Sr Product Manager Operational Digital Twin and Decision Intelligence

About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400000 team members worldwide Target is an iconic brand and one of Americas leading retailers. Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here we believe your unique perspective is

important and youll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

As we accelerate our enterprise AI and automation strategy we are investing in intelligent platforms that bridge the physical and digital worlds enabling better decisions greater operational efficiency and new AI-powered capabilities across the enterprise.

Team overview:

The Automation Platform team is building the next generation of intelligence platforms that transform how Target understands operates and optimizes its physical environments. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the discovery strategy and execution of Targets Operational Digital Twin platform.

Role overview:

As the Sr Product Manager for Operational Digital Twin and Decision Intelligence you will own the product vision strategy discovery and execution for a new platform capability that helps Target understand optimize and automate physical operations.

At the core of this capability is an Operational Digital Twina dynamic digital representation of Targets stores supply chain facilities assets inventory equipment and workflows. By integrating signals from IoT devices sensors computer vision systems enterprise applications and operational technologies the platform provides near real-time visibility into operational performance and generates intelligence that improves decision making.

Your mission is to transform operational signals into operational intelligence and decision intelligence that improve efficiency execution and business outcomes across Targets physical operations.

Your initial focus will be to define the North Star vision identify and validate high-value use cases launch pilot solutions and establish the platform foundation required to scale from 01 incubation to enterprise adoption.

Strategic Context

This role contributes to four strategic outcomes:

• Operational Digital Twin Creating a digital representation of physical operations.

• Operational Intelligence Understanding what is happening across operations.

• Decision Intelligence Improving operational decisions through data and AI.

• Autonomous Operations Enabling increasingly AI-assisted operational workflows.

What Youll Do

Define Product Strategy and Roadmap

• Define and execute the vision strategy and roadmap for Targets Operational Digital Twin platform.

• Establish the North Star vision and multi-year roadmap for Operational Intelligence and Decision Intelligence capabilities.

• Drive investments that improve operational efficiency decision quality and business outcomes.

• Partner with stakeholders across Stores Supply Chain Asset Protection Facilities Operations and Technology to prioritize opportunities.

Discover Validate and Deliver

• Evaluate Digital Twin IoT Computer Vision Spatial Intelligence and AI technologies to identify opportunities relevant to Target.

• Conduct customer discovery operational observations and data analysis to identify and validate high-value use cases.

• Develop business cases pilot proposals and investment recommendations.

• Launch pilots and proof-of-concepts that demonstrate measurable business value.

• Define and deliver foundational platform capabilities that create a unified view of assets facilities inventory equipment and operational workflows.

Build Operational and Decision Intelligence

• Transform operational signals into actionable insights recommendations and decision support capabilities.

• Partner with engineering AI/ML computer vision IoT and data science teams to build scalable intelligence services.

• Develop capabilities that identify operational risks inefficiencies bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.

• Improve the speed consistency and quality of operational decision making.

• Establish the foundation for future AI-assisted and autonomous operational workflows.

Lead Cross-Functional Execution

• Own product prioritization roadmap planning and execution.

• Collaborate closely with engineering data science UX security privacy and enterprise architecture teams.

• Ensure solutions meet Target standards for governance privacy security and responsible AI.

• Drive stakeholder alignment product adoption and measurable business impact.

Success Measures

Discovery & Platform Growth

• High-value use cases identified and validated.

• Business cases approved for investment.

• Successful pilots launched and expanded.

• Growth in operational assets environments and data sources connected to the platform.

Operational Digital Twin Impact

• Increased visibility into operational performance across stores and supply chain facilities.

• Creation of reusable Digital Twin models and intelligence capabilities.

• Identification of operational bottlenecks risks and optimization opportunities.

Decision Intelligence Impact

• Improved speed and quality of operational decisions.

• Adoption of predictive insights and recommendation capabilities.

• Measurable business value generated through intelligence-driven recommendations.

• Expansion of AI-assisted operational workflows.

About You:

• 10 years of Product Management experience building enterprise software platforms AI products analytics solutions operational technologies or data-driven products.

• Demonstrated success leading 01 product discovery and bringing new platform capabilities to market.

• Experience conducting customer discovery opportunity assessment and strategic product planning.

• Experience partnering with engineering AI/ML computer vision IoT data science and analytics teams.

• Strong understanding of operational systems supply chain operations store operations industrial technologies or enterprise platforms.

• Excellent communication stakeholder management and influence skills.

• Strong analytical customer-centric and strategic thinking capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Operational Digital Twins Operational Intelligence IoT platforms Computer Vision Spatial Intelligence Decision Intelligence or Industrial AI solutions.

• Experience evaluating vendors emerging technologies and platform ecosystems.

• Experience leading proof-of-concept and pilot initiatives.

• Experience building platform products in large-scale enterprise environments.

Why Join Us

This is an opportunity to own a strategic product area that will shape how Target understands and operates its physical world.

You will define the vision validate the opportunities and build the foundation for Targets Operational Digital Twin platform. The capabilities you create will help teams understand operations in real time make better decisions and enable the next generation of AI-assisted operational experiences.

The platform you build will transform operational signals into decision intelligence helping Target become a more intelligent predictive and AI-enabled enterprise.

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