Sr Product Manager

About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 350,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.  

Roundel is Target’s Retail Media Business; an advertising sell-side business built on the principles of first party data, brand safe content environments and proof that our marketing programs drive business results for our clients. We operate with the ethos of trust and transparency and that media works best when it works in everyone’s best interest. At the very root of that, Roundel is focused on building the most valued and differentiated Retail Ad Network in the industry to engage and inspire our guests, drive business growth for our clients and redefine “value” in the industry by building innovative, tech advanced, data focussed solutions and products. We are here to drive a key growth initiative for Target and to lead the industry to a better way of operating within the media marketplace. Bring your passion for this rapidly evolving environment and have a hand in delivering impactful value for this high growth area in Target.

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. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product, technology, discovery and design work.

As a Senior Product Manager in Roundel, you will have the opportunity to work in a fast pace environment to ideate and build products that enable the most exciting capabilities in the adtech space and solving at scale for some of the most complex problems in Retail Media Network by using technology and data.  You will be responsible for leading and developing a comprehensive product vision, strategy, related roadmap, set of key business objectives (OKRs) and implementation of capabilities that would allow Target to manage and optimize the usage of available ad inventory across various channels there by maximizing the value for our guests and our clients. 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 the product and work in unison with engineers, UX designers, data scientists and business partners to deliver value for the 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 a 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.

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

• 6+ years of product management experience or equivalent experience in Ad-tech domain.
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
• Experience working with data engineering and data sciences team
• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g., user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
• Ability to lead a body of work with cross-functional partners
• Ability to build clear product vision and drive the strategy successfully
• Strong communication skills

Ability to navigate through ambiguity