Principal Product Manager – Core Intelligence and Optimization
Target in India | L7 Individual Contributor
About the Job – Principal Product Manager, Core Intelligence and Optimization
Target’s stores operate at extraordinary scale and complexity. Every day, millions of signals across inventory, workload, space, team member activity and physical environments create opportunities to make smarter operational decisions.
As a Principal Product Manager for Core Intelligence and Optimization, you will help shape how Target turns those signals into intelligence.
You will be a senior product thought leader working across Core Intelligence to identify and solve some of Target’s hardest problems at the intersection of AI, data science, operational intelligence, recommendation, optimization and automation.
Your role will extend beyond any single product. You will explore emerging opportunities, frame ambiguous problems,



incubate recent intelligence capabilities and connect products across the intelligence lifecycle—from understanding operational context through recommendation and optimization.
You will influence Product, Engineering, Data Science, UX and Operations leaders across the enterprise and help shape Target's evolving approach to intelligent Store systems.
Core Intelligence Optimization Product Strategy & Innovation
Shape long-term product thinking for Core Intelligence and identify emerging opportunities across intelligent systems, AI/ML, recommendation, optimization and automation.
Develop solid product perspectives on how Target can use operational and physical signals to create differentiated Store intelligence.
Identify complex, cross-cutting problems where intelligence can create meaningful value for guests, team members and Store operations.
Translate ambiguous opportunities into clear problem spaces, hypotheses and product strategies.
Help determine where Target should build reusable intelligence capabilities versus domain-specific solutions.
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📌 Principal Product Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Target
📍 Bengaluru