Product Manager - DSP Data

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us

The DSP Data team at Yahoo powers many features and components for Yahoo DSP, including targeting, identity, measurement, insights, data collaboration and more. We contribute to Yahoo DSP's success and help deliver hundreds of billions of ads across the world every year.

As part of the Partner Ecosystem team, we facilitate both data in and data out aspects of our Customer Data Collaboration platform. We are looking for a Product Manager to manage the roadmap and execution of our outbound data feeds & cleanroom engineering teams and cross functional feature development with external and internal partner teams. 

Role is open to applicants in US (East Coast preferred)

A Little About You

• Deal with Ambiguity: You are a problem solver and a problem finder before that. You love working on challenging, ambiguous, and unstructured problems. As the industry keeps evolving at an unprecedented pace, our needs to drive customer objectives via data are evolving just as quickly.

• Tech-savvy: You have an inquisitive mind and constantly update yourself with the latest in the relevant tech and competitors’ capabilities and strategies. You can act as the interface between engineers and the business and translate business & product needs into technical requirements.

• Get into the weeds: You are extremely data-driven, and you have database query skills so that you can analyze data on your own and not be dependent on others to perform analysis.

• Work with cross-functional teams: As a member of the Partner Ecosystem team, you are able to coordinate and work with multiple cross-functional teams across different countries to build consensus and alignment around their own product areas.

• Excellent communicator: You have the ability to translate complex business challenges into simple and clear language for our engineering team. 

Your Responsibilities 

• Collaborative communication  with internal and external stakeholders & customers about product ideas and feature requirements.

• Working with peer product managers to define cross-functional feature requirements and product roadmaps.

• Defining product requirements/user stories and launching new product capabilities using Agile methodology.

• Working closely with engineering to understand the underlying technologies & trade-offs needed to put high-quality solutions in place.

• Leading an agile engineering team(s) to deliver value for customers quickly while iterating towards your long-term vision.  

• Bringing to market product-based solutions & features across multiple delivery teams (Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, Technical Writing, etc.)

• Align with analytics and metrics – define KPIs that drive business growth and engagement.

• Interfacing with external solution providers and influencing their roadmaps to meet business objectives. 

Requirements

• Proven track record of results, demonstrated accountability for achieving individual and shared goals.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think independently.

• Keen eye on backend feature development, data processing, data management,  and data discovery solutions.

• Exceptional listening and communication skills (written, verbal)

• 2+ years experience in a tech company in a related position (Product, Engineering, Technical Support, etc)

• An ability to multitask, organize & lead complex feature deliverables, and be able to synthesize and summarize intricate data problems.

• Experience delivering products using Agile / Kanban / Scrum software development & Engineering practices.

• A broad understanding of web & internet technologies, application development tech, and IT infrastructure; direct Ad Tech experience is a plus.

• Background in log level processing and/or data cleanrooms is a plus.

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