Director Product Management - Customer Data Platform

The pay range is $ - $ 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.

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is a global organization within Marketing that builds Target’s next generation connected enterprise and guest experience platforms, unifying guest data and enabling AI-first, real-time personalization  drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap that fuel growth and transform guest experiences through a modern, human-centered, uniquely Target approach.

Within Target’s Customer Data Platform (CDP), EAP powers onsite/app personalization, drives retail media marketing efficiency, enables performance marketing reach, accelerates incremental contribution, and enables enterprise teams to act on real‑time, connected guest insights. The platform integrates upstream identity and guest data, CDP pipelines, real‑time computation, audience decisioning engines, and downstream activation channels across Target’s marketing and media ecosystem.

As a Product Director, you will set the overall strategic vision for your product space 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 create interoperability across CDP, upstream data sources, downstream campaign and activation systems, and external partner networks.

By guiding strategy, financials, discovery, and execution, this leader ensures the platform meets Target’s standards for reliability, usability, modern architecture, and enterprise scale.

You will be accountable for building, coaching, and mentoring a strong team of product owners 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.

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