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Director of Technology - Product Security (Application Security)

Target

$163,000 - $294,000
Jun 10, 2025
Brooklyn Park, MN, US
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Protect billions of customer interactions annually by leading the Product Security mission to enable the secure development of software at scale and build a culture of security across Target Tech.

Requirements

  • 4-year degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in software development.
  • 1-3 years’ experience in application security or a relentless passion to build a world-class application security ecosystem for 5,000 developers.
  • Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly.
  • Experience with static and dynamic scanning, open source security, penetration testing, bug bounty, security champions and several proprietary and patented capabilities to scale application security across Target’s technology team.
  • Experience with threat modeling.
  • Experience with AI and emerging technologies.
  • Experience with data and metrics to make decisions, reduce risk and drive adoption of key capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a combination of in-house developed tools and vendor solutions to discover and remediate security flaws and vulnerabilities in over 8,000 applications.
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure a culture of security across Target Tech.
  • Think creatively to address the cycle of vulnerability discovery and remediation at scale while translating the impact of vulnerabilities into business risk language.
  • Continuously evaluate new threats, attack vectors, and emerging technologies (including AI) to inform the roadmap for Product Security.
  • Oversee a bug bounty program where security researchers responsibly disclose vulnerabilities.
  • Drive further adoption of threat modeling across Target tech.
  • Ensure operational maturity, system stability and observability.

Other

  • 4+ years of managing teams with a strong track record of successful project delivery and customer adoption.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information to a variety of audiences.
  • Successful history of working in large enterprise technology ecosystems leading complex technology teams.
  • Strong collaboration skills, effective management of complex cross-team initiatives and leads with the desire to enable our engineering teams.
  • Experience applying organizational psychology or behavioral science in a leadership, coaching, or cultural transformation context (desired).
  • Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs.