Yahoo - Baltimore, MD
posted 4 months ago
Yahoo Sports is one of the internet's leading destinations for comprehensive sports news and innovative fantasy games. We produce insightful content across multiple platforms and curate quality coverage from around the web to inform and entertain fans. We're an original fantasy sports pioneer, with a legacy of innovation that helps us continue to be a fantasy leader. As one of the most-visited sports platforms on the internet, we're one of the best places for brands to reach fans. In this role, you will be working with our Core Sports, Content, and Gen AI teams to completely reimagine how sports fans get the content they need and interactions they crave. This position is for a Principal Technical Program Manager who is looking for an opportunity to be a true owner and drive impact. You will have a close partnership and collaborate with our Product, Engineering, and Design leads. Your responsibilities will include taking ambiguous requirements and ideas, clarifying and refining them into actionable project plans, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver next-generation products. You will act as the primary point of contact between technical teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, managing expectations, and navigating competing priorities. Your role will also involve extreme risk and dependency management, developing mitigation strategies, driving continuous improvement, and fostering a culture of excellence and innovation within the team. We are looking for you to contribute new, creative solutions and elevate our TPM team and Sports organization. You will oversee the development and execution of initiatives to enhance current offerings, expand into new markets, and launch new product lines. You will execute strategic planning and own the creation, management, and reporting of the roadmap, as well as own program Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to track progress and drive continuous improvement. You will drive a variety of programs and projects simultaneously, identifying priorities, defining projects and associated milestones to deliver towards our OKRs. You will work closely with various cross-functional departments, including Product, Engineering, Sales, and Operations, to ensure strategic alignment and efficient execution of initiatives. Additionally, you will dive deep into technical systems and understand how they interact, maintain and monitor a list of key project and program-level dependencies, risks, and issues, and baseline and accelerate the productivity of our teams - product, design, engineering, data science, and more. Building trusted relationships with the Program Leads and Senior Leadership Team will be crucial, as you will surface major wins, risks, and challenges. You will manage program communication plans and operating models, ensuring alignment of strategy and execution, and support engineering momentum through dashboards and reporting tools, providing insights into delivery and business performance. Your ability to share actionable signals through key metrics and data will be essential, as will your skills in facilitating healthy, productive dialogue, building consensus, and owning communication up, down, and across.