Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.
This role will define and own a product strategy for a newly formed product platform team that will build foundational experiences across Yahoo Finance that deepen our understanding of our user needs and preferences to unlock greater business impact. You’ll join a Yahoo Finance team that, alongside new leadership, is revitalizing this financial OG and positioning it for the future.
The Role:
- Develop a vision and product strategy for our newly formed Core Product Platform team. Areas of focus may include user and financial profiles, recommendation algorithms, subscription access, and lifecycle platform management.
- Prioritize and manage a roadmap against high-impact initiatives, including new products, to deliver a best-in-class user experience.
- Support product delivery from ideation through launch: identify the requirements, solve user problems, and ensure on-time delivery with high quality.
- Collaborate closely across different stakeholders to identify opportunities as well as influence the roadmaps of other teams to accelerate your goals.
- Define and measure the impact of your work through outcomes and metrics.
- Represent your Product through communication with leadership and stakeholders about impact, progress, and blockers.
About You:
- Location Preference: Mountain View or surrounding areas - hybrid work environment
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager with a strong track record of creating engaging product platform experiences that scale and address user needs. You understand how to translate ideas into requirements across stakeholders.
- You are comfortable tackling complex projects, including technical ones. You have a keen ability to break down large problems into well-defined, manageable problems, and an ability to use data to inform your judgment.
- You are a data-driven and analytical Product Manager that thrives in defining hypothesis-driven experimentation. You complement these skills with an expertise in building user-focused experiences.
- You enjoy collaborating and communicating across different audiences. You understand how to distill the right level of information to the audience, supporting your recommendations with data and user insights.
- You are driven to succeed with a high comfort level with ambiguity and fluidity, optimizing for speed and the ability to make decisions in a rapidly changing environment while achieving quality results.
- You are comfortable managing a range of projects, managing time and scope appropriately.
- The right candidate will possess a mixture of quantitative chops and creative intuition– someone who loves digging into the data to drive insights combined with excellent product sense to deliver scalable, consistent value to our users.
- Your Agile software development experience makes you a credible leader and informs your judgment regarding timelines, scope, quality, priorities, and tradeoffs.
- You inspire and focus your colleagues using great listening skills, your influence, and crisp, effective communication.
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The compensation for this position ranges from $120,750.00 - $251,250.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.
Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.
If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.
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