Company Overview
About the job
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.
A Little About Us
At Yahoo, we operate thousands of services at a global scale, reaching hundreds of millions of people around the world. Our internal developer platform powers these services and lets our developers build rapidly, securely, and with high quality.
A Lot About You
We are looking for a motivated Principal Product Manager who can set the vision and deliver a delightful developer experience for one of our platform pillars, which include Developer Productivity, CI/CD, Cloud, and Data. In this role, you will partner with engineering leaders across all of Yahoo to find ways to accelerate 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
- 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
- Disambiguate customer problems and translate them into clearly defined minimum viable products
- Drive and improve key product metrics and business goals
- 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 closing the feedback loop
- Contribute to setting the strategic vision for the platform
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science/Engineering/Statistics (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of experience in product management working on cloud or developer tools
- 10+ years of industry experience in software services
- 2+ years of experience as a software developer
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of modern cloud services and architectural patterns
Preferred
- Masters in Business Administration
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