Yelp is seeking a seasoned Principal Product Manager to join their Applied Machine Learning Product team. In this role, you will drive product initiatives through the life cycle, collaborate with various stakeholders, and lead the adoption of critical ML applications across the company.
Responsibilities:
- Understand problems being solved by leaders from Product, Engineering, and other groups within the company and identify where ML can help accelerate outcomes
- Drive product outcomes through a combination of direct initiative, ownership, and influencing and advising on the roadmap of other product teams
- Own a horizontal ML problem space (e.g., personalization), scope opportunity and identify ML capability to build; ensure adoption of these capabilities across multiple vertical teams
- Collaborate with other ML PMs on the team to shape the roadmap for their areas in alignment with your charter
Requirements:
- Past experience working on ML applications is required
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, able to operate as a strong generalist across multiple problem spaces, and excited to turn ambiguous opportunities into product investments
- Thrive and excel at building trust with a wide set of product partners
- Strong foundational product skills—including product sense, execution, design thinking, problem discovery, and analytics—with the ability to apply your understanding of ML to drive impactful product outcomes
- Strong executive communication skills. This role will involve directly communicating with C-Suite leadership. You can get into the weeds to understand complex details, then distill that information for executive audiences and help them make informed decisions
- Comfort with both product strategy and operational execution
- 8+ years of product management experience