Sr. Product Manager, 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.
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Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports to shopping, gaming and news-with the trusted products, content, and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.
Yahoo Mail team is looking for senior product managers- a passion for technology, product, and design -to tackle the most significant challenges we can find. As a Senior Product Manager, you will reinvigorate the world-class Yahoo WebMail experience to make it delightful, engaging, and effective. A passionate commitment to customer experience and product quality.
Keep a strong bias for stepping up and taking action, yet demonstrate a willingness to learn and take guidance.

• What we look for:
  
  • Experience: Product management experience of 5+ years for consumers products ( desktop experience is a MUST)
  • Product sense: Experience creating consumer-facing products. Strong product sense with an ability to envision technology solutions that address user needs and market opportunities. Mobile experience would be a must.
  • Analytical ability: Excellent problem solving and analytical skills: you should be able to break down open-ended problems and move forward in the face of ambiguity.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit: Passion for technology products and services. Show us what you've built. Tell us what products you love, how you want to change this space, and why.
  • Leadership: Experience executing projects and partnering with cross-functional teams to drive high-quality results. Embrace the challenges that come with a fast-paced, creative, and innovative technology environment.
  • Communication skills: Strong written and oral communication skills in order to work effectively with engineering, design, and cross-functional teams
  • Technical understanding: Past technical experience, or equivalent technical understanding. You should know what it takes to build tech products and drive technical decisions with engineers.

• Your day-to-day:
  
  • Drive the overall product vision, strategy, roadmap, and requirements for your product.
  • Synthesize and prioritize user needs and own the narrative of what problem should be solved, for whom, how, and why it matters.
  • Build consensus and work collaboratively with engineering, design, and other key stakeholders.
  • Define success metrics and analyze performance, balancing quantitative and qualitative insights to drive decisions and iterate quickly.
  • Get up to speed quickly in new domains, becoming a subject matter expert who leads by example.

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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.
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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