Senior Product Manager, Commerce

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Design, Effective communication skills, Leadership Skill, Product Management

Job Description

This Commerce product manager will be primarily responsible for optimizing the product and content experience across the ecosystem to lead Yahoo users to make informed shopping decisions. To achieve this ambitious and industry-shaping goal, this role will work collaboratively across all touch points in the Yahoo! ecosystem and across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design, UXR, Consumer Insights, and Marketing. 

We want someone to grow and operate our commerce touch points within the Yahoo Mail product for this role. With 200M monthly active users, the Mail product is a rich ecosystem for helping our users obtain the crucial information they need to make their purchase decisions and support them through their commerce journeys.

You are an exceptional strategic thinker, product leader, and executor with a proven track record of bringing large-scale repeat online behavior ideas to life. You will leverage creativity, market data and insights, product vision, and operational rigor to educate and influence senior leadership. You must be comfortable interfacing with various stakeholders across functions at all levels. Some travel may be required to meet with key stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with partners and leadership across many of Yahoo!'s properties to identify and champion work across several teams.
• Develop a commerce-centric product vision and strategy for commerce on Mail platforms
• Gain a deep understanding of the user journeys and behaviors of our user base and help design experiences to help them solve their problems
• Develop detailed business cases to identify viable opportunities and back up your product strategy
• Lead product strategy discussions across the organization
• Closely collaborate with business, legal, marketing, and operations teams to establish and expand brand partnerships
• Partner with design and engineering teams to translate your product vision into reality
• Be the internal expert on best practices in the industry for driving the most optimized commerce growth
• Collaborate with a wide range of internal partners whose efforts are also focused on guiding users to repeat value

About You: 

• 5-7 years of related work experience in Product Management
• BA/BS is required
• Creative-minded, with a passion for understanding customer problems
• Demonstrated success in accelerating cross-functional teams toward impact and learning
• Strong product sense - ability to understand consumer needs and figure simple ways to solve the needs through both qualitative and quantitative insights
• Domain expertise in driving repeat consumer behavior at a massive scale
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills 
• Rigorous and passionate experimentalist 
• Effective communicator across a wide range of organizational functions and domain familiarity
• Domain expertise in eCommerce, media, and/or related fields

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.

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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.