Director Product Management - Developer Platform

Target • Brooklyn Park, NC

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

In this role, you will lead the Developer Platform product management team, shaping the strategy and roadmap for Target’s internal developer ecosystem and cloud and compute platforms. You will own products that power how engineers build, deploy, and operate software at scale, including developer experience, self-service platform capabilities, application runtime environments, and cloud and compute infrastructure. This includes driving improvements in developer productivity, platform adoption, reliability, scalability, and governance, while enabling teams to seamlessly build and run applications across environments. A key focus of this role is simplifying and standardizing how engineering teams interact with infrastructure through intuitive, self-service experiences and AI-powered automation. You will help evolve Target’s platform capabilities to support modern engineering practices, accelerate delivery, and enable intelligent, resilient systems. This role requires deep partnership across infrastructure, cybersecurity, engineering, UX, data, and operations teams, along with close collaboration with business and technology leaders. We are looking for a strategic, product-oriented leader who can translate complex technical domains into clear product strategies and deliver measurable outcomes in a highly interconnected environment. 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 be accountable for building, coaching, and mentoring a strong team of product managers while also building a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across p roduct teams. You will be responsible for elevat ing 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. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• 4-year college degree (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of product management experience, including significant experience leading platform, infrastructure, or developer product teams
• Experience owning strategy and outcomes for internal platforms such as developer tooling, cloud platforms, CI/CD, observability, or enterprise infrastructure products
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing product teams while fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and enterprise collaboration
• Expert in agile product development (e.g., discovery, user stories, iterative development) with experience shaping complex, multi-pyramid initiatives
• Strategic mindset and bias for action with a strong ability to define OKRs, drive measurable outcomes, and lead data-informed product discovery and delivery
• Experience delivering AI-powered platform capabilities, intelligent automation, or developer productivity solutions
• Strong ability to build relationships and align teams across Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Product Engineering, UX, Data, and Technology partners

Responsibilities

• Lead the Developer Platform product management team, shaping strategy and roadmap for Target’s internal developer ecosystem and cloud and compute platforms.
• Own products that power how engineers build, deploy, and operate software at scale, including developer experience, self-service platform capabilities, application runtime environments, and cloud and compute infrastructure.
• Drive improvements in developer productivity, platform adoption, reliability, scalability, and governance.
• Enable teams to seamlessly build and run applications across environments.
• Simplify and standardize how engineering teams interact with infrastructure through intuitive, self-service experiences and AI-powered automation.
• Evolve Target’s platform capabilities to support modern engineering practices, accelerate delivery, and enable intelligent, resilient systems.
• Partner across infrastructure, cybersecurity, engineering, UX, data, and operations teams, along with business and technology leaders.
• Set the overall strategic vision for the product space and product team.
• Be accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics.
• Set and manage the product’s budget and financials.
• Set short and long-term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Build, coach, and mentor a strong team of product managers.
• Build a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency.
• Elevate the collective team’s performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback.
• Work with senior leadership and peers to negotiate and remove execution-related barriers for teams.
• Drive product discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers.
• Lead highly complex work across multiple pyramids, with interrelated specialties.
• Leverage data and analytics to provide competitive analysis, drive decision making, assess product health and effectiveness, and deliver recommendations.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs (medical, vision, dental, life insurance)
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Associate degree