Description:

Lead Product Owner

About us:

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

Data Science & Analytics

Behind one of the world's best loved brands is a uniquely capable and brilliant team of data scientists, engineers and analysts. The Target Data Science & Analytics team creates the tools and data products to sustainably educate and enable our business partners to make great data-based decisions at Target. We help develop the technology that personalizes the guest experience, from product recommendations to relevant ad content. We're also the source of the data and analytics behind Target's Internet of Things (iOT) applications, fraud detection, Supply Chain optimization and demand forecasting. We play a key role in identifying the test-and-measure or A/B test opportunities that continuously help Target improve the guest experience, whether they love to shop in stores or at Target.com.

About the Job:

As a Lead Product Owner in Data Science & Analytics, you will be responsible for driving analytical data product strategies that enable capabilities across the organization. By driving these data capabilities and keeping current with the ever-changing big data industry, you will help shape the direction and adoption of future data analytics.

You will be responsible for implement the vision of building Certified Datasets that serve as the source of truth for Finance partners. Data Product Teams at Target are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through certified datasets that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product, technology, discovery and design work.

This is a multifaceted role that will include customer engagements, road mapping/planning, prioritization, driving Target to be even more successful with data. In this position you will be in the center of where business, product, analytics, data platforms, and data engineering meet. Driving a product roadmap and relationships with multiple user bases and other teams that have analytical data dependencies.

As a Lead Product Owner, you will work in the product model and will partner to develop a comprehensive product strategy for the Gross Margin Finance Data Product, related roadmap, and set key business objectives (OKRs) for your product. You will need to leverage the knowledge of your product, as well as, customer feedback and establish other relevant data points to assess value, develop business cases, and prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product. You will lead a product and work in unison with engineers, analysts and business partners to deliver a product.

You will be the "voice of the product" to key stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met and that the product team is getting the direction and support that it needs to be successful. You will develop and actively understand the market, maintain a product roadmap and backlog outlining the customer themes, epics, and stories while prioritizing the backlog to focus on the highest impact work for your team and stakeholders.

You will encourage the open exchange of information and viewpoints, as well as, inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction. You will foster sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles, and partner with product teams across the organization to help them achieve their goals while pursuing and completing yours. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• 4-year college degree (or equivalent experience)
• 6+ years of retail experience or equivalent domain experience
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Passion for driving a customer community of practice
• Ability to drive a product roadmap across multiple tools and dependencies
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
• Experience working in an agile environment as a Product owner(e.g. writing user stories, personas, road maps, OKRs, leading iterative development, organizing sprints, etc.)
• Proven ability to lead a body of work with cross functional partners
• Ability to lead technical conversations with product owners, engineer, and data scientists
• Experience in Finance
• Experience with data analysis and data pipelining utilizing tools such as Hadoop, Spark, SQL, Python, etc.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.

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