Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

Yahoo is a global media and technology leader, connecting nearly 900 million people worldwide to the things they’re most passionate about. Whether it’s finance, sports, shopping, gaming, or news, we bring people closer to what they love every day through trusted products, high-quality content, and technology designed to make life better.

Yahoo’s Mail Data Team is seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead data-driven initiatives focused on analyzing core user actions within Yahoo Mail. This role is a fantastic opportunity for a product manager with a strong background in data science, analytics, and instrumentation, who thrives on transforming raw data into actionable insights. You will be instrumental in tracking short- and long-term user behaviors, supporting experimental product features, and encouraging the development of a more mature self-service model.

What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities):

• Execute on Roadmap: Collaborate and Interact with various cross-functional product and engineering teams to detail the path to accomplishing Data Science Roadmap.

• Self-Service Data Solutions: Drive initiatives that promote a self-service approach, enabling data consumers to access and utilize insights independently.

• Cross Team Collaboration: Act as a strategic liaison for engineering, business, and product teams, translating complex data needs into clear, actionable product requirements.

• User Analytics & Insights: Understand the logical data needs behind requirements and work with teams to build internal reporting and data insight tools and develop the respective roadmaps to success.

• Feature Experimentation Support: Collaborate closely with product teams to design, monitor, and analyze experiments for new Mail features, ensuring rigorous tracking and impactful evaluation of product performance.

Day to Day

• Work cross functionally with user experience product managers and analytics teams to define requirements for new features or reporting capabilities.

• Define success metrics and use data insights to continuously optimize for partners in product, engineering, and leadership.

• Quickly become a subject matter expert on Yahoo Mail’s Data’s product capabilities and the needs of key partners.

• Work with teams for instrumentation hygiene.

What we look for:

• Experience: 5+ years of product management experience, ideally within a data-centric product or analytics team. Familiarity with metrics, instrumentation, and data science is essential.

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Demonstrated analytical skills and experience leveraging data to guide product strategies.

• Technical Proficiency: A Solid understanding of big data processing patterns and available tools for visualization and experimentation on public clouds at scale. (GCP given Preference, AWS/Azure applicable)

• Customer Orientation: Proven ability to collaborate and help drive customers to capture evolving data requirements and implement effective solutions.

• Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving collaboration with engineering, product, centralized data, and analytical teams.

• Product Sense: The ability to understand and translate partner needs into product features and roadmaps, with a strong focus on delivering value to end users.

• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex technical ideas to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Analytical Ability: Strong analytical skills to assess performance and make data-driven decisions.

Ideal Candidate Attributes:

• Execution Lead: Skilled at executing and advancing a pre-defined analytics roadmap, bringing focus and clarity to uncovering meaningful insights on user behavior in Yahoo Mail. Capable of fleshing out details, driving initiatives forward, and effectively communicating progress and results to stakeholders.

• Self-Service Advocate: Passionate about empowering internal stakeholders with self-service data solutions.

• Platform Product Management: This role will have you working to serve customers in Engineering, Product, and Leadership. The best decisions come from your ability to provide to them needs from throughout Mail and other parts of Yahoo

Why Join Us?

Yahoo Mail is our flagship inbox for hundreds of millions of users. It’s the ultimate way to access email and stay organized across all your devices. Designed with a clean interface and lightning-fast speed, Yahoo Mail takes email management to a whole new level, making it effortless to read, organize, and connect in the ways that matter most.

At Yahoo’s Mail Data Team, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of Yahoo Mail through data insights. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of data and user experience, driving innovations that directly impact millions of users. Join us to make a lasting impact on one of Yahoo’s core products!

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.

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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 (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $120,750.00 - $251,250.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

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.

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