Senior Product Manager - Calendar (Yahoo Mail) at Yahoo Holdings Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland

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.

This role reports directly to the VP of Product for Yahoo Mail and is critical to building and scaling an exceptional calendar experience that seamlessly integrates into Yahoo Mail. The successful candidate will focus on delivering a unified, intuitive, and high-performing calendar experience that empowers users to manage their schedules efficiently. This role requires a deep understanding of consumer utilities, building capabilities that drive user engagement and retention, and how to deliver best-in-class experiences across desktop and mobile devices.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Product Ownership: Drive the entire product lifecycle for Yahoo Mail's calendar, from ideation and strategy to development and iteration, ensuring alignment with the broader Yahoo Mail product vision.


• User Engagement and Retention: Develop and execute strategies to maximize user adoption, engagement, and retention by delivering features that simplify scheduling and add tangible value to users' lives.


• Cross-Platform Excellence: Ensure a seamless and consistent calendar experience across desktop and mobile platforms, emphasizing performance, accessibility, and user-centric design principles.


• Feature Innovation and Roadmap: Create and maintain a forward-looking roadmap informed by user feedback, competitive analysis, and emerging trends in productivity tools, ensuring Yahoo Mail's calendar remains a leader in the market.


• Data-Driven Optimization: Use advanced analytics, user insights, and A/B testing to evaluate the effectiveness of calendar features, optimizing performance and prioritizing improvements based on measurable impact.


• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, design, marketing, and analytics teams to ensure cohesive execution and alignment on product goals, fostering a culture of shared ownership and innovation.


• Personalized Experiences: Incorporate machine learning and intelligent recommendations to provide users with personalized scheduling features, helping them stay organized effortlessly.

• Experience: 6+ years of product management experience with a focus on consumer-facing utility apps or productivity tools.


• Calendar Experience: Expertise in developing and scaling calendar or productivity solutions, with a track record of driving user engagement.


• Cross-Platform Expertise: Proven success in delivering cross-platform (web and mobile app) products with exceptional usability and performance.


• Data Proficiency: Strong analytical skills, with experience leveraging data and user research to guide decision-making and optimize product outcomes.


• Strong Leadership Capabilities: Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment across cross-functional teams and present compelling business cases to executives while advocating for user needs.


• AI Utility Experience: Familiarity with integrating AI or machine learning-driven features into consumer utilities is a plus. User-Centric Approach: A strategic, user-first mindset with the ability to balance short-term delivery needs with long-term innovation and growth objectives.

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.

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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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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