Product Manager Roundel (Ad Tech)

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.

Team overview:

Roundel is Targets retail media networkbuilt on the power of first-party data brand-safe environments and measurable business outcomes. We are redefining what value means in advertising by building transparent performant and privacy-forward ad platforms that drive growth for our clients.

This is a high-impact high-growth area for Target and a chance to help shape the future of retail media.

Role overview:

We are looking for aProduct Manager (L5)to own and evolvedisplay ad serving capabilities across Roundels owned and operated properties. This is a deeply technical platform-oriented role focused onad delivery systems event tracking and logging observability and data integrity at scale. You will work at the intersection ofad serving data infrastructure and measurement ensuring our systems are reliable transparent and built for scale.

If you enjoy solving complex system problems improving reliability and performance and building foundational AdTech capabilitiesthis role is for you.

What youll do

• Own the product vision and roadmapfor display ad serving across Roundels O&O ecosystem

• Drive end-to-end ad delivery capabilities including request handling decisioning signals logging and event pipelines

• Partner closely with engineering and data teamsto design scalable low-latency high-reliability systems

• Build robust eventing and logging frameworksthat power billing reporting and measurement use cases

• Improve platform observabilitythrough monitoring alerting anomaly detection and debugging tools

• Ensure data accuracy and consistencyacross ad serving reporting and downstream measurement systems

• Collaborate with measurement analytics and campaign management teamsto enable seamless workflows and trusted reporting

• Drive continuous improvementsin system performance automation and operational efficiency

• Define and track success metrics (SLAs latency delivery accuracy data completeness)and use them to guide prioritization

How youll work

At Target Product Managers operate in aproduct model owning outcomesnot just outputs.

You will:

• Setclear product strategy and OKRsaligned to business and platform goals

• Leadproduct discoveryby combining customer feedback system insights and data

• Maintain asingle prioritized backlogacross product engineering and data science

• Work in tight partnership withengineering data science and stakeholders

• Act as thevoice of the product balancing business needs with technical constraints

• Drive clarity in ambiguous spaces andsimplify complex systems into actionable plans

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience

• 4 years of Product management experience with exposure toAdTech or data platforms

• Strong understanding ofad serving systems event pipelines or distributed systems

• Experience buildingplatform or infrastructure products(not just UI-driven features)

• Comfort working with concepts likelatency scale reliability logging and data consistency

• Proven ability tosolve complex technical problemsand drive execution with engineering teams

• Ability tonavigate ambiguity and operate independentlyin a fast-moving environment

• Strong analytical thinking and adata-driven approach to decision making

• Clear and effective communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Good to have

• Experience withretail media networks or programmatic advertising

• Familiarity withmeasurement systems (impressions clicks attribution billing)

• Exposure toobservability tools experimentation or anomaly detection systems

Why this role matters

Ad serving is the backbone of Roundels platform. The systems you build will directly impact:

• Revenue accuracy and scalability

• Advertiser trust and transparency

• Measurement fidelity and reporting quality

This is a chance to work onmission-critical infrastructurein one of the fastest-growing areas at Targetand shape how modern retail media platforms operate.

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