Lead Project Manager - Disaster Recovery

Target • Brooklyn Park, MN

1d • $115,000 - $206,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Lead Project Manager, you will lead complex, cross-functional programs that strengthen technology reliability, improve visibility and management of technical risk, and increase Target’s ability to recover critical business capabilities. You will provide strategic direction, advanced program leadership, technical and business acumen, and disciplined execution across teams and organizational levels.

The role focuses on Disaster Recovery, capability-based recovery, technical risk, and recovery validation through tabletop exercises and other evidence-based practices. You will create the program structure, governance, coordination, and visibility needed to move from application-centric documentation toward dependency-aware, executable, validated, and measurable recovery capability.

This position operates in a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day arrangement based on Target’s needs. Work is performed both onsite at the assigned Target HQ Minnesota location and virtually, depending on the role, team, and tasks. Work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Requirements

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• Five or more years of experience leading Disaster Recovery programs, recovery planning and testing, technology resilience, or closely related work.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional programs with senior leader visibility and applying program-management practices across scope, schedule, resources, communications, dependencies, change, and risk.
• Ability to translate technical risks, recovery dependencies, and business capability impacts into clear plans, decisions, executive communications, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Ability to develop sufficient technical and operational depth to partner credibly with engineers and technical leaders and lead through ambiguity and shifting priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with capability-based recovery, dependency mapping, tabletop exercises, incident recovery, or technical risk management.
• Relevant PMP, Disaster Recovery, business continuity, change management, or agile certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for Disaster Recovery, capability-based recovery, and technical risk visibility across priority Reliability programs and business capabilities.
• Connect application-level recovery planning to end-to-end business capability recovery, including objectives, dependencies, ownership, sequencing, playbooks, validation evidence, readiness, and residual risk.
• Plan and operationalize tabletop exercises and other recovery-validation activities, translating findings into prioritized, owned work with target dates, validation methods, and completion evidence.
• Establish practical governance and a shared view of known recovery and technical risks, actions, decisions, and escalation needs while keeping technical ownership with engineering teams.
• Lead complex cross-functional programs through strategy, integrated planning, delivery, and measurable outcomes, managing dependencies, resources, tradeoffs, and risk.
• Build trusted partnerships, remove roadblocks, create executive-ready reporting, and coach stakeholders to strengthen recovery planning, risk management, and execution.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and their dependents may receive comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Employee discount.
• Short-term disability.
• Long-term disability.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid national holidays.
• Paid vacation.
• Financial, education, and well-being benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior