Principal Product Manager, Yahoo Sports App

Yahoo Sports connects fans to the sports and fantasy games they love most, providing personalized quality content and superior fan experiences every day.

A Little About Us

We are sports fans. We love our teams (and our fantasy teams). We love our code, our data, our products, and our people. We are relentless about improving our products to make them the best place for die-hard sports fans to follow, analyze, and talk about the sports they love. We are looking for someone who shares our values to join our team and make us even better.

We are driven to improve our industry-leading products, and to identify and solve real customer problems that will help fans embrace their passion for sports on a deeper level. This role provides an incredible opportunity to contribute to products that millions of sports fanatics love and use every day.

The right candidate will possess a mixture of quantitative chops and creative intuition– someone who loves digging into the data to drive insights and improve our products incrementally, while at the same time identifying the most impactful opportunity spaces to explore and grow. If you’re passionate about sports and have experience leading data-driven product improvements, keep reading.

The Role

As a Principal Product Manager within the Sports organization at Yahoo, you will be responsible for collaborating on a strategy and execution plan to serve sports fans, leading a team of engineers and designers to deliver measurable results. You will build a roadmap that solves the most impactful customer problems, while providing value to the core business. You’ll help create a cohesive vision, as well as define objectives and measurable goals to communicate impact and progress against the roadmap. You’ll collaborate closely with other teams across the Sports organization, as well as other cross-functional partners in engineering, design, marketing, programming, and analytics to develop the set of projects and requirements to execute against. In doing so, you’ll have the ability to leverage the scale and resources of Yahoo’s platform to grow the Sports business. This role will report to the Sr Director of Product, Core Sports.

A Lot About You

Product Strategy & Execution

• Expertly translates strategic goals into achievable milestone-based initiatives, roadmaps, and technical requirements.

• Uses frameworks for prioritization based on business and user needs.

• Optimizes the team’s work for driving impact – shipping and learning, making clear decisions on investing or abandoning projects as early as possible based on key results.

• Anticipates, captures and communicates the impact of product decisions on revenue and customer experience.

Customer Insights

• Demonstrated experience identifying customer problems, and articulating opportunities and potential impact in solving them.

• Uses customer feedback and research insights to develop product hypotheses, and strategies to validate them.

• Identifies key success metrics at the project level to understand impact, and collaborates with their partners to ensure the measures are trackable and monitored.

• Drives product decisions using a heavy dose of data via experimentation or deeper analysis, while not ignoring their strong product intuition.

Team Collaboration

• Excellent communicator who can deploy a wide variety of communication approaches based on situation and level to align and mobilize teams against complex initiatives.

• Builds strong relationships across functions and organizations through on-time delivery, high quality products, and innovative solutions.

• Clearly communicates rationale behind prioritization decisions to senior leadership and key stakeholders, and keeps the organization informed on progress.

• Creates artifacts to ensure stakeholders can track decisions and project statuses easily. 

• Proactively resolves team-level conflicts, and seeks support appropriately.

• Successfully influences team members, stakeholders and leaders to support and contribute to strategic initiatives.

• Listens, aligns and motivates both individuals and teams around shared goals.

You Must Have:

• 5+ years experience as a Product Manager driving consumer-focused experiences across native apps & web.

• 2+ years experience as a Sr. PM/Principal PM responsible for setting the strategic direction, product goals, and roadmap for an independently operating team.

Nice to Have(s):

• Experience managing projects that involve large datasets of complex, real-time information.

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