Director Product Management Customer Data Platform

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The Customer Data Platform (CDP)Product team is a global organization within Marketing that buildsTargetsnext generationconnectedenterpriseand guestexperienceplatforms unifying guest data and enabling AI-firstreal-timepersonalization at scale. We drive the product vision strategy and roadmap that fuel growth and transform guest experiences through a modernhuman-centereduniquelyTarget approach.

The Enterprise Audience Platform (EAP) is Targets next-generation capability enabling unified audience creation segmentation activation and measurement across the enterprise.Within TargetsCustomer Data Platform (CDP) EAPpowersonsite/apppersonalization drivesretail mediamarketing efficiencyenables performance marketing reachacceleratesincremental contribution and enables enterprise teams to act on real-time connected guest insights. The platform integrates upstream identity and guest data CDP pipelines real-time computation audience decisioning engines and downstream activation channels across Targets marketing and media ecosystem.

As aProduct Director you will set the overall strategic vision for your product space and product team are accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics will set and manage the products budget and financials set the short- and long-term product goals and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).You will createinteroperability across CDP upstream data sources downstream campaign and activation systems and external partner networks. By guiding strategy financials discovery and execution this leader ensures the platform meets Targets standards for reliability usability modern architecture and enterprise scale.

You will be accountable for building coaching and mentoringa strong teamof product owners while also buildinga strongteamculture of progress transparency and efficiency across Product teams.You will be responsible to elevate your collective teams performance by providing insightful motivating and constructive feedback to all roles on the team while also working with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution related barriers for your teams.

You will drive product discovery with key stakeholders tovalidatehypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering time as you leadhighly complexwork across multiple pyramids with interrelated specialties.You willleveragedata 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.

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

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience

• 10 years of product managementexperience

• Experience leading coaching and developing product teams while fostering a culture of transparency accountability and enterprise collaboration

• Experience building and scalingdata platformsmartech/adtechsolutionsaudienceplatformsandpersonalization

• Demonstrated ability to work closely with engineering data science and architecture teams to develop scalable cloud-native nearreal time pipelines and high-reliability systems

• Strong communicationskills with a proventrack recordinfluencing 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