Director Product Management - Enterprise Data Strategy

Job Id: R0000478841

Director Product Management, Enterprise Data Strategy

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. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse 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.

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 diverse backgrounds. We believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful. At Target, inclusion is part of the core value. We aim to create equitable experiences for all, regardless of their dimensions of difference. As an equal opportunity employer, Target provides diverse opportunities for everyone to grow and win.

Target Tech creates and operates the tools, technology, science, and systems that enable every part of Target’s business and creates compelling and joyful experiences for our team members and guests. Our success is rooted in our diverse and talented team employing architectural discipline, agile execution, innovation, and operational excellence. While we create new capabilities to drive engagement, efficiency, and growth, we also prioritize investing in our technology ecosystem to keep it reliable, performant, and secure. We believe empowering our team to solve problems, fostering continuous learning and innovation, and building strong team connections are essential to delivering meaningful outcomes.

Team Overview

The Enterprise Data Strategy team leads Target’s transformation into a modern, data-driven enterprise by establishing a unified vision, strategic priorities, and roadmap for unlocking the full value of data. The team drives alignment across business, product, and technology partners to modernize data platforms, strengthen governance, simplify access, and accelerate actionable insights and recommendations. Through enterprise-wide operating models, shared standards, and coordinated investments, the team enables trusted, scalable, and AI-ready data capabilities that improve how decisions are made. Ultimately, the team focuses on turning data into a strategic advantage that drives business growth, operational efficiency, and differentiated experiences for guests and team members.

Position Overview

As a Product Director, you will set the overall strategic vision for the Supply Chain data products and product team, are accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics, will set and manage the product’s budget and financials, set the short- and long-term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

You will be accountable for building, coaching, and mentoring a strong team of product managers while also building a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product teams.  You will be responsible to elevate your collective team’s performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback to all roles on the team while also working with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution related barriers for your teams.

You will drive product discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering time, as you lead highly complex work across multiple pyramids, with interrelated specialties.  You will leverage data and analytics to provide competitive analysis, drive decision making, assess the health and effectiveness of your products and related P&L impacts, and to deliver recommendations to key stakeholders. 

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

About you: 

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience

• 10+ years of product management experience or equivalent domain experience, preferably in data products or supply chain products.

• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams

• Strong communication skills and proven ability to influence both at a strategic leadership level and cross functionally

• Expert at working in the agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)

• Strategic mindset and bias for action with strong ability for strategic planning, defining OKRs and driving business outcomes

• Ability to lead and influence a team while fostering relationships across multiple enterprise-wide teams

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Life at Target- https://india.target.com/

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Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/diversity-and-inclusion

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• Life at Target: https://india.target.com/

• Benefits: https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits

• Culture: https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging

• Target Tech: https://tech.target.com/