The pay range is $113,000.00 - $203,000.00
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
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.
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 Product team, whose goal is to offer guests a seamless online shopping experience across our platforms including Target.com and App along with 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 inspiration, personalization and simplicity. Your ideas will support Target in complementing the beloved in-store shopping interaction with a convenient, reliable and instantly gratifying digital experience.
Product Teams at Target are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product, technology, discovery and design work.
As a Sr Product Manager for Search Retrieval, you will be responsible for enhancing the foundational layers of the search experience on our digital platforms. Your role focuses on developing and implementing strategies that optimize how we retrieve product candidates in response to user queries. The goal is to ensure our systems return a broad, accurate, and contextually relevant set of results. You will work across lexical, semantic, and hybrid retrieval methods to optimize the search pipeline for high recall, low latency, and readiness for downstream ranking. Success in this role is measured by your ability to improve retrieval quality, system performance, and overall impact on guest engagement and conversion.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will operate within the product model and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define a comprehensive product strategy, roadmap, and key business objectives (OKRs) focused on scalable and effective retrieval systems. You will combine deep product understanding, retrieval system expertise, customer insights, and performance data to drive direction. You will lead a team of engineers, machine learning practitioners, and data scientists to build core infrastructure and capabilities that power the entire search experience.
You will serve as the voice of the product for retrieval across the organization, ensuring your team is aligned to the most impactful work and that stakeholders have the clarity and support they need. You will maintain a roadmap and backlog focused on addressing retrieval gaps, improving index performance, enhancing recall quality, and enabling experimentation. Your prioritization will support robust query coverage, efficient candidate generation, and reliable foundations for ranking and personalization.
You will foster open communication across technical and business teams, promote a culture of urgency and high standards, and guide the team through complex trade-offs related to system architecture, data quality, and model integration. You will also partner closely with adjacent product areas such as ranking, query understanding, taxonomy, and generative AI to deliver a cohesive and effective search experience.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time based on business needs.
About you:
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.
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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