Vice President of Product Management (Yahoo Mail)

About The Organization

Yahoo, with a strong foundation of 900 million users monthly, is in the midst of a renaissance; backed by substantial investment to drive meaningful, long-term growth, led by great products. Are you up for the challenge of writing the story of one of biggest consumer product success stories in history? This won't be easy, but if you're motivated by huge opportunities, backed by an organization that is ready to invest in bold initiatives, and can't wait to start building, Yahoo is the place for you.

Yahoo is composed of organizations, each led by a GM, driving key product lines. This role is within the Yahoo Communications group, which includes its flagship product, Yahoo Mail (with 200M monthly users). You will be starting on offense; the product line (4.5 star apps & responsive web experiences), business, and tech (modern front-end stacks with significant backend re-architecture just beginning) provides a healthy start, with lots of upside to realize. Now, we need you to be a key part of our next chapter - embarking on the mission to create the best consumer-focused platform for running the "business of life," in email and beyond.

About the role

• Lead & grow the product organization for Yahoo Communications (flagship product: Yahoo Mail), responsible for delivering on both product strategy and execution, identifying customer needs, and working with cross functional teams to design and build remarkable experiences that grow the business

• You report directly to the GM of Yahoo Communications and be part of the leadership team shaping strategy & tactics (product managers report to you; other roles like engineering, design, and program management will report to your peers)

• Maintain strong working relationships with key business & technology stakeholders at the most senior levels within Yahoo and partners

• Improve large-scale existing properties and refreshing with net new experiences and adjacent products (improvement on the core, and innovation in what's next)

• Shape a vision, providing leadership to develop strategic assets through innovation, creativity, and technology in the Communications vertical for Yahoo

Responsibilities

You will lead & own consumer product for this organization & all that entails, notably:

• Take a customer-focused and evidence-based approach to defining, executing, and delivering a product roadmap and product strategy

• Be accountable for driving key business metrics including user engagement & growth

• Manage, mentor, develop, and grow a team of product managers

• Represent the product internally and externally

• Raise the quality bar for all teams that contribute to product experiences

• Collaborate closely with other product leaders; especially to drive and define a vibrant product culture

• Assist in guiding significant technical investment and architectural decisions, to support long-term product initiatives

• Collaborate with senior leaders across Engineering, Design, Customer Success and Marketing to develop and execute Yahoo Mail's strategy

• Lead all consumer-facing product functions and have a voice in how we grow and build the organization

• Anticipate the company's needs as we scale and grow, ensuring existing team members and the broader company are inspired by the product vision

Qualifications

• Track record of driving consumer internet product growth through product creation or improvement (growth tactics substantial increase in core product value)

• Experience building highly engaging consumer software experiences at scale, across a multi-product suite

• Experience creating business cases for new product capabilities/innovations

• Preferred experience: Expanding & enhancing a legacy product line

• Experience defining a product strategy, with deep understanding of how investments will ladder up to that strategy through initiatives and roadmaps

• Successful track record of leading complex product strategies across a breadth of disciplines

• Demonstrated user empathy

• End-to-end ownership mindset

• Impeccable consumer experience product sense

• Ability to clearly communicate, verbally, and in written form - especially necessary when explaining how product initiatives drive business success

• Alignment with our organization's values: caring for our people, integrity, user empathy, candor, small things matter (in product & our processes), being audacious, and bringing joy.

• Experience building, guiding, and growing high-performing product teams, including promoting product-led company culture, and experience coaching and developing Product Managers, empowering them and setting them up for continued success and broad impact

• 10 years of experience in product management

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 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 () or call 408-336-1409. 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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US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.

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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