Lead Project Manager

We are seeking a Lead Project Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs that strengthen technology reliability, improve visibility and management of technical risk, and increase Target's ability to recover critical business capabilities.

The pay range for this role is $115,000.00 - $206,000.00 per year.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for Disaster Recovery, capability-based recovery, and technical risk visibility across priority Reliability programs and business capabilities.
• Connect application-level recovery planning to end-to-end business capability recovery, including objectives, dependencies, ownership, sequencing, playbooks, validation evidence, readiness, and residual risk.
• Plan and operationalize tabletop exercises and other recovery-validation activities, translating findings into prioritized, owned work with target dates, validation methods, and completion evidence.
• Establish practical governance and a shared view of known recovery and technical risks, actions, decisions, and escalation needs while keeping technical ownership with engineering teams.
• Lead complex cross-functional programs through strategy, integrated planning, delivery, and measurable outcomes, managing dependencies, resources, tradeoffs, and risk.
• Build trusted partnerships, remove roadblocks, create executive-ready reporting, and coach stakeholders to strengthen recovery planning, risk management, and execution.

Requirements

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• Five or more years of experience leading Disaster Recovery programs, recovery planning and testing, technology resilience, or closely related work.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional programs with senior leader visibility and applying program-management practices across scope, schedule, resources, communications, dependencies, change, and risk.
• Ability to translate technical risks, recovery dependencies, and business capability impacts into clear plans, decisions, executive communications, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Ability to develop sufficient technical and operational depth to partner credibly with engineers and technical leaders and lead through ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Experience with capability-based recovery, dependency mapping, tabletop exercises, incident recovery, or technical risk management is preferred. Relevant PMP, Disaster Recovery, business continuity, change management, agile is also preferred.

Benefits

Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more. 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.