Director Product Management - Customer Data Platform

Target is a leading retail company focused on helping families discover the joy of everyday life. They are seeking a Director of Product Management for their Customer Data Platform to set the strategic vision, oversee product financials, and lead a team of product owners in driving innovation and efficiency across their marketing technology initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Set the overall strategic vision for your product space and product team
• Accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics
• Set and manage the product’s budget and financials
• Set the short- and long-term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
• Create interoperability across CDP, upstream data sources, downstream campaign and activation systems, and external partner networks
• Ensure the platform meets Target’s standards for reliability, usability, modern architecture, and enterprise scale
• Build, coach, and mentor a strong team of product owners
• Build a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product teams
• Elevate the collective team’s performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback to all roles on the team
• Work with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution related barriers for your teams
• Drive product discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering time
• Lead highly complex work across multiple pyramids, with interrelated specialties
• Leverage data and analytics to provide competitive analysis, drive decision making, assess the health and effectiveness of your products and related P&L impacts, and to deliver recommendations to key stakeholders

Requirements:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of product management experience
• Experience building and scaling data platforms in martech/adtech, audience platforms, or personalization
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing product teams while fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and enterprise collaboration
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with engineering, data science, and architecture teams to develop scalable, cloud-native, near–real time pipelines and high-reliability systems
• Strong communication skills with a proven track record influencing senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across large enterprise organizations
• Expert in agile product development (e.g., user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas) with experience shaping complex, multi-pyramid initiatives
• Strategic mindset and bias for action with a strong ability to define OKRs, drive measurable outcomes, and lead product discovery using data-driven decision making
• Experience delivering AI-powered and agentic automation capabilities, including decision engines, and end-to-end workflow automation
• Proven success driving platform modernization - including cloud migration, real-time analytics, data quality frameworks, governance, and privacy-forward design
• Strong ability to build relationships and align diverse teams across Marketing, Digital, Retail Media, Engineering, and external media & technology partners