Description:

Lead Product Owner - Guest Messaging

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

Fueling the continued success of one of the world's most beloved and recognized brands is a distinctly capable, creative and innovative Marketing organization. Target Marketing is 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. We study our guests to discover new needs and insights, and then craft every interaction to build brand love. We are market experts who insist on a clear and cohesive understanding of our business objectives, guest segments and behaviors, strategies and tactics, overcoming obstacles and measuring success. Our commitment to partnering both internally and with external agencies gives us a wide range of capabilities, from award-winning creative work to exciting and unique promotional marketing. Leveraging our collective assets and fostering a healthy, supportive and open team culture, we deliver a holistically gratifying experience that guests can only get at Target.

About the Job:

A role within Target Loyalty Guest Messaging means a big opportunity to create new capabilities that unlock new and exciting ways to engage with our guests. In this role you will lead and define product implementation that helps to fuel the continued growth of the Guest Messaging platform. The role will focus on the back-end capabilities that power a dynamic and guest focused messaging experience. You will partner closely with partners across digital, marketing and merchandising to ensure a connected and scalable ecosystem. Your work will help guide the holistic experience for our guests while providing our business partners with capabilities they can easily leverage to drive key results. This role will identify key opportunities in the Guest Messaging space and develop strategy that accounts for facets from competitors, guest research, industry and economic trends to improve Target's guest experience and digital conversion.

Product Teams at Target Corporation 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 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. This position is accountable to collaborate with multiple enterprise teams to establish priorities and remove roadblocks to maximize productivity and deliver business value.

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:

• Four-year college degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of product experience with an emphasis in guest messaging or marketing products
• Strong communication skills and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
• Technical aptitude and experience working in an agile environment
• Experience working with data and cross functionally with data science partners
• Ability to work cross-functionally, both within domain and cross-business
• Experience within the retail or loyalty/guest focused landscape

This position may be considered for a Full-Time Remote or Hybrid work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid work arrangement means the team members core role will be a blend of virtual and onsite at a Target location. A Full-Time Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at their primary HQ work location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year.

Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada residents is $97,600 to $175,700. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond.

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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