SSP Principal Product Manager

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 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.
We are seeking innovators, risk-takers, and relentless tinkerers. We are looking for talented and experienced product professionals to help us lead the vision, roadmap, and agile execution for one of the most advanced advertising platforms on the market. This is an amazing opportunity for a product thinker who is ready to be challenged and build industry-changing products. If you are endlessly curious, fanatical about product design, and love thinking about complex problems in user-centric ways, then the Yahoo Product team may be a perfect fit for you. We are the Supply Product team, and as a Product Owner for our advertising platform, you will drive cross-platform alignment and initiatives for our supply-side products.
Description
We are looking for a talented and experienced Product Manager to help us lead the vision, roadmap, and agile execution of the Yahoo SSP that powers the world's most advanced programmatic platform for publishers. This is an amazing opportunity for an execution focused individual who is ready to be challenged and work with engineering to build industry-changing products.
Successful candidates will have shown the ability to ship quality product in a fast-paced environment. We expect you to be able to work and communicate across the organization at all levels. It is particularly important that you have experience working directly with engineers and engineering management. Exceptional candidates will be passionate about ongoing learning and improvement.
Responsibilities

• Establish a shared vision across the company by collaborating and communicating with business and technical stakeholders
• Be a domain expert and evangelize product vision so all stakeholders are aligned, have business & technical context and understand the product direction
• Work with scrum teams to execute upon the product vision and ensure on-time delivery with high quality
• Work directly with the engineering team as a product owner to help highlight requirements and solve problems
• Create and manage the roadmap, requirements and user stories with maximum clarity
• Interact with customers to develop a deep understanding of problems and provide support when necessary
• Communicate the strategy, plans and progress to stakeholders
• Prioritize long & short term initiatives, build trust and set expectations with stakeholders

Qualifications

• Ability to understand and analyze customer needs
• Ability to understand and diagnose the root cause of problems
• Excellent communications skills (written and oral), including communicating technical material to non-technical audiences
• Ability to communicate with management, business, and engineering
• Capable of balancing business, product, and engineering priorities
• Ability to lead by example
• Familiar with agile development principles
• Motivated problem solver with an entrepreneurial spirit
• Ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, evaluate tradeoffs and prioritize
• Experience working with a highly distributed team
• Driven to succeed with a high comfort level with ambiguity and fluidity, and the ability to make decisions in a rapidly changing environment while achieving quality results

Experience

• Multiple years of product management experience and demonstrated ability to deliver successful products
• Experience developing APIs
• Have driven features from end to end, including UI and backend
• Experience building product roadmap strategy and driving product execution
• Experience with Agile product development
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and GTM processes
• Experience in advertising technology a plus

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 ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) 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.
At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion ( www.yahooinc.com/diversity/ ) page to learn more.
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 ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) 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.
At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion ( www.yahooinc.com/diversity/ ) page to learn more.
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.
If hired for this position in Colorado, the compensation range for this position is between $121,875.00 - $203,125.00. The compensation may vary depending on your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include additional incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, plus equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, retirement, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act.
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