Technical Sr. Product Manager, Yahoo Mail

About

• Yahoo: Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports to shopping, gaming and news-with the trusted products, content, and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.

• Yahoo Mail: delivers more than 4 Billion emails on a daily basis and is used by more than 220M users. These users have different needs, different habits and different behaviors. But they are all similar when it comes to their expectations: They are all expecting contextual personalized experiences and a delightful, intelligent product.

• Yahoo Communications (Including Yahoo Mail & more) Vision & Mission: Make communication simple, enjoyable, and more productive; By being the best platform for running the business of life.

Your day-to-day: You will be part of the Revenue and Intelligence Inbox Commerce Product Team.

• Building product graphs, mail data taxonomies and their definitions and guidelines.

• Deeply understanding different consumers' personas, their pain points & commercial user journeys that can be unlocked and resolved through the capabilities of your platform.

• Translating product & business goals into technical requirements.

• Analyzing and drawing key conclusions about the platform quality, future product & market opportunities from raw and refined product data.

• Employing Machine Learning and Data Science to scale our Mail intelligence capabilities.

• Evangelizing how product intelligence and mail content understanding capabilities can personalize user experiences and contribute to key business OKRs.

• Effectively work across many leading-edge technology areas and across multiple cross-functional partners to evangelize world class intelligence capabilities and pipelines.

What are we looking for?

• 5+ years experience as a Product Manager, ideally related to backend systems, and platform technical focused roles

• Ability to envision business impact for technical products, platforms or services

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills. The ability to communicate complicated technical and scientific jargon in a seamless easy fashion to non-technical audiences.

• Superior analytical and quantitative skills

• Highly collaborative team player, who thrives in a fast paced environment.

• Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated critical thinking capabilities

• Solid understanding of software development, familiarity with machine learning and how evaluation data can help improve those products.

• Sufficient technical depth to succeed in a highly technical product role and earning the respect of world-class engineers and researchers.

• Passion for eCommerce and technology.

Preferable skills:

• Experience with Information Retrieval, Data Extractions and content scanning.

• Experience working with taxonomies and ontologies.

• Experience with eCommerce Marketplaces.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form () or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion () page to learn more.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don't require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you'll be given notice to make arrangements.

If you're curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.