Principal Product Manager, Yahoo News Apps

Yahoo is a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, offering a portfolio of iconic products. As a Principal Product Manager for the Yahoo News App, you will shape and deliver the product vision for a personalized mobile news experience, guiding cross-functional teams to improve user engagement and product quality.

Responsibilities:

• Shape product strategy for features that improve engagement, trust, and long term user value
• Turn complex signals, data, and feedback into clear product opportunities and direction
• Lead ideation, prioritization, and delivery of content and discovery experiences that help users stay informed
• Refine onboarding, navigation, and notification experiences to drive growth and retention
• Collaborate across engineering, design, editorial, data, and platform teams to ship reliable and scalable features
• Raise the quality of specs, design reviews, and product decisions through thoughtful feedback and structured thinking
• Advance a culture of fast learning through research, testing, and iteration
• Help teams balance speed and quality and make clear tradeoffs in pursuit of meaningful outcomes
• Provide mentorship and guidance to PMs and cross functional partners and help elevate decision making across the team
• Influence roadmap planning and investment decisions at the pillar level and ensure visibility with senior leadership

Requirements:

• Deep experience building and shipping mobile apps in Android and iOS
• Highly effective written and presentation communication skills in a cross-functional and remote environment
• Seven or more years of product management or related experience delivering meaningful consumer facing products
• Proven ability to create clarity from complex or noisy information and turn it into strong product direction
• Demonstrated strength in setting priorities and driving outcomes with speed, conviction, and structure
• Deep instincts in understanding user needs and turning them into simple and effective experiences
• Fluency in data analysis, experimentation, and user research and the ability to translate insights into momentum
• Experience guiding cross functional teams and aligning engineering, design, editorial, and platform partners
• Experience working in content, media, or other ecosystems where trust, quality, and relevance shape user expectations
• Experience in news, media, streaming, or content heavy products
• Familiarity with video, audio, and interactive storytelling formats
• Ability to create order, clarity, and forward progress in complex product spaces
• Experience operating in fast moving consumer product organizations that ship continuously