Principal Product Manager, Yahoo Sports Revenue Optimization

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 ourselves and 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 solve problems that will make sports fans enjoy their favorite teams on a deeper level. This role provides an incredible opportunity to contribute to products that millions of users love and engage with 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 while at the same time identifying the open space where we can grow. If you’re passionate about sports and have experience leading data-driven product improvements, keep reading.

The Role

As the Principal Product Manager, Revenue Optimization for Yahoo Sports, you will be responsible for defining and prioritizing a roadmap that balances business, advertiser, and user needs across a diverse set of monetization products (direct & programmatic display ads, commerce, native, social, newsletters, subscriptions and video). You’ll be responsible for ensuring goals are met by helping teams prioritize, execute, and measure success on revenue initiatives.  To be successful, you’ll need to influence other teams' roadmaps and be fluent in communicating across cross functional teams including engineering, design, marketing, sales, and analytics. It’s an exciting opportunity where you’ll have the ability to leverage the scale and resources of Yahoo’s businesses to make a big impact on the Yahoo Sports business. This role will report to the Director of Product, Revenue Optimization.

A Lot About You

The ideal candidate will have a track record demonstrating success across product competencies: 

Product Strategy & Execution

• Uses frameworks for prioritization based on business and user need

• Expertly translates business goals into both milestone based roadmaps and technical requirements 

• Adjusts scope, pivots, or abandons projects as early as possible when they are not delivering expected results 

• Anticipates, captures and communicates the impact of revenue tradeoffs 

Customer Insight

• Demonstrates experience balancing quality consumer experiences with long-term value generation

• Drives business decisions using a heavy dose of data (especially A/B testing) and some intuition when not all data is available 

• Identifies key success metrics at project level and collaborates with analysts to ensure the measures are trackable and monitored 

Team Building 

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

• Clearly communicates rationale behind prioritization decisions to senior leadership and key stakeholders

• Create artifacts to ensure stakeholders can track decisions and project status 

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

• Deploys a wide variety of communication approaches based on situation

• Listens, aligns and motivates peers, leadership, and teams around shared goals

You Must Have:

• 6+ years experience as a Product Manager driving user and revenue growth across desktop/mobile web & app 

• 3+ years track record of executing revenue projects that show thoughtful prioritization and a balance between optimizing RPMs and user experience

• Experience collaborating with demand/yield teams to drive eCPM growth 

Nice to Have(s):

• Familiarity with Google Ad Manager is a huge plus

• Familiarity with monetization strategies on both content driven sites as well as Fantasy games

• Familiarity with how advertisers are buying media and the operational workflows to traffic and report on advertising campaigns

• Familiarity with contextual and behavioral advertising and how the current landscape is evolving 

• Familiarity with Looker or other analytics platforms 

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