Lead Technical Program Manager

Job Description 

 
About us: 
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here. Join our global in-house technology team of more than 4,000 engineers, data scientists, architects and product managers striving to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guests - and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning. 

 
As a Lead Technical Program Manager, you serve as the technical anchor in high-impact organization wide initiatives. You provide the program management function in a large product-based organization. You create, own and are responsible for the strategic plan to deliver large organizational capabilities spanning many products. You develop keen understanding of the solution designs to deliver new business capabilities and can distill the technical scope for each product team. You align product roadmaps and priorities across products to ensure timely delivery of the program goals. You provide program leadership, anticipate bottlenecks, mitigate risks and quantify the impact of making tradeoffs. You create mechanisms for cross functional collaboration to ensure product teams have visibility to their dependencies and can react quickly to emergent constraints or business needs. You serve as a point of technical escalation and provide the necessary reactions. You monitor, track and report the health of the program to the stakeholders. You provide regular updates on the programs to leadership and serve as a single point of contact for any emergent changes to the scope and size of the program. You decompose large organizational goals to individual product’s scope, partner with product partners to align product priorities with program timelines, create and maintain delivery plans by aligning product schedules and dependencies, manage engineering dependencies across products. You track engineering deliverables, identify and track program risks and develop mitigation plans. You develop and own communication plans that effectively and proactively communicate program status, issues, and risks to stakeholders. You manage changes in scope and size of the program, manage technical escalations, facilitate cross functional design sessions and technical analysis. 
 
This specific TPM position drives program efforts stemming from our Enterprise Experience portfolio. The Enterprise Experience team provides solutions to meet the chat, social, email, calendaring, productivity, meeting, collaboration, internal web platform, telephony and task & project management needs of more than 400,000 Target team members through more than 100 product offerings. 

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

 
About You: 

• 4-year degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience 

• 5+ years’ experience in software engineering industry or technical program management 

• 2+ years’ experience applying Agile Methodologies 

• Hands-on project and program management skills 

• Experience in delivering large projects with cross-functional deliverables 

• Strong understanding of microservices-based architectures 

Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement:

• 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.