Product Manager

About us:

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers. Right along with Target’s distinctive retail brand, we are constantly improving and innovating our digital shopping experience. Are you ready to excel in the fast-changing retail environment? Are you a customer service enthusiast who’s curious about the guest and can see the shopping journey through their eyes? Then you’ll have success on the Digital Strategy & Platform team, whose goal is to offer guests a seamless online shopping experience across our platforms—including Target.com and the store network’s fulfillment capabilities. Here, you’ll collaborate to create and implement the digital strategies that enrich the online experience through the right mix of personalization, simplicity and intuitiveness. Your ideas will support Target in complementing the beloved in-store shopping interaction with a convenient, reliable and instantly gratifying digital experience.

About the Job:

As Product Manager for Grouper you will be instrumental in bringing to life item groups across our Digital and Physical channels curating Bundles, Add-Ons, Shoppable Collections, and Variations. This role will require you to lead the product identifying item grouping opportunities, connect & influence multi-functional teams across Digital, Stores, Supply Chain & others to influence decisions, leverage machine learning, define product – technology strategy and roadmap, work with data sciences and technology teams to build capabilities that drive guest engagement and sales. We are looking for someone with strong demonstrable B2C ecommerce product management experience having worked on strategies & execution in leveraging item groups to drive Cross Sell & Up Sell with focus on top of the funnel customer experience. Candidate must have previous experience in building greenfield products navigating the challenges in adoption, working through ambiguity & complex collaboration with interconnected partner systems, solving big data problems, leveraging machine learning, SEO/SEM, with intense data orientation, business outcomes and customer focus. Proven experience in setting vision, strategies, roadmap planning, defining, and tracking success metrics, writing, and pitching business case, ability to tell the story and establish rapport, credibility, and influence in a highly cross-functional, matrix organization across geographies. 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.

As a Product Manager, 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:

Four-year degree or equivalent experience

• 4+ years of product management experience or equivalent domain experience in B2C ecommerce Product Management, building capabilities and driving top of the funnel customer experience

• Proven experience working on strategies & execution in grouping items to drive Cross Sell & Up Sell with focus on top of the funnel customer experience.

• Demonstrable experience working on big data problems, leveraging machine learning, putting together product vision & strategy, writing & pitching business case and experience in SEO/SEM, A/B tests.

• Experience working on back-end (services) & Frontend Top of Funnel Experience.

• Strong communication & influencing skills with proven ability to lead & influence highly cross functional, matrix organization across geographies.

• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g., user stories, personas, iterative development, scrum teams)