Principal, Technology Strategy - Tech Enablement
About The Position
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.
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 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 (medical, vision, dental, life insurance)
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
- Onboarding
- Personal and career development
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
Associate degree
