Description:

Lead Product Owner - Enterprise UI

About us:

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

Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com, they experience the impact of Target's investments in technology and innovation. We're the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.

Join our global in-house technology team of more than 4,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches and product managers striving to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guests-and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning.

The Enterprise UI team provides a suite of products to engineering teams across Target, that help implement a consistent user experience across non-guest facing products, enhance developer productivity and facilitate code quality assurance.

The flagship design system and library product this team offers is called Canvas. Canvas started as an internal need and blossomed into a full-fledged design library adopted by over 200 teams at Target. Alongside Canvas, the Enterprise UI team offers code sandboxes, Icon packs and UI testing tools.

About the Job:

Product Teams at Target are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products 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.

As a Lead Product Owner, you will work in the product model and will partner to develop a comprehensive product strategy, related roadmap, and set key business objectives (OKRs) for your respective 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, UX designers, data scientists 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 skills
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
• Proven ability to lead a body of work with cross functional partners
• Ability to strategically drive the vision, development, rollout, and continual innovation of products
• Development experience with Web UI technologies, including JavaScript and CSS
• Familiarity with UI frameworks like ReactJS, VueJS or others
• Familiarity with UI testing strategies and tools
• Ability to compare different UI development approaches and arrive at a suitable solution for the given requirements
• Sound knowledge of current state of UI engineering thought and patterns in the external engineering community
• Experience building product roadmaps, quarterly plans, and backlogs
• Experience with stakeholder and user management

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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