Principal Product Manager - Data Platforms

About this role: 

The Enterprise Data Platform team has a unique role in powering the enterprise’s data strategy, including data ingestion, governed data products, analytics, and AI. 

As a Principal Product Manager focused on our modern Data Platform, you will be responsible for setting and evolving the enterprise vision, strategy, and multi-year direction for the modern data ecosystem, translating enterprise and tech priorities into an integrated data platform strategy and investment roadmap. This includes ensuring the platform provides the trusted, scalable, and governed foundation required for the enterprise’s AI and agentic strategies. 

You will serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, framing platform opportunities, investment choices, enterprise dependencies, and key trade-offs to enable informed decision-making and orchestrate large-scale initiatives spanning numerous upstream and downstream teams. 

You will partner with capability Product Managers to shape an integrated platform portfolio, resolve cross-product priorities and trade-offs, and ensure individual strategies and roadmaps collectively advance quarterly, annual, and multi-year platform outcomes. 

As you drive enterprise platform outcomes, you will: 

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. 

About you:  

You are an enterprise product strategist who can operate between long-term vision, complex technical considerations, executive-level decisions, and the practical realities of platform delivery.  

You operate with a strong ownership mindset and can work proactively to identify, address, and rally teams around critical needs before they become issues. You can work independently and influence others throughout the organization without direct authority. You naturally empower product, engineering, and UX teams by creating clarity and focus for them to operate in. You are a natural collaborator, fostering great ideas through empowerment of the teams and team members around you. You balance urgency with sound judgment, creating momentum while ensuring consequential platform decisions are grounded in clear evidence, strategic context, and long-term enterprise value. 

Required qualifications 

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.