Director Product Management - Marketplace

About us :

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's 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 you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

Team overview :

Right along with Target’s distinctive retail brand, we are constantly improving and innovating our digital shopping experience. Are you ready to excel in the fast-changing retail environment? Are you a customer service enthusiast who’s curious about the guest and can see the shopping journey through their eyes? Then you’ll have success on the Digital Strategy & Platform team, whose goal is to offer guests a seamless online shopping experience across our platforms—including Target.com and the store network’s fulfillment capabilities. Here, you’ll collaborate to create and implement the digital strategies that enrich the online experience through the right mix of personalization, simplicity and intuitiveness. Your ideas will support Target in complementing the beloved in-store shopping interaction with a convenient, reliable and instantly gratifying digital experience.

Role overview :

We are seeking an accomplished

Director Product Management

to define and lead the strategy, vision, and execution of our

3rd Party Marketplace and Seller Portal . In this high-impact role, you will shape the ecosystem that empowers sellers, expands guest choice, and delivers scalable growth. Success requires a unique blend of

strategic insight, deep marketplace expertise, and technical product leadership , paired with a passion for building world-class experiences for both sellers and guests.

The ideal candidate will bring

deep expertise in digital commerce and multi-sided marketplaces, with proven success in scaling complex product ecosystems and leading high-performing, cross-functional teams . You will champion both seller and customer needs, driving innovation in onboarding, catalog management, pricing, performance insights, compliance, and fulfilment integration. With a strong product mindset and data-driven approach, you will ensure the marketplace delivers a seamless, intuitive, and trusted experience at scale—balancing growth, customer delight, and platform economics.

As a people leader, you will build and inspire a high-performing team of product managers, serving as both coach and mentor. You will cultivate a

culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous growth , empowering your team to deliver outsized business impact.

You will be accountable for achieving

defined business outcomes and marketplace metrics , partnering across Digital, Merchandising, Data Sciences, Stores, and Supply Chain organizations. As an excellent storyteller and influencer, you will align stakeholders, translate technical concepts into simple narratives, and remove barriers to execution.

This is a unique opportunity to drive one of Target’s most important digital growth levers—building a trusted, best-in-class marketplace platform that balances

seller empowerment, customer delight, and enterprise scale .

As a Director Product Management, you’ll take the lead on

Marketplace Strategy & Vision

Define and drive the long-term strategy and roadmap for the 3P marketplace, ensuring alignment with overall company objectives.

Develop frameworks for balancing customer experience, seller growth, and platform economics.

Identify emerging trends, competitive landscapes, and white spaces to innovate in marketplace capabilities.

Seller & Partner Experience

Lead development of the Seller Portal and related tools for onboarding, catalog management, pricing, fulfillment, performance insights, and compliance.

Partner with business, operations, engineering, and design to streamline seller experience while meeting customer expectations for trust and quality.

Customer Experience

Ensure marketplace products enhance customer trust, convenience, and value.

Drive initiatives to optimize assortment quality, product discovery, pricing intelligence, and fulfillment reliability.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Partner with engineering, design, operations, finance, and business development to deliver innovative solutions at scale.

Lead and mentor a team of product managers, setting a culture of innovation, accountability, and high performance.

Data-Driven Decisions

Define KPIs for marketplace success (GMV, active sellers, customer NPS, fulfillment speed, etc.).

Use data and experimentation (A / B testing, cohort analysis) to refine features and improve adoption.

Drive AI / ML powered insights to enhance areas such as pricing, fraud prevention, and personalization.

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 hands-on product experience or equivalent domain experience, with atleast 5 years in leadership role.

Proven success in building and scaling

marketplaces, platforms, or complex multi-sided ecosystem

Deep understanding of

marketplace economics, seller ecosystems, and buyer behavior.

Strong technical aptitude, experience working closely with business, engineering and data science and cross functional enterprise teams.

Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to think strategically while driving operational excellence.

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