Director Product Management - Customer Data Platform

Overview

Lead the product team for Target's Customer Data Platform (CDP), setting product vision, strategy and roadmap for core CDP capabilities, based in Target in India (TII).

What you'll do

• Set the product vision and own the strategy and roadmap for core CDP capabilities, including data sourcing, identity resolution, third-party data, marketing and CRM data assets, guest preferences, sales enablement, and enterprise activation.
• Deliver trusted, interoperable products that accelerate value across Target.
• Manage product financials, goals, and OKRs.
• Ensure the platform meets enterprise standards for reliability, usability, scalability, and modern architecture.
• Build, coach, and mentor a strong team of product managers, fostering a culture of progress, transparency, accountability, and efficiency.
• Elevate team performance through insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback.
• Partner with senior leaders and peers across pyramids to negotiate priorities and remove execution barriers.
• Lead product discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering capacity.
• Guide highly complex work across multiple pyramids and interrelated specialties, using data and analytics to assess product health, evaluate competitive dynamics and P&L impact, and deliver recommendations to key stakeholders.

What you'll need

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of product management experience.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing product teams while fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and enterprise collaboration.
• Proven experience leading enterprise Customer Data Platform capabilities that unify customer profiles, enable audience creation and activation, support real-time decisioning and personalization, and drive measurable adoption across business teams and channels.
• Experience defining strategy and roadmaps for foundational customer data capabilities, including data sourcing and ingestion, identity resolution, unified guest profiles, consent and preference management, CRM data assets, and third-party data integration.
• Experience building and scaling data platforms in e-commerce, retail, martech, or adtech.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering, data science, and architecture teams to develop scalable, cloud-native data pipelines and highly reliable systems.
• Strong communication skills with a proven track record of influencing senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across large enterprise organizations.
• Expertise in agile product development, including user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, and 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.
• Proven success modernizing enterprise data platforms through cloud migration, real-time processing and analytics, data quality frameworks, governance, consent and identity controls, privacy-forward design, responsible data use, and sustainable operating models.
• Strong ability to build relationships and align diverse teams across Marketing, Digital, Retail Media, Engineering, Target in India, and external media and technology partners.

Details

• Based in Target in India (TII), Bangalore, India.