Director Product Management - Enterprise Protection & Legal
About The Position
As the Director of Product Management for Ethics, Legal, and Safety, you will lead the technology, product, and transformation teams that enable some of Target's most critical business functions. You will help shape how our Ethics, Legal, and Safety teams operate in an era increasingly defined by artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and evolving business needs. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, and operational excellence, driving solutions that strengthen Target's culture, uphold our legal and ethical responsibilities, and protect our team members, guests, and communities. Through your leadership, you will help modernize core business processes, unlock new ways of working, and advance capabilities that support Target's reputation as a trusted employer, responsible corporate citizen, and industry leader. 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 owners while also building a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product teams. You will be responsible to elevate 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. It will be critical that you understand retail or similar areas, relevant technologies and design principles to drive 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.
Requirements
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of product management experience
- Domain experience in legal, ethics, safety, risk, or reputation management
- Led and influenced a product team while fostering relationships across multiple enterprise-wide teams
- Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
- Strong communication skills and proven ability to influence both at a strategic leadership level and cross functionally
- Expert at working in the agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
- Strategic mindset and bias for action with strong ability for strategic planning, defining OKRs and driving business outcomes
Responsibilities
- Lead the technology, product, and transformation teams that enable some of Target's most critical business functions.
- Shape how Ethics, Legal, and Safety teams operate in an era increasingly defined by artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and evolving business needs.
- Drive solutions that strengthen Target's culture, uphold legal and ethical responsibilities, and protect team members, guests, and communities.
- Modernize core business processes, unlock new ways of working, and advance capabilities that support Target's reputation.
- Set the overall strategic vision for your product space and product team.
- Accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics.
- Set and manage the product’s budget and financials.
- Set the short- and long-term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
- Build, coach, and mentor a strong team of product owners.
- Build a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product teams.
- Elevate collective team’s performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback.
- Work with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution related barriers for your teams.
- Drive product discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering time.
- Lead highly complex work across multiple pyramids, with interrelated specialties.
- 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.
- Understand retail or similar areas, relevant technologies and design principles to drive innovative and scalable solutions across multiple pyramids within Target.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
Associate degree
