About us:

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.

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. 

About the Job:

As Sr Product Manager for Grouper, you will be instrumental in bringing to life item groups across our Digital and Physical channels curating Item Bundles, Add-Ons, Shoppable Collections, and Variations. This role will require you to lead the product identifying item grouping opportunities, connect & influence multi-functional teams across Digital, Stores, Supply Chain etc., define product – technology vision, strategy and roadmap, work with data sciences and technology teams to build capabilities that drive guest engagement and sales. 

We are looking for someone with strong demonstrable B2C ecommerce product management experience having worked on strategies & execution building backend capabilities & frontend experience leveraging item groups to drive Cross Sell & Up Sell with focus on top of the funnel customer experience. Proven experience in roadmap planning, defining, and tracking success metrics, writing business case, ability to tell the story and establish rapport, credibility, and influence in a highly cross-functional, matrix organization across geographies. Experience solving big data problems & machine learning will be an advantage.

Product Teams at Target are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable.  

As a Sr Product Manager, you will work in the product model and will partner to develop a comprehensive product strategy, related roadmap, and set key business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product.  You will need to leverage the knowledge of your product, as well as customer feedback and establish other relevant data points to assess value, develop business cases, and prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product. You will lead a product and work in unison with engineers, UX designers, data scientists and business partners to deliver a product. 

You will be the “voice of the product” to key stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met, and that the product team is getting the direction and support that it needs to be successful. You will develop and actively understand the market, maintain a product roadmap and backlog outlining the customer themes, epics, and stories 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, and partner with product teams across the organization to help them achieve their goals while pursuing and completing yours. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.  

About you: 

• 4-year college degree (or equivalent experience) 

• 10+ years of retail experience or equivalent domain experience with at least 5+ years in B2C ecommerce Product Management

• Proven experience working on strategies & execution in grouping items to drive Cross Sell & Up Sell with focus on top of the funnel customer experience.

• Demonstrable experience working on backend capabilities & frontend top of the funnel customer experience.

• Experience solving big data problems & machine learning will be an advantage.

• Self-driven, strong communication & influencing skills with proven ability to lead & influence highly cross functional, matrix organization across geographies.

• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g., user stories, personas, iterative development, scrum teams)