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Sr. Product Manager - Display & Video Ad Products
Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Description
A Little About Us
We are Yahoo’s DSP platform, powering the programmatic advertising strategy of leading advertisers and premium brands. We take pride in delivering world-class product solutions for advertisers to smoothly tackle the complex world of digital advertising across display, video, and native formats on all devices. We are key contributor to Yahoo’s revenue and our product managers get to own and drive incremental contributions to the top line at Yahoo. We work on a large-scale distributed SaaS system, handling 100+ billion bid requests per day and serving billions of engaging ads to our users around the world.
A Lot About You
Are you passionate about building great products? At Yahoo, PMs are responsible for creating a team culture that conceives, designs, and ships great products.
As a PM you understand, inspire, and focus your team(s) using great listening skills, influence abilities, and crisp, effective communication. You complement these skills with technical knowledge that makes you a credible leader and informs your judgment regarding timelines, scope, quality, priorities, and tradeoffs.. In the end, you are the expert on how products are designed, used, measured, improved, and generate revenue. You support this expertise with a keen ability break down large, complex problems into well-defined, manageable problems, and an ability to use data to inform your judgment.
This position is a unique opportunity for an ad technology professional to join a team trying to solve some of the most challenging problems in digital advertising. You are looking to accelerate the success of an established leading product and to solve problems across desktop, video, native, and social. This role provides an incredible opportunity to contribute to a product that supports a huge portion of revenue for the company.
Your Day
• As a product manager, you will work closely with key stakeholders across the company (sales, account management, marketing, etc.) to develop a product roadmap.
• Research, refine, and document product requirements by collecting feedback from customers, partners, and business teams.
• Working with Engineering to estimate, prioritize and understand the underlying technologies & trade-offs needed to put high quality solutions / features in place.
• Leading an Agile Engineering scrum team(s) to deliver value for customers quickly while iterating towards your long-term vision.
• Collaborate closely with sales/product marketing for new product launches and devise plan for product adoption and measure product success.
You Must Have
• Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Fun and dynamic with the ability to quickly learn new topics/domains and the dedication to “go the extra mile”.
• Self-motivated individual with strong communication(written and verbal), leadership, judgment, planning, and decision-making skills.
• Prior product management experience (at least 2-4 years in PM, 5+ total) in a technology company, preferably in Software as a Service.
• Experience delivering products using Agile / Scrum software development & Engineering practices.
• Technical skill set to easily communicate product requirements and to work in close collaboration with our engineers.
• Experience working with teams (Marketing, Sales, user docs, Service, Support, etc.) and GTM processes.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus:
• Digital advertising landscape (ad servers, DSPs, DMPs) and other media buying platforms.
• Web & Internet technologies, API’s and SQL