Sr. Product Manager, Partnerships (Yahoo Mail) at Yahoo Holdings Inc. in New York, New York

Job Description:

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It's the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

About

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people worldwide, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports to shopping, gaming, and news-with trusted products, content, and tech that fuel their daily lives. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform to help businesses grow, driving meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It's the best way to access your email and stay organized across devices. With a beautiful design and lightning-fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to focus on partnerships within the Yahoo Mail organization. This role involves deeply understanding Yahoo Mail's feature set and capabilities, and working closely with product managers across the organization. You will be the key point of contact for external partners, ensuring their integration with Yahoo Mail delivers value to their customers. You'll also be overseeing the program enabling other industry partners or developers who seek to integrate their solutions into Yahoo Mail, ensuring a secure experience for our customers.

Keep a strong bias for stepping up and taking action, yet demonstrate a willingness to learn and take guidance.

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  What You'll Do:
  
  
  
  • Build strong relationships with large-scale partners who offer Yahoo Mail to their customers, ensuring seamless integration and a successful product experience.
  
  
  • Work closely with internal product managers to align on the roadmap, feature sets, and technical capabilities that affect partner integrations.
  
  
  • Be the voice of partners within Yahoo Mail, advocating for their needs and ensuring their requirements are met.
  
  
  • Collaborate with engineering, design, and other cross-functional teams to deliver on partnership requirements, from initial integration to ongoing performance optimization.
  
  
  • Define and track success metrics for each partnership, using data to drive decisions and improve the experience for both partners and users.
  
  
  • Stay ahead of industry trends and potential partnership opportunities, bringing in new ideas and partners that align with Yahoo Mail's strategic goals.
  
  
  
  

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  What we look for:
  
  
  
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    Experience: 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in managing partnerships, platforms, or large-scale products. Prior experience with email applications and infrastructure is highly desired.
  
  
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    Partnership Management: Strong ability to build and manage relationships with external partners, understanding their needs and aligning them with product capabilities.
  
  
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    Technical Acumen: A solid understanding of the technology required to integrate third-party services with core systems, ideally with experience in cloud-based or email-related solutions.
  
  
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    Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving successful partnership initiatives from concept to delivery.
  
  
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    Product Sense: The ability to understand and translate partner needs into product features and roadmaps, with a strong focus on delivering value to end users.
  
  
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    Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex technical ideas to both internal and external stakeholders.
  
  
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    Analytical Ability: Strong analytical skills to assess partnership performance and make data-driven decisions.
  
  
  
  

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  Your day-to-day:
  
  
  
  • Manage and drive the overall partnership strategy and roadmap for Yahoo Mail.
  
  
  • Act as the primary point of contact for external partners, ensuring successful onboarding and ongoing collaboration.
  
  
  • Collaborate with product managers to align on features and capabilities that impact partner integrations.
  
  
  • Identify new partnership opportunities and lead the evaluation and integration process.
  
  
  • Define success metrics and use data insights to continuously optimize partnership performance.
  
  
  • Work with partners to define requirements for reporting purposes and work with the internal analytics team to build out automated reporting views for those partners.
  
  
  • Quickly become a subject matter expert on Yahoo Mail's product capabilities and the needs of key partners.
  
  
  
  

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies ; exercising sound judgment ; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others ; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations ; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call +1.866.772.3182 . Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion ( www.yahooinc.com/diversity/ ) page to learn more.

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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