Director Product Management – Customer Data Platform

Location: Bangalore, India
Department: Product Management

This Director of Product Management role will be based in Target in India (TII) and will lead a product team in close partnership with leaders and teams across Target.

The Customer Data Platform (CDP) Product team is a global organization within Guest Experience that builds Target’s next-generation connected enterprise and guest experience platforms. As Target’s enterprise foundation for trusted, actionable guest and marketing data, the CDP unifies data into reusable profiles and connects upstream sources with downstream decisioning, analytics, personalization, activation, social commerce, and emerging agentic systems.

As Product Director, you will 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. You will deliver trusted, interoperable products that accelerate value across Target; manage product financials, goals, and OKRs ; and ensure the platform meets enterprise standards for reliability, usability, scalability, and modern architecture.

You will build, coach , and mentor a strong team of product managers while fostering a culture of progress, transparency, accountability, and efficiency . You will elevate the team’s performance through insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback , and partner with senior leaders and peers across pyramids to negotiate priorities and remove execution barriers.

You will lead product discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering capacity. You will 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, inform decisions, and deliver recommendations to key stakeholders.

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

Requirements:

• 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