Senior Director Product Marketing - Yahoo Mail

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with over 220 million 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 Mail is a global product across 40 countries and 70 languages with over 200M users across desktop, mobile web and native apps. Yahoo Mail's apps are the highest rated email app with 4.7 stars on iOS and 4.5 stars on Android. The Yahoo Mail Product Marketing team bridges the gap between the user and the product, providing critical direction and strategy for multiple disciplines including acquisition, retention, and engagement.
We move fast, show our personality, and are relentlessly focused on inspiring and delighting our users everyday. Product Marketing is responsible for a broad range of inbound and outbound initiatives that support Yahoo's product suite and brand promise: to reduce the friction between productivity and people, helping users manage the ins and outs of daily life. If you flourish in a fast-paced, fun but demanding environment and have been an integral part of teams that have built breakthrough marketing strategies, then Yahoo Product Marketing might be your match made in heaven.
The Senior Director Product Marketing for Yahoo Mail is a leadership role and is responsible for the overall marketing strategy, specific campaigns, and product communications to drive the positioning and product adoption for Yahoo Mail, including sign-ups, app downloads, and feature adoption. You will partner with other members of the Yahoo Mail leadership team to develop the Yahoo Mail strategy and to ensure the voice of the customer is reflected in product strategies, features, and definition. This role partners with the Media team to drive acquisition and engagement through paid, owned and operated channels. They will also partner with Creative teams and agencies to develop creative assets used throughout the user funnel. This role occasionally includes planning user research to understand current users, user needs and identify new growth segments. As the Senior Director Product Marketing, you will be responsible for leading and coaching a high performance and growing team of product marketers focused on Yahoo Mail. We are a growth-oriented organization with a heavy focus on conducting and analyzing experiments and then iterating and applying the insights in a consistent and fast-paced loop. If you like to make data-based decisions and flex your creativity in a nimble environment, then we'd like to talk to you.
Responsibilities:

• Own/refine the global product positioning for Yahoo Mail and branding across a developing portfolio of consumer products.
• Define the go-to-market strategy and marketing plans and optimize a campaign once in market
• Manage a team of product marketers to develop and execute GTMs with excellence
• Build differentiated value propositions, pricing models, and promotions, and source customer evidence and 3rd party proof points across key global markets
• Engage and influence internal stakeholders across Product, Media, Engineering, and Business Planning, Channel Marketing, PR, and Sales/Field teams
• Be a subject matter expert about Productivity products with specific focus on native mobile apps including subscriptions and in-app purchases to drive strategy and marketing plans for growth
• Develop a structure and process that carves out a dedicated space for innovation and in-market testing of repeatable, scalable, brand- and audience-building marketing ideas across the portfolio of Productivity products.
• Architect strategy and high profile campaigns, promotions, partnerships and content initiatives to achieve key KPIs and execute against the acquisition, engagement, and retention goals for Yahoo Mail across available marketing channels including product onboarding, CRM, social, mobile networks, SEM, and Yahoo Network

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree. MBA is strongly preferred.
• An expert marketer with 15+ years of digital product marketing experience, ideally with direct experience in mobile apps.
• Strong leadership, exceptional communication skills, and experience with Executives, Analysts and Press
• Demonstrated familiarity with sophisticated go-to-market strategies with a focus on platforms, finance, investing, or e-commerce
• Demonstrated track record of executing global marketing programs that drove acquisition, engagement, and retention with proven results.
• Experience building frameworks for strategic decisions
• Analytical & problem-solving skills to dissect & work through complex challenges
• Building trusted relationships across functional groups (Product, Creative, Editorial, Sales etc) including at the executive level

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The compensation for this position ranges from $162,375.00 - $318,125.00/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.
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