Job Description

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.
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Yahoo employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business--and the world. Want in?
A Little About Us
The DSP Data product team at Yahoo! serves all Yahoo! ad products serving advertisers and publishers, with billions of users and dollars under influence. The DSP Data team is responsible for powering all data-driven products and capabilities of the Yahoo DSP, including targeting, insights, measurement, data pipelines, identity, and trust use-cases.
As a Product Manager on the DSP Data team, you will be responsible for managing the roadmap and execution of the engineering team(s) in the measurement & identity product areas, and driving the development of new features and partnering on cross-product feature development from ideation to launch.
A Little About You
Deal with Ambiguity: You are a problem solver and a problem finder before that. You love working on challenging, ambiguous, and unstructured problems. As the industry keeps evolving at an unprecedented pace, our needs around personalization and user privacy keep evolving just as quickly.
Tech-savvy: You have an inquisitive mind and constantly update yourself with the latest in the relevant AI tech and competitors' capabilities and strategies. You can act as the interface between engineers and the business and translate business & product needs into technical requirements.
Get into the weeds: You are extremely data-driven, and you have basic database query skills so that you can analyze data on your own and not be dependent on others to perform analysis.
Work with cross-functional teams: As a member of the DSP Data product team, you are able to coordinate and work with multiple cross-functional teams across different countries to build consensus and alignment around their own product areas.
Excellent communicator: You have the ability to translate complex business challenges into simple and clear language for our engineering team.
Your Responsibilities
Communicating with internal and external stakeholders & customers about product ideas and feature requirements.
Working with peer product managers to define cross-functional feature requirements and implementation roadmap items.
Defining product requirements/user stories and launching new product capabilities using Agile methodology.
Working with engineering to understand the underlying technologies & trade-offs needed to put high-quality solutions in place.
Leading an agile engineering scrum team(s) to deliver value for customers quickly while iterating towards your long-term vision.
Bringing to market product-based solutions & features across multiple delivery teams (PM, Engineering, user docs, marketing, sales, etc.)
Align with analytics and metrics - KPIs that drive business growth and engagement.
Engage with "hands-on keyboard" users to collect user feedback and apply to future features.
Requirements
Proven track record of results, demonstrated accountability for achieving individual and shared goals, especially in challenging situations.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think independently.
Keen eye on data integrations and data measurement solutions.
Exceptional listening and communication skills (written, verbal).
2+ years experience in a tech company in a related position (PM, Engineering, Project Mgmt, Technical Support, Technical Sales, Technical / Professional Services or Consulting, etc.).
An ability to multitask, organize & lead complex features, detail orientation, and be able to summarize.
Experience delivering products using Agile & Tribes/Squads software development & Engineering practices.
A good understanding of privacy, identity, and measurement technologies in the ad-tech industry is a plus, including advertising measurement methodologies, such as causal inference and incrementality.
Important notes for your attention
Applications:
All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo. We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates' applications. No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant's behalf in the hiring process.
Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you. Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.
Offer Distributions:
Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails.
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 ( ) 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.
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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