· Partner with stakeholders to operationalize learnings and scale proven improvements.

· Contribute to agile ceremonies and continuous improvement of analytics practices.

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ year as a Data Analyst with strong academic performance in a quantitative field; or strong equivalent experience
• Advanced SQL experience writing complex queries
• Competent and experienced in leveraging Python and R for analytical workflows
• Solid problem solving, analytical skills, data curiosity, data mining, Data creation and consolidation
• Support conclusions with a clear, understandable story that leverages descriptive statistics, basic inferential statistics, and data visualizations
• Willingness to ask questions about business objectives and the measurement needs for a project workstream, and be able to measure objectives & key results
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to speak to both business and technical teams, and translate ideas between them
• Knowledge of AB Testing methods, time series, Forecasting models including statistical analysis
• Experience in analytics tools such as: SQL, Excel, Hive, Spark, Python, R, Power BI, and/or equivalent technologies

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs.  A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year.  A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location 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.

Benefits Eligibility

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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 candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.  

Application deadline is : 03/05/2026