Principal Product Manager, Platforms - JR0025249_TN

$150,380 - $327,025/Yr

Yahoo Holdings - Nashville, TN

Full-time - Senior

Onsite - Nashville, TN

About the position

The Principal Product Manager at Yahoo will lead the vision and execution of innovative platform solutions that enhance developer productivity and improve engineering systems. This role involves collaborating with various teams to understand customer needs, drive product metrics, and contribute to the strategic direction of the platform.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative platform solutions that reduce cognitive load, save costs, and improve the performance and reliability of engineering systems across the company
• Work backwards from internal customers across the company to understand product and feature needs
• Utilize various feedback gathering techniques, including surveys, interviews, product analytics, etc. to gain insight into customer needs
• Disambiguate customer problems and translate them into clearly defined minimum viable products
• Drive and improve key product metrics and business goals
• Collaborate with engineering, finance, procurement, and other functions to balance tradeoffs between costs, technical feasibility, timelines, and other constraints
• Partner with engineering to prioritize product capabilities and engineering needs
• Execute on go-to-market internally to drive adoption, usage, and closing the feedback loop
• Contribute to setting the strategic vision for the platform

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science/Engineering/Statistics (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of experience in product management working on cloud or developer tools
• 10+ years of industry experience in software services
• 2+ years of experience as a software developer
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of modern cloud services and architectural patterns

Nice-to-haves

• Masters in Business Administration

Benefits

• Healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation
• Sick time
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program