Description: Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company, and one of America's leading retailers.

The Testing and Measurement team is tasked with enabling data driven decision making at Target. Today we are running numerous simultaneous experiments across teams working on a multitude of different products built for millions of users. Experimentation touches nearly every business function from marketing via content management to consumer products. And we are only in the very beginning of this transformative journey.

We're currently building our next generation experimentation platform and are a few years into our journey. In this role, you will be expected to extend the breadth and depth of experimentation platform to enable data driven decision making for the product and operations teams. You will be tasked with making experimentation cheap (integration and effort) to lower barriers to entry while increasing the breadth and operating at scale.

To succeed with this important mission, we are seeking a lead product owner to lead and implement our vision for experimentation at scale at Target. In this position you will be in the center where business, product, analytics & insights, research, and technology meet.

Product teams at Target Corporation are accountable for the delivery of product outcomes.  Product outcomes are a combination of delivering features that drive business value and creating a technology system that is easily maintained and highly reliable. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product, technology, and design work.

As a Lead Product Owner, you will be responsible for defining the vision and roadmap for the services and APIs our products are built on. You'll work with internal stakeholders across engineering and product as well as customers to develop deep empathy for the users of our platform and ensure the roadmap aligns to our overall business objectives. You will work in the product model and will lead the development of a comprehensive product strategy and set key business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product area.  You will need to leverage extensive knowledge of your product, as well as customer feedback and other relevant data points to assess value, develop use cases, and prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product.

You will be the “voice of the product” to all outside stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met, and that the product team is getting the leadership and support that it needs to be successful.  You will need to cultivate strong relationships across the enterprise in order to drive collaboration and alignment with key partners and stakeholders across pyramids. 

You will develop and actively maintain a product roadmap outlining prioritization for the customer themes, technical needs, and design challenges to be delivered and you will be accountable to make final decisions on scope and prioritization relative to the product backlog. You will be accountable to create and manage product objectives, key results, and key metrics for your product.

Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.  

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Establish world class experimentation products, practices, and processes for Target
• Evangelize, guide, and educate experimentation practices both within and outside of Target
• Ensure that our experimentation practice and strategy reflect the latest thinking in the scientific community
• Provide vision and strategy for the Experimentation Platform and partner with other product owners to formulate the technical vision and strategy
• Recruit a dream team of managers and engineers to execute on your vision
• Expand experimentation capabilities over time to include sampled, quasi,and adaptive techniques
• Refine the existing product experience and iterate towards a more polished and intuitive test setup and analysis user experience
• Consistently evaluate our experimentation capabilities and tools against other industry leaders and peers
• Collaborate with product managers, analytics, engineering, and data science teams to gather feedback and requirements for Target's experimentation platform
• Maintain and refine a backlog: create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize stories to ensure the work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy
• Work in scrum team, ensuring the teams are aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all scrum meetings.
• Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction
• Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles
• Ensure stories clearly communicate strong affinity for application development as a target market.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the developer community and the tools and technologies developers use to bring products to market, including:  platform-as-a-service, CI/CD, devops, and containers. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of the data services the customer and stakeholders need to meet key business objectives and strategies for their products. 

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of experience with experimentation and/or data-driven products at scale (A/B testing, variant testing, multi-arm bandits, etc)
• Bachelor's degree required, engineering, marketing, information systems, business, or commensurate experience strongly preferred.
• A demonstrated track record partnering with product, engineering & analytics teams, research, and analytics functions
• Superior data and analytical skills including the ability to define and decompose relevant metrics and to directly perform data analysis in SQL or similar
• A strong team player with proven ability to work cross functionally
• Great leadership and communication skills. Asking questions, listening, driving team alignment, and influencing without authority across all levels of the organization.
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and tech teams
• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, etc.)
• Strong public speaking skills and ability to develop compelling customer-facing presentations
• Proven track record in performing well in a fast-paced environment and organizational skills to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines effectively.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to articulate a strategy at every level of the company

Preferred:

MBA or other graduate level technical degree.

Similar Industry Titles and Key Words: Product Owner, Lead Systems Analyst 

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