Sr. Product Manager - Partnerships (Yahoo Mail)

Yahoo is a leading consumer email platform with hundreds of millions of users, and they are seeking a Senior Product Manager for Partnerships to lead product strategy and execution for Yahoo Mail's external partnerships. This role involves managing partner relationships, ensuring secure and reliable integrations, and advocating for partner needs within the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product vision and roadmap for Yahoo Mail's partner integrations and partner-facing capabilities, across web, iOS, Android, and emerging surfaces
• Build and maintain strong relationships across our partner ecosystem, including partners who operate Yahoo Mail experiences for their customers, partners consuming our APIs and MCP endpoints, and platform customers building on our infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration and a high-quality experience for both partners and end users
• Define and shape the strategic roadmap for the partner integration program, including the patterns, APIs, MCP surfaces, developer tooling, and shared capabilities that determine how partners and their AI agents onboard, integrate, and operate over time across a range of integration models
• Be the voice of partners within Yahoo Mail, advocating for their needs and ensuring requirements are reflected appropriately in product decisions and roadmaps, while also being a strong voice for protecting the platform from abuse and misuse
• Partner closely with experience product managers and client and platform engineering teams to align on features, capabilities, and technical direction that affect partner integrations
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning product, engineering, design, business development, legal, and trust and safety, ensuring cohesive end-to-end execution
• Work closely with trust and safety, security, and engineering to design partner-facing surfaces that are resilient to abuse, including credential misuse, automated abuse, prompt injection, and emerging agent-driven attack patterns
• Identify new partnership opportunities aligned with Yahoo Mail's strategic goals, and lead evaluation, scoping, and integration for selected opportunities
• Define and track success metrics for the partnership program and individual partner relationships, including measures of integration health and abuse posture, using data to drive prioritization and inform investment decisions
• Work with partners and the internal analytics team to define reporting requirements and build out automated reporting views that scale across the partner base
• Represent Yahoo Mail in partner-facing and executive-level discussions related to partnership strategy, integration approach, commercial considerations, and tradeoffs

Requirements:

• 5+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of partnerships, platforms, or large-scale consumer products
• Direct experience with email, messaging, or other communication platforms is a strong plus
• Demonstrated ability to translate partner and business requirements into technical requirements
• Ability to reason about how platform architecture shapes what is feasible for partners and vice versa
• Genuine instinct for how partner-facing surfaces can be abused
• Proven ability to build and manage relationships with external partners at scale
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives that span product, engineering, business development, and legal
• Strong instincts for prioritization, sequencing, and tradeoffs
• Comfort operating in environments where product, business, and contractual considerations intersect
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical skills to assess partnership performance, identify opportunities, and make data-driven decisions
• A genuine interest in building products that empower people in their day-to-day lives