Yahoo! Search Marketing, a division of Yahoo! Inc., offers essential marketing services for companies doing business online. The group’s search-based products and tools help businesses connect with highly motivated customers.
Title: Sr. Director, Product Management-Content Match
Location: Pasadena, CA
The Senior Product Director will assume responsibility for the leadership and product development for all forms of advertising on non-search pages: Market identification and analysis, competitive research, vendor selection, platform/product definition, testing, development planning and product launches across global markets
Primary responsibilities consist of:
– Manage, grow and motivate team of junior and senior level product and project managers
– Product business ownership: Gathering & assessment of online advertising market data synthesized into clear marketing requirements to enhance existing Content Match business. Includes business and product strategy, modeling, forecasting, budgeting, success metrics, and P&L analysis.
– Lead product definition and cross functional team product development to extend advertising across content pages in the U.S. and key international markets.
– Obtain executive-level and peer consensus on product requirements
– Work well with cross-functional team members, especially in sales, business development, engineering and across Yahoo! properties and functions.
– Oversee product testing and development of new products and product enhancements
– Close coordination with YSM teams in international markets to identify and define local product features/characteristics and evaluate potential vendor relationships
– Document, prioritize, and communicate feature, functionality, and enhancement requests related to the development of Content Match products
– Research and tracking of system problems, questions, and keeping stakeholders informed of progress
Skills/Qualifications:
– 10+ years of product management experience.
– Specific and in-depth knowledge of the online advertising industry
– Application development for advertising related products.
– Experience working with international markets (Europe or Asia)
– Ability to be creative, problem solve and build strategic/visionary product roadmaps for future product needs
– Experience developing and managing product plans across the entire product lifecycle from initial deployments through 2.0 through end of life.
– Internet experience required.
– Understanding of search advertising, contextual advertising, banner/rich media advertising, Yahoo! Search Marketing products and emerging platforms such as mobile commerce/advertising.
– Solid presentation and communication skills
– Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple constituents and a large number of small tasks
– Proactive, entrepreneurial and detail-oriented individual
– Strong prioritization capabilities such as analyzing levels of urgency, dependencies, etc.
– Candidate must be willing to travel between Pasadena and Sunnyvale, and occasionally internationally.
Contact Info: Please email your resume to amyp@yahoo-inc.com . In the heading put “Sr Dir PM”
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