Principal Product Manager – Genai Product

Principal Product Manager

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Target is well known for its signature ability to build the very best teams, and we infuse our work with Target's distinctive retail brand by continuously experimenting, evolving and innovating. With the chance to positively impact over 400,000 team members worldwide, you'll be a strategic partner to both the leaders and team members who elevate and nurture the Target guest experience. Our dynamic, passionate and responsive team comprises specialized people-professionals from several diverse disciplines. We create a progressive culture of value, respect, reward and professional advancement. Working within the HR Product Team, you'll focus on the powerful and innovative systems and technologies that team members depend on to manage their work productivity.

As the Principal Product Manager, you will define and own the long-term strategy for productivity tools across the enterprise, setting a clear vision for how platforms like ChatGPT-Enterprise, Slack, Zoom, Microsoft 365, and other productivity technologies evolve to support collaboration and efficiency for the enterprise. You will lead the development of a roadmap to integrate Generative AI/Agentic AI into these tools, identifying opportunities to transform workflows, reduce friction, and unlock new ways of working. Partnering closely with technology, security, and business leaders, you will align priorities to ensure you are creating products that users love, are scalable to the enterprise, secure, and compliant.

In this role, you will act as the subject matter expert and thought leader for productivity platforms and GenAI/Agentic AI; leveraging deep product knowledge to drive adoption and deliver measurable business outcomes. You will translate strategy into actionable roadmaps, working with engineering, design, and vendor partners to ensure seamless delivery and continuous improvement. By defining success metrics, monitoring adoption, and iterating based on feedback, you will ensure products deliver maximum value to employees. Success will hinge on your ability to operate in a matrixed environment, driving alignment and momentum across technology, compliance, security and business stakeholders. You will frequently influence without formal authority, building coalitions, aligning diverse perspectives, and ensuring enterprise priorities are advanced even when reporting lines or ownership structures differ.

As the "voice of the product," you will advocate for your product and ensure stakeholder needs are met while ensuring your product team receives the leadership and support required to succeed. This includes cultivating trust-based relationships across pyramids and business units, navigating competing priorities, and building alignment.

Finally, you will oversee progress against product backlogs, prioritizing themes, epics, and stories that deliver the greatest value in line with product strategy. You will ensure GenAI/Agentic AI enablement accelerates enterprise productivity and empowers teams to work smarter and more effectively.

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
• 10+ years of experience including 5+ years of relevant product management experience
• Experience in implementing GenAI solutions for a large enterprise
• Deep knowledge of enterprise productivity tools and how GenAI can enhance the usability of the tools
• Proven track record of building strategies and delivering outcomes at scale in complex organizations
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
• Strong communication skills with proven ability to influence peers, key stakeholders and leaders
• Expert at working in an agile environment (e.g., user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
• Strategic mindset with a bias for action with the strong ability for strategic planning, defining OKRs and driving business outcomes
• Ability to manage vendor relationships to ensure Target is utilizing the product to full capacity and creating efficiencies
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to define and measure success metrics.
• Ability to lead and influence a team while fostering relationships across multiple enterprise-wide teams

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.

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