Principal, Technology Strategy - Tech Enablement

Target Target · Retail · NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park, MN

This role serves as Chief of Staff to a Technology Senior Vice President, acting as a strategic advisor and execution partner to align the SVP's portfolio with enterprise priorities and drive measurable impact. The role involves shaping strategy, clarifying trade-offs, managing resource allocation, and representing portfolio priorities. It also focuses on establishing operating rhythms, ensuring transparency on performance and risks, and facilitating data-informed decision-making. The position strengthens consistency and execution discipline across portfolios, surfaces interdependencies, and balances portfolio advocacy with enterprise-first thinking. Building domain expertise and translating complex technical topics into clear narratives for decision-making are key responsibilities. The role also contributes to a community of practice for shared standards and collective problem-solving.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as Chief of Staff to a Technology Senior Vice President during a transformational time for Target and the Tech team.
  2. You will act as a strategic advisor and execution partner, ensuring the SVP’s portfolio is aligned to enterprise priorities and positioned to deliver measurable impact.
  3. You will shape annual and multi-year strategy, clarify trade-offs, sequencing, and resource allocation decisions, and represent portfolio priorities in key enterprise forums.
  4. You will translate strategy into clear priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes, establishing and managing a strong operating rhythm across the portfolio, including strategic planning, quarterly business reviews, and leadership cadences.
  5. You will ensure transparency on performance, risks, and dependencies, proactively address challenges through data-informed, cross-functional decision-making, and build mechanisms that translate intent into action while sharpening focus on the highest-impact work.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in Strategy, Technology, Operations, Consulting, or related fields.
  • Proven ability to operate at senior levels within a complex, matrixed organization.
  • Strategic thinker with strong operational discipline and bias for action.
  • Exceptional communication skills, including executive storytelling and structured problem solving.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.
  • Strong judgment, high accountability, and comfort with ambiguity.
  • Skilled at driving clarity, prioritization, and thoughtful trade-offs.
  • Demonstrated experience contributing to or building a community of practice, enabling shared standards, knowledge exchange, and collective problem-solving across peers.

What the JD emphasized

  • transformational time
  • strategic advisor
  • execution partner
  • enterprise priorities
  • measurable impact
  • annual and multi-year strategy
  • resource allocation
  • key enterprise forums
  • clear priorities
  • measurable outcomes
  • strong operating rhythm
  • strategic planning
  • quarterly business reviews
  • leadership cadences
  • transparency on performance, risks, and dependencies
  • proactively address challenges
  • data-informed, cross-functional decision-making
  • sharpening focus on the highest-impact work
  • Technology Chief of Staff model
  • enterprise interdependencies
  • enterprise-first thinking
  • community of practice
  • shared standards
  • collective accountability
  • domain expertise
  • senior technical leaders
  • complex technical topics
  • enterprise-ready narratives
  • decision-making
  • alignment
  • personal and career development
  • strong Principal in Technology Strategy