Principal, Technology Strategy - UX

Target • Brooklyn Park, MN

1d • $135,000 - $243,000

About The Position

As a Principal, Technology Strategy, you will serve as Chief of Staff to a Technology Senior Vice President during a transformational time for Target and its Tech team. You will act as a strategic advisor and execution partner, ensuring the SVP’s portfolio is aligned with enterprise priorities and positioned to deliver measurable impact. You will shape annual and multi-year strategy, clarify trade-offs, sequencing, and resource allocation decisions, and represent portfolio priorities in key enterprise forums.

You will translate strategy into clear priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes, establishing and managing an operating rhythm across the portfolio, including strategic planning, quarterly business reviews, and leadership cadences. You will ensure transparency on performance, risks, and dependencies, proactively address challenges through data-informed, cross-functional decision-making, and build mechanisms that translate intent into action while focusing on the highest-impact work.

Operating within a centralized Technology Chief of Staff model, you will strengthen consistency and execution discipline across portfolios. You will surface enterprise interdependencies early, balance portfolio advocacy with enterprise-first thinking, and contribute to the Technology Chief of Staff community by building shared standards, trust, and collective accountability across portfolios.

You will build deep domain expertise within your assigned Technology portfolio, understanding key risks, performance metrics, investment drivers, and capability gaps. You will engage credibly with senior technical leaders and translate complex technical topics into clear, enterprise-ready narratives that inform decision-making and drive alignment. Target will support you with onboarding and personal and career development.

Requirements

• College degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Strategy, Technology, Operations, Consulting, or related fields.
• Proven ability to operate at senior levels within a complex, matrixed organization.
• Strategic thinking, operational discipline, and a bias for action.
• Exceptional communication skills, including executive storytelling and structured problem solving.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.
• Strong judgment, high accountability, and comfort with ambiguity.
• Skill in driving clarity, prioritization, and thoughtful trade-offs.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to or building a community of practice that enables shared standards, knowledge exchange, and collective problem-solving across peers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Chief of Staff to a Technology Senior Vice President, acting as a strategic advisor and execution partner.
• Align the SVP’s portfolio with enterprise priorities and support measurable impact.
• Shape annual and multi-year strategy; clarify trade-offs, sequencing, and resource allocation decisions.
• Represent portfolio priorities in key enterprise forums.
• Translate strategy into priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish and manage portfolio operating rhythms, including strategic planning, quarterly business reviews, and leadership cadences.
• Ensure transparency on portfolio performance, risks, and dependencies.
• Address challenges through data-informed, cross-functional decision-making and build mechanisms that turn strategic intent into action.
• Strengthen consistency and execution discipline across portfolios within the centralized Technology Chief of Staff model.
• Surface enterprise interdependencies early and balance portfolio advocacy with enterprise-first thinking.
• Contribute to the Technology Chief of Staff community by building shared standards, trust, and collective accountability.
• Build domain expertise in the assigned Technology portfolio, including its risks, performance metrics, investment drivers, and capability gaps.
• Engage with senior technical leaders and translate complex technical topics into enterprise-ready narratives that inform decisions and drive alignment.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and 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
• Onboarding and personal and career development support

What This Job Offers

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