Product Manager - Search & Recommendations Experience

The pay range is $85,500.00 - $153,900.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits .

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here .

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 Product team, whose goal is to offer guests a seamless online shopping experience across our platforms including Target.com and App along with the store network's fulfillment capabilities. Here, you'll collaborate to create and implement digital strategies that enrich the online experience through the right mix of inspiration, personalization and simplicity. Your ideas will support Target in complementing the beloved in-store shopping interaction with a convenient, reliable and instantly gratifying digital experience.

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.

Are you looking to make an impact? Join our Search & Recommendations Experience team and build innovative new products to help guests search, browse, and discover what they are looking for whether that's through Target.com, our award winning mobile apps, or in their local Target store.

As a Product Manager for Search & Recommendations Experience, you will be responsible for enhancing the findability experience on our digital platforms. Your role involves developing and implementing strategies that improve the search & recommendations user experience, ensuring consumers find the most relevant and engaging content. You will leverage consumer data and insights to drive innovations that increase search engagement, efficiency, and personalization. This person should be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and have experience creating novel user experiences, driving cross team collaboration, and communicating with partners, stakeholders, and senior leaders.

As a Product Manager, you will work in the product model and will collaborate with your product team and key stakeholders to develop a plan and business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product. You will need to build a strong knowledge of your product through product discovery to collect customer feedback and work to collect other relevant data points that explain the value and help you prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product. You will work in unison with engineers, UX designers, data scientists and business partners to deliver a product.

You will be the "voice of the product" with your product team and stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met, and you will be responsible to maintain and refine the product backlog (create user stories & acceptance criteria) 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.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. 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, preferably in search, recommendations, or AI-powered products.
• Experience building dynamic and engaging guest experiences informed by data from various sources (market research, A/B testing, user research)
• Experience owning and driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Proven experience driving collaboration across multiple teams to ensure teams are aligned and are working towards solving guest problems
• Strong communication skills, able to clearly articulate complex product concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive decision making
• Demonstrated leadership ability, self-motivated and directed, entrepreneurial ability to innovate quickly

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected].