Senior Product Manager (RX1000016248)

Yahoo! offers essential marketing services for companies doing business online. The group's search-based products and tools help businesses connect with highly motivated customers.

Sr. Product Manager, Content Match
Location: Burbank, CA

We are seeking an experienced, passionate, and highly-motivated Product Manager to provide leadership in building the next generation of networked advertising solutions for Yahoo and the broader universe of internet publishers. Yahoo's Content Match business is a dynamic ad network designed to optimize the ROI of Yahoo's unmatched advertiser base and the revenue of participating publishers through a combination of various targeting and optimization capabilities, such as contextual targeting.

The Sr. Product Manager, Interoperability, will be responsible leveraging internal and external technologies to improve the experience of our advertisers, publishers and users. The various technologies includes (but not limited to) ad serving, targeting, optimization, formats and controls. This position requires an energetic, experienced self-starter with a history of successful product initiatives. This position will be instrumental in guiding the vision and design of future advertising capabilities. The position requires engagement with many levels within the business as a visionary and champion; to plan, organize, motivate and communicate. Additionally, this role will focus on solid execution, guiding critical business trade off decisions in product functionality. The successful candidate must be passionate about the internet, digital media and implementing practical, high value added systems.

Responsibilities:

Help make a rapidly growing business unit leap frog the competition and bring Yahoo's full asset base to bear on a highly competitive ad network market and aggressively take share and producing next generation products for our customers
Help define the direction and design of the systems and associated business and engineering operations by optimizing revenue decisions across a very large scale, efficient marketplace advertising network
Flourish in, and help establish, a culture of idea generation, experimentation and rapid innovation
Work with multiple cross-functional teams to elicit, understand, rationalize and prioritize requests for new functionality. A sound, practical sense for what can be delivered and can impact the business is a must.
Ensure that selected priorities move forward aggressively and schedules are hit. Speed to market is an advantage.
Coordinate needs, design directions and architecture choices across the company as multiple businesses and platforms will all support the larger vision
Understand business process and policy dependencies for delivering new products and facilitate discussions to assess and address critical requirements.
Understand critical paths and dependencies for delivering and launching products and facilitate discussions between business teams, product management, corporate IT and Y!SM engineering.
Aggregate, organize, and synthesize product information in order to design solid pragmatic enhancements and communicate with senior business leaders and key constituents.

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years product management experience with strong customer orientation and desire to be innovative in the development of world-class business solutions that will impact sales, marketing, service and many other facets of the Y!SM business.
Proactive, entrepreneurial and strategically oriented individuals with experience in all stages and aspects of product management with a proven history of delivering complex technology products and solutions to market.
Candidates must possess the ability to build an excellent rapport with internal business constituents; product managers; engineers and technologists and industry visionaries to synthesize requirements for product roadmaps and to set priorities.
Candidates must be able to develop an excellent grasp of the strategic, competitive and economic dimensions of Yahoo!'s business.
Candidates must be flexible and able to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines imposed by rapid business growth, including the ability to multi-task and juggle many competing priorities and deadlines.
The ability to move forward and execute on incremental improvements rapidly where possible
Demonstrated ability to work with interdisciplinary teams and effectively communicate priorities, delivery expectations, risks and concerns to senior management.
Strong organizational, design and execution skills.
Ability to be extremely detail oriented and to use analysis to drive decisions. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and extremely detail oriented.

Preferred Qualifications:
Candidates with direct experience in internet publisher ad serving, advertiser ad serving, network yield and campaign optimization are very strongly preferred.
Knowledge of financial markets and systems a plus.

To apply for this position, please email your resume in text, MS Word or HTML format to careers@yahoo-inc.com for consideration. The subject line of your email must include this JOB ID and source code: 16248


About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! seeks to provide online products and services essential to users' lives, and offers a full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com