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Yahoo Video and Esports -- Business Operations Analyst
Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Description
A Little About Us
Yahoo’s Video and Esports team builds, distributes and monetizes industry leading consumer video centric experiences and applications. Given the rapid growth in demand for video offerings and services, Yahoo recently centralized product, engineering, design and business operations for the video business into a single focused team. This team has driven recent industry leading events such as the first ever NFL Live Stream on October 25th, 2015, the launch of Yahoo Esports on March 1st, 2016 and the continued investment of videofication of Yahoo’s leading verticals - Sports, News, Finance and Homepage. Yahoo’s Video team is a source of investment for the company as a key driver of future user engagement and revenue.
A lot about you
As part of the Video Business Operations team, you will be focused on defining and driving operational priorities across Video and Esports, contributing to or leading cross-organization execution initiatives, and supporting strategic asks directly from our SVP, Adam Cahan, VP Zachary John and CEO, Marissa Mayer. This leadership team has created a fast paced, high impact organization.
Your Day
As a member of the Business Operations team, your areas of focus will include:
• Partnering with product leads to define, build, deliver and scale unique strategies, go-to-market plans, and managing rapid execution performance
• Daily responsibility for driving innovative mobile advertising and monetization strategies, working directly with our mobile ads teams to launch and optimize performance driven ad solutions
• Provide thought leadership, execution acceleration, and business visibility updates across the most critical SVP level initiatives – high profile, high impact, cross organizational sprint projects
You Must Be:
• Excited by a high growth and fast paced team environment removed of politics and bureaucracy, our sole focus is to deliver impact and shape the future of Yahoo
• Self-starter motivated by the opportunity to lead cross-functional efforts and drive execution aggressively
• Uniquely strong analytical, presentation, and leadership qualities for daily SVP interactions
• Comfortable working across multiple projects and teams in parallel, sees ambiguity as opportunity to assert the right answers and action plans
• Roles are based in Sunnyvale, CA at Yahoo! HQ – minimal travel required, free corporate shuttles from and to downtown San Francisco
Other Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree required.
• 2-3 years experience in similar role.
• Strong analytic skills, knowledge in statistical tools
• Advanced Excel/Sheets and Keynote/PowerPoint/Slides capabilities
• Knowledge of how to extract, clean and manipulate data from multiple systems into reporting objects for analysis
• Ability to translate business requirements to define meaningful metrics.
• Compile, report daily, weekly, monthly metrics.
• Compile and present insights to Business Review, Operating reviews and key stakeholders.
• Ability to engage more senior product leaders to translate insights to new user experiences.