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Product Manager - Global Payments Platform
Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Description
A little about us:
Yahoo makes the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world.
The Search and Ads Data and Tools team support data, tools and business systems across Yahoo’s Advertiser business and Search. As a member of this revenue critical team, team you will be the product owner for Yahoo’s Global Payment Platform. You will collaborate with internal and external business partners, product managers, and engineers to build solutions that enable inbound and outbound payments for Yahoo’s advertising and consumer products. You will also build products that support the operations of our business including Fraud and Risk management functions.
A lot about you:
You have a strong background in building products. You partner well with business stakeholders and other product managers. You are process oriented and can understand complex workflows and operations. You have a “can do” attitude and are strong at execution. You are not afraid to drive end-to-end solutions across multiple teams. You are a fast learner and have the capacity to juggle multiple projects.
Your Day:
• Work with key stakeholders to define, design, implement, and optimize payment strategies and solutions for Yahoo products and properties such as Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Sports, Tumblr and others
• Develop product roadmap and prioritized product backlog; manage changing requirements under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Pull and analyze data to drive decisions based on data, not assumptions
• Analyze business processes, identify areas for improvement, and design solutions to challenging payment use cases
• Manage a complex global network of partners; identify and help negotiate contracts with potential new providers
• Exercise initiative and ownership while functioning as a product owner on a scrum team
• Champion the needs of both internal and external users while balancing resources and net value to Yahoo; combine strong user advocacy with impeccable business judgment
• Set KPIs and goals that align to and advance Yahoo’s goals and objectives
• Plan and meet various project milestones; communicate issues and solutions effectively; consistently provide deliverables on schedule and on budget (both resources and costs)
• Understand larger payment ecosystem including technology, strategy, and industry trends; continually realign Yahoo Payments strategy and tactics to reflect quickly evolving payments industry
• Manage several P0 revenue-critical projects in parallel
You must have:
• 5+ years of product management experience with sustained history of delivering products that meet or exceed goals, on budget and on schedule
• Hands-on experience in the Payments domain is highly desirable, including knowledge of transaction processing, major industry structures and alignment, fraud and risk management, alternate payment methods, tokenization
• Exceptional ability to be both highly strategic and tactical
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills; able to quickly craft impactful and persuasive, data-driven presentations
• Adept at communicating with a wide range of technical, non-technical, and executive functions including both internal and external stakeholders
• Analytical mindset with a strong bias toward using data to drive business decisions
• Power user of Powerpoint and Excel; SQL skills are nice to have
• Skilled multi-tasker, comfortable driving several high-priority projects to completion in parallel
• Proven ability to set priorities and triage tasks competing for resources
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to gain trust and authority at all levels of the organization
• Very motivated to improve both cost and resource efficiency of business processes; history of using “test and learn” iterative improvements to drive ongoing performance gains
• Must be a team player adept at working in cross-functional groups; willing to personally step in and resolve customer problems if needed
• Experience working on an Agile or Scrum team
• Bachelors in computer science, engineering or related technical field, or equivalent product management experience, is required; top-tier MBA is a strong plus