Product Manager - Club Target Creator Program 

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.

Right along with Target’s distinctive retail brand, we are constantly improving and innovating our digital shopping experience. Are you ready to excel in the fast-changing retail environment? Are you a customer service enthusiast who’s curious about the guest and can see the shopping journey through their eyes? Then you’ll have success on the Digital Strategy & Platform team, whose goal is to offer guests a seamless online shopping experience across our platforms—including Target.com and the store network’s fulfillment capabilities. Here, you’ll collaborate to create and implement the digital strategies that enrich the online experience through the right mix of personalization, simplicity and intuitiveness. Your ideas will support Target in complementing the beloved in-store shopping interaction with a convenient, reliable and instantly gratifying digital experience.

Product Teams at Target Corporation 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 and design work.

Within Social Commerce, we are redefining how creators influence discovery, engagement, and purchase across both onsite and offsite channels. Club Target is a foundational product within this ecosystem, designed to foster direct relationships with creators, generate high-quality user-generated content (UGC), and drive measurable business impact through social commerce. We are seeking a Product Manager to support the growth and evolution of the Club Target Creator Program by delivering measurable business outcomes through strong product execution.

As a Product Manager, you will work in the product model and will collaborate with your product team and key stakeholders to develop a plan and business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product. You will need to build a strong knowledge of your product through product discovery to collect customer feedback and work to collect other relevant data points that explain the value and help you prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product. You will work in unison with engineers, UX designers, data scientists and business partners to deliver a product.

You will be the “voice of the product” with your product team and stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met, and you will be responsible to maintain and refine the product backlog (create user stories & acceptance criteria) 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 sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

What You’ll Do:

• Own and manage the product backlog for a defined area of Club Target ensuring alignment to product strategy and OKRs
• Translate product strategy into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements for your product area
• Partner with external engineering and product partners to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions
• Track and analyze product performance against business impact and metrics to inform prioritization
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including operations/support, communications, marketing, and program management
• Deeply understand the creator journey from onboarding to activation and retention
• Communicate product priorities, progress, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders
• Contribute insights and recommendations to inform ongoing product improvements and roadmap decisions

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of product management experience or equivalent domain expertise, ideally with direct experience in creator platforms and additional exposure to social commerce or ecommerce platforms, affiliate systems, and/or user generated content ecosystems
• Familiarity with content workflows
• Experience working with external vendors and strong partnership management
• Familiarity with content workflows
• Technical aptitude
• Experience working in an agile environment
• 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.