Yelp empowers millions of small and local businesses to manage their online presence and connect with customers. They are seeking a visionary and strategic Principal Product Manager to lead the transformation of their Sales & Customer Success platforms through AI, driving significant revenue and enhancing team performance.
Responsibilities:
- Foster and build a fun, diverse, and inclusive culture that reflects Yelp’s values
- Set and articulate the vision, especially around AI by defining, championing, and evangelizing the future direction
- Drive strategy and execution through creating a roadmap, breaking down the vision into actionable steps, and delivering across 5+ engineering teams
- Deliver tangible impact executing with urgency, ensuring we innovate rapidly and exceeding business goals
- Ensure cross-functional alignment while engaging with SVPs of Sales/CS, Revenue Operations leaders, and engineering heads to align priorities and accelerate progress
- Communicate with executive leadership providing monthly updates and insights to C-suite on vision, strategy, and progress
- Champion internal workflow excellence by identifying and solving pain points for sales and CS teams with transformative tooling
- Pilot and scale AI-powered solutions including design, test, and roll out successful pilots with go-to-market teams
Requirements:
- A Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent work experience is required
- Visionary leadership and ability to set ambitious strategies and inspire teams around a bold, disruptive vision
- Executive savvy specifically skilled at influencing and aligning with senior leaders to solve complex, high-impact problems
- Deep AI fluency, understanding of the latest in AI, voice, and chat automation for both internal tools and customer interactions
- Build-or-buy judgment to know when to develop in-house versus leverage external solutions to move at speed and scale
- Exceptional communication and ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear, actionable insights especially comfortable presenting to SVP and C-level
- Strong technical partnership to work closely with engineering leads to define platform roadmap, ensure stability, and scale solutions
- Track record of delivering high-impact outcomes and experience running fast, multi-team initiatives in complex organizations