Principal Product Manager, Client Platforms - Yahoo Mail

Yahoo is seeking a Principal Product Manager for Yahoo Mail to lead the product strategy and execution for its client platforms. This role involves overseeing the product vision, ensuring security and compliance, and managing cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences across various platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product vision and roadmap for Yahoo Mail’s client platforms and shared services across web, iOS, Android, and emerging surfaces
• Define and shape the strategic roadmaps for Yahoo Mail client platforms, including decisions around codebases, architectural patterns, and technology investments that enable long-term scalability and maintainability
• Partner closely with application engineering teams to ensure client platforms are built and operated in a cost-efficient manner, balancing performance, developer velocity, and operational complexity
• Drive adoption of modern technologies and platform capabilities to deliver fast, reliable, and secure user experiences across all clients
• Lead cross-platform initiatives spanning authentication, identity, privacy, security, and compliance, in close collaboration with central platform teams
• Act as the connective tissue between client engineering, experience-focused product managers, and backend platform teams, ensuring cohesive end-to-end execution
• Drive platform consistency while enabling differentiated experiences across clients where appropriate
• Lead complex platform transitions, service separations, and long-running partner support programs that require coordination across multiple teams, organizations, and external stakeholders
• Ensure client platforms are resilient to organizational change, capable of operating independently where required, and aligned with long-term commercial, legal, and regulatory constraints
• Represent Yahoo Mail in executive-level discussions related to platform strategy, technical risk, timelines, and tradeoffs
• Define and track success metrics across performance, security posture, reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity, using data to guide prioritization and investment decisions

Requirements:

• 10+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of platforms, infrastructure-adjacent products, or large-scale client systems
• Experience building and operating consumer applications at scale
• Proven ability to define and evolve shared capabilities used by many teams, balancing consistency with flexibility
• Strong technical fluency across client architectures, authentication and identity systems, privacy and security controls, and platform integrations
• Demonstrated success leading ambiguous, multi-year initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, external dependencies, and contractual considerations
• Exceptional ability to align engineering, legal, privacy, security, commercial, and executive stakeholders around a common plan
• Strong instincts for risk management, sequencing, and tradeoffs in high-impact, high-visibility environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical, organizational, and platform concepts to senior audiences
• A genuine interest in building products that empower people in their day-to-day lives
• Direct experience with email platforms or messaging systems
• Familiarity with the complexity and constraints of email ecosystems (deliverability, trust, abuse prevention, identity, and standards)