Sr. Product Manager, Platforms

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

A Little About Us 

At Yahoo, we operate thousands of services at global scale, reaching hundreds of millions of people around the world. Our internal developer platform powers these services and lets our developers build rapidly, securely, and with high quality. 

A Lot About You 

 We are looking for a motivated, technically strong Sr. Product Manager who is ready to own the vision and strategy for one of our critical platform pillars, primarily Cloud Runtime (Application Runtime/K8, Security Platform, Database Platform, Key/Value & Messaging, etc). In this role, you will partner with engineering leaders and stakeholders across all of Yahoo to find ways to accelerate business delivery and customer success.  

Responsibilities 

•  Deliver innovative platform solutions that reduce cognitive load, save costs, and improve the performance and reliability of engineering systems across the company 

• Serve as a subject matter expert and thought leader, evangelizing the platform's value and future roadmap to executive stakeholders.

• Work backwards from internal customers across the company to understand product and feature needs 

• Utilize various feedback gathering techniques, including surveys, interviews, product analytics, etc., to gain insight into customer needs and a unified platform experience

• Disambiguate and document customer problems and translate them into clearly defined minimum viable products 

• Define, measure, drive, and improve key product metrics to demonstrate clear ROI and accelerate business objectives 

• Collaborate with engineering, finance, procurement, and other functions to balance tradeoffs between costs, technical feasibility, timelines, and other constraints

• Partner with engineering to prioritize product capabilities and engineering needs

• Execute on go-to-market internally to drive adoption, usage, and close the feedback loop

• Contribute to setting the strategic vision for the platform  

• Define and execute an AI-first product roadmap, ensuring models are integrated seamlessly into the user experience and optimized for autonomous agent performance

Requirements 

•  M.S/B.S. in Computer Science/Engineering/Statistics (or equivalent experience)

• 4+ years of experience in product management working on cloud or developer tools

• 7+ years of industry experience in software services 

• Demonstrated deep technical understanding of cloud services and architectural patterns, preferably gained through prior software development experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Understanding of modern cloud services and architectural patterns  

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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