Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

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 Product team, whose goal is to offer guests a seamless online shopping experience across our platforms including Target.com and App along with 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 inspiration, personalization and simplicity.  Your ideas will support Target in complementing the beloved in-store shopping interaction with a convenient, reliable and instantly gratifying digital experience.

Product Teams at Target Corporation 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 and design work. 

As a Product Manager for Search, you will be responsible for enhancing the search experience on our digital platforms. Your role involves developing and implementing strategies that improve query understanding and product ranking, ensuring consumers find the most relevant and engaging content. You will leverage consumer data and insights to drive innovations that increase search relevance, efficiency, and personalization. Success in this role is measured by your ability to create a seamless and satisfying search experience that boosts guest engagement and conversion.

As a Product Manager for either of these teams, you will work in the product model and will collaborate with your product team and key stakeholders to develop a plan and business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product. You will need to build a strong knowledge of your product through product discovery to collect customer feedback and work to collect other relevant data points that explain the value and help you prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product. You will work in unison with engineers, UX designers, data scientists and business partners to deliver a product.

You will be the “voice of the product” with your product team and stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met, and you will be responsible to maintain and refine the product backlog (create user stories & acceptance criteria) 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. 

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, Data Science, AI/ML, or a related field.

• 4+ years of product management experience or equivalent domain experience, particularly in search, information retrieval, or natural language processing.

• Strong understanding of statistical methods, machine learning algorithms, and semantic understanding techniques.

• Experience working in an agile environment

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and work effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Proven ability to collaborate with engineers, UX designers, data scientists, and business stakeholders.

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performedboth onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.