Lead Technical Program Manager

Join our global in-house technology team of more than 4,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches 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 distil the technical scope for each product team.
You align product roadmaps and priorities 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 and track engineering deliverables, identify and track program risks and develop mitigation plans, develop and own communication plans to effectively and proactively communicate program status, issues, and risks to stakeholders, manage changes in scope and size of the program, manage technical escalations, facilitate cross functional design sessions and technical analysis.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description.
Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

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