Director Product Management – Search Relevance(Remote Or Hybrid)
Apply Now Location: 7000 Target Pkwy N, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States, 55445; job id: R0000293635job family: Technology Product Management
schedule: Full time
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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.
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.
The Target Digital Teamis 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 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.
Target is looking for a high impact Director of Product Management for the Query Understanding and Relevanceproduct group (aka Search Relevance) within its Digital Product Management organization. As a part of the Findability product group, Search Relevance makes it easy for Guests to find the answers and products they are looking for at Target.As the Product Director for Search Relevance, you own the product vision, portfolio strategy and roadmap for this team. You are directly responsible for the capabilities and models that accurately interpret what a Target Guest is searching for and delivering highly relevant results back to them.
In this highly visible position, you partner closely with user research, data engineering, data science and data analytics teams and collaborate with other Product Directors to ensure a seamless and highly relevant experience across the Search and Browse experiences. You know how to partner cross-functionally with non-technical, business owners to measure, evaluate and test into the future of a best-in-classomnichannel search experience.
As a people leader, you are responsible for managing a team of highly capable product managers of varying levels of experience to deliver outsized impact. This is a high performing teamworking in concert to identify and tune multiple factors to drive highly desirable and meaningful business results. In this capacity, you act as coach and mentor to build a strong team culture that is pragmatic in its approach to ambitious goals. You are experienced and comfortable using constructive feedback and insights to motivate the team, guiding their development and continued growth as influencers, visionaries and impact drivers.
As the Director of Product Management, you are accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics, driving alignment with all partner teams within the Digital, Marketing, Merchandising, Data Sciences, and Technology organizations. You are an excellent storyteller, able to influence without authority and distill technically complex concepts into non-technical, easily understandable elements. You are able to work with and present to team members at all levels, including senior leadership, as you negotiate and remove barriers for your team.
Additionally, you have domain expertisein semantic search, natural language processing and machine learning. You drive discovery with a test and learn approach, developing hypothesis and a robust set of capabilities to validate or disprove them overtime. You are learning obsessed with a flexible mind, and impact driven.
Ideally, you have prior digital retail experience, but more importantly you possess prior experience in a consumer software product company having worked on structured and unstructured data problems that drive material P&L impact. You understand the theoretical but live in the applied andcandrive innovative and scalable solutions across multiple pyramids within Target.
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 in computer science, mathematics or similarly technically complex field; Advanced degree preferred
10+years of experience with consumer software product management
6+ years’ experience delivering multiple AI-enabled products working closely with science and engineering teams
Highly data literate with experience managing to business outcomes
Prior experience managing search and browse related algorithms, capabilities and experiences is required.
Excellent analytical, critical thinking & problem-solving skills
Demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects at the same time, simultaneously managing working team & partners
Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as experience in presenting to a wide range and level of audiences.
Ability to lead and influence a team while fostering relationships across multiple enterprise-wide teams
PreviousDigital Retail experience preferred
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Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.
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