Principal, Technology Strategy - Tech Enablement

Target • Brooklyn Park, NC

10d • $135,000 - $243,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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 . Target Tech creates and operates the tools, technology, science, and systems that enable every part of Target’s business and creates compelling and joyful experiences for our team members and guests. Our success is rooted in our diverse and talented team employing architectural discipline, agile execution, innovation, and operational excellence. While we create new capabilities to drive engagement, efficiency, and growth, we also prioritize investing in our technology ecosystem to keep it reliable, performant, and secure. We believe empowering our team to solve problems, fostering continuous learning and innovation, and building strong team connections enables us to deliver more, faster, and with higher quality. And with more joy. 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 the Tech team. You will act as a strategic advisor and execution partner, ensuring the SVP’s portfolio is aligned to 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 a strong 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 sharpening focus on the highest-impact work. Operating within a centralized Technology Chief of Staff model and reporting to the Senior Director, Technology Strategy & Operations , you will strengthen consistency and execution discipline across portfolios. You will surface enterprise interdependencies early, balance portfolio advocacy with enterprise-first thinking, and actively contribute to and strengthen 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. We’ll support you along the way with onboarding, as well as personal and career development, to help you grow as a strong Principal in Technology Strategy. The exciting part of retail? It’s always changing !

Requirements

• College degree or equivalent experience, combined with 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 thinker with strong operational discipline and 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.
• Skilled at driving clarity , prioritization, and thoughtful trade-offs.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to or building a community of practice, enabling shared standards, knowledge exchange, and collective problem-solving across peers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Chief of Staff to a Technology Senior Vice President during a transformational time for Target and the Tech team.
• Act as a strategic advisor and execution partner, ensuring the SVP’s portfolio is aligned to enterprise priorities and positioned to deliver measurable impact.
• Shape annual and multi-year strategy, clarify trade-offs, sequencing, and resource allocation decisions, and represent portfolio priorities in key enterprise forums.
• Translate strategy into clear priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes, establishing and managing a strong operating rhythm across the portfolio, including strategic planning, quarterly business reviews, and leadership cadences.
• 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 sharpening focus on the highest-impact work.
• Strengthen consistency and execution discipline across portfolios.
• Surface enterprise interdependencies early, balance portfolio advocacy with enterprise-first thinking, and actively contribute to and strengthen the Technology Chief of Staff community by building shared standards, trust, and collective accountability across portfolios.
• Build deep domain expertise within your assigned Technology portfolio, understanding key risks, performance metrics, investment drivers, and capability gaps.
• Engage credibly with senior technical leaders and translate complex technical topics into clear, enterprise-ready narratives that inform decision-making and drive alignment.

Benefits

• comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves
• 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: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees