Director Product Management - Data Foundations

About Us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of Americas leading retailers.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play.

We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.

Fuelling the continued success of one of the world’s most beloved and recognized brands is a distinctly capable, creative and innovative Marketing organization well known for inspiring and surprising guests, and we pride ourselves on connecting them to the products and experiences they expect and deserve from Target.

Roundel, Target’s publishing division, offers the world’s leading advertisers’ industry leading digital advertising solutions. More than ¾ of American adults shop Target, which translates into incredible scale for advertisers to connect directly with our guests and deliver best-in-class marketing outcomes! We design and deliver impactful marketing for brands and their agencies resulting in engagement and incremental sales that can be measured online and in-store all in premium, brand-safe environment.

As a leader with Roundel, you will be an integral part of defining the product future while leading the present by identifying, developing, and managing critical core capabilities within the Roundel ad product portfolio.

As the Director Product Management (Data Foundations), you will be responsible for building and evolving our foundational data platform products including the data sets, quality monitoring and integration platforms enabling Roundel clients, partners and team members to active this valuable asset. You will establish a strategy that propels Roundel as a differentiated leader in the advertising industry. You will lead your team to develop a roadmap to achieve this strategy and guide their execution of the roadmap. This includes actively managing, coaching and developing a team through clear expectations, goal setting as well as performance management that focuses on both productizing and operationalizing capabilities. As a product leader you will partner with internal product & technology teams and establish productive partnerships with leading data vendors. This role will act as a thought leader to anticipate and prepare for long term trends and industry shifts in the evolving landscape of Retail Media Networks and first-party data activations across all digital media.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About You:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of product management experience or equivalent digital ads industry experience with a minimum of 5 years successfully leading the creation and execution of tech product strategies
• 5+ years of proven track record working with digital data platforms, inclusive of data pipelines, relational and non-relational database technologies, streaming data, clean rooms.
• Experience working with enterprise-sized data sets, including data quality controls, data certification systems, and data platform operational analytics.
• 5+ years experience leading people is required, 3+ years of building relationships with senior executive leaders, including influencing without authority, and conceptual problem-solving through delivery of packaged solution proposals to executives.
• Proven ability to stand-up, transform and lead teams specifically in the media space.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to tell compelling business and result stories.

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of product management experience or equivalent digital ads industry experience with a minimum of 5 years successfully leading the creation and execution of tech product strategies
• 5+ years of proven track record working with digital data platforms, inclusive of data pipelines, relational and non-relational database technologies, streaming data, clean rooms.
• Experience working with enterprise-sized data sets, including data quality controls, data certification systems, and data platform operational analytics.
• 5+ years experience leading people is required, 3+ years of building relationships with senior executive leaders, including influencing without authority, and conceptual problem-solving through delivery of packaged solution proposals to executives.
• Proven ability to stand-up, transform and lead teams specifically in the media space.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to tell compelling business and result stories.