Sr. Product Manager, Platforms

Yahoo is a technology company that connects brands and partners with a vast audience. They are seeking a motivated Sr. Product Manager to own the vision and strategy for their critical platform pillars, working with engineering leaders to enhance business delivery and customer success.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver innovative platform solutions that reduce cognitive load, save costs, and improve the performance and reliability of engineering systems across the company
• Serve as a subject matter expert and thought leader, evangelizing the platform's value and future roadmap to executive stakeholders
• Work backwards from internal customers across the company to understand product and feature needs
• Utilize various feedback gathering techniques, including surveys, interviews, product analytics, etc., to gain insight into customer needs and a unified platform experience
• Disambiguate and document customer problems and translate them into clearly defined minimum viable products
• Define, measure, drive, and improve key product metrics to demonstrate clear ROI and accelerate business objectives
• Collaborate with engineering, finance, procurement, and other functions to balance tradeoffs between costs, technical feasibility, timelines, and other constraints
• Partner with engineering to prioritize product capabilities and engineering needs
• Execute on go-to-market internally to drive adoption, usage, and close the feedback loop
• Contribute to setting the strategic vision for the platform
• Define and execute an AI-first product roadmap, ensuring models are integrated seamlessly into the user experience and optimized for autonomous agent performance

Requirements:

• M.S/B.S. in Computer Science/Engineering/Statistics (or equivalent experience)
• 4+ years of experience in product management working on cloud or developer tools
• 7+ years of industry experience in software services
• Demonstrated deep technical understanding of cloud services and architectural patterns, preferably gained through prior software development experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of modern cloud services and architectural patterns