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Principal Product Manager - Data Platforms
Job Id: R0000446782
The pay range is $149,000.00 - $268,000.00
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:
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About this role:
The Enterprise Data Platform team has a unique role in powering the enterprise’s data strategy, including data ingestion, governed data products, analytics, and AI.
As a Principal Product Manager focused on our modern Data Platform, you will be responsible for setting and evolving the enterprise vision, strategy, and multi-year direction for the modern data ecosystem, translating enterprise and tech priorities into an integrated data platform strategy and investment roadmap. This includes ensuring the platform provides the trusted, scalable, and governed foundation required for the enterprise’s AI and agentic strategies.
You will serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, framing platform opportunities, investment choices, enterprise dependencies, and key trade-offs to enable informed decision-making and orchestrate large-scale initiatives spanning numerous upstream and downstream teams.
You will partner with capability Product Managers to shape an integrated platform portfolio, resolve cross-product priorities and trade-offs, and ensure individual strategies and roadmaps collectively advance quarterly, annual, and multi-year platform outcomes.
As you drive enterprise platform outcomes, you will:
- Own the holistic modern data platform strategy and multi-year direction, translating enterprise priorities into an integrated investment roadmap and securing alignment across senior leaders, platform teams, and key stakeholders.
- Represent the platform strategy with senior executives and enterprise stakeholders, clearly communicating progress, strategic choices, risks, dependencies, investment needs, and expected business outcomes through written narratives and executive forums.
- Define and maintain platform-level measures of success, connecting platform investments to adoption, reliability, developer and user experience, cost efficiency, speed to insight, data trust, and enterprise business value.
- Lead continuous discovery across platform consumers, business stakeholders, engineering partners, and the external market to identify enterprise needs, validate strategic assumptions, and shape platform outcomes and investment priorities.
- Orchestrate cross-functional strategy and roadmap alignment across platform teams and critical enterprise partners, including infrastructure, security, architecture, governance, and AI, resolving competing priorities and complex dependencies when needed.
- Establish trusted strategic partnerships with leaders across data product management, data governance, data engineering, data science, analytics, architecture, and AI to shape shared priorities and drive enterprise-wide outcomes.
- Mentor and coach Product Managers across the platform, raising the quality of product strategy, discovery, prioritization, outcome definition, and executive communication while helping individuals maximize their impact.
- Maintain an informed perspective on the evolving data, analytics, AI, and agentic technology landscape; engage internal and external experts; and translate relevant developments into strategic recommendations, investment decisions, and adjustments to the platform strategy.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
You are an enterprise product strategist who can operate between long-term vision, complex technical considerations, executive-level decisions, and the practical realities of platform delivery.
You operate with a strong ownership mindset and can work proactively to identify, address, and rally teams around critical needs before they become issues. You can work independently and influence others throughout the organization without direct authority. You naturally empower product, engineering, and UX teams by creating clarity and focus for them to operate in. You are a natural collaborator, fostering great ideas through empowerment of the teams and team members around you. You balance urgency with sound judgment, creating momentum while ensuring consequential platform decisions are grounded in clear evidence, strategic context, and long-term enterprise value.
Required qualifications
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of product management experience, or equivalent strategic leadership experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, site reliability engineering, or data platforms
- Demonstrated experience advising and influencing Senior Director, VP, or comparable executive-level stakeholders on strategy, investments, priorities, and trade-offs.
- Proven experience shaping enterprise technology strategy or leading transformation across multiple products, capabilities, or teams within a complex enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and align diverse stakeholders
- Proven track record of building strong relationships with platform consumers, engineering teams, and senior leaders
- Experience developing enterprise platform strategies that balance user needs, technical sustainability, security, governance, cost, and business value.
- Experience evaluating build, buy, partner, and modernization decisions for enterprise data or technology platforms.
- Experience defining and translating platform capabilities into enterprise outcomes and impact measures, including platform adoption, value, reliability, cost-efficiency, and developer-experience.
- Working knowledge of data platforms, including tools for data engineering, data governance, analytics and AI tools.
- Understanding of cloud-native data platforms (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks), distributed data systems, analytics best practices, data engineering best practices, and data management/governance best practices
- Familiarity with cost management, capacity planning, and operational excellence practices in large-scale data environments
- Experience or demonstrated aptitude with AI and agentic systems, especially as it applies to data, analysis and insights
- Strong ability to work in an agile, collaborative and matrixed environment
- Excellent verbal and written 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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Competitive benefits
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Health and well-being
Target offers comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans. Plus, get free 24/7 virtual care and mental health support.
Financial well-being
Your financial future is bright with TGT 401(k) offering 5% eligible contribution matching and more discount and reimbursement programs.
Paid time off
Target encourages work-life balance by offering seven paid holidays, paid sick time, paid family leave, and a flexible paid time off plan that doesn’t require time tracking (unless in a location where it is legally required).
Education assistance
Target's industry-leading education assistance benefit, Dream to Be, offers tuition-free programs to support your growth.
Market-leading pay
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Team members get a 10% discount at all Target stores and Target.com, along with 20% off wellness products and 20% off adult owned-brand apparel and accessories. Plus, get an additional 5% savings with a Target Circle Card.
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