Principal Technical Program Manager, Yahoo Mail

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.

Yahoo is a values-led company committed to building brands people love. We reach over one billion people around the world with a dynamic house of media and technology brands. 

As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will lead the scaling of AI capabilities within Yahoo Mail, driving innovation to enhance user experiences and business performance. You will oversee multiple squads focused on AI integration while managing additional strategic programs with a diverse range of stakeholders. This role requires a strategic, cross-functional approach, ensuring seamless collaboration between design, engineering, and product teams to develop and deploy cutting-edge AI-driven features. 

At Yahoo, we seek Program Managers that are expert multitaskers and master planners who can balance complex initiatives across multiple teams and locations—delivering impact at scale.

In this role you will:

• Experience in program management of Artificial Technologies, bringing AI products to market in an agile environment.

• Experience in program management or Data Analytics across Monetization and revenue efforts  or subscription/payment based models.

• Lead the program management of several complex, matrix, programs that are on time, on budget and with value.  

• Serve as the “air traffic controller” guiding large cross-functional programs and objectives to deliver against aggressive timelines, partnering with product, engineering and design leads to ensure successful delivery against our objectives.

• Develop and manage a well-defined program management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management, across multiple agile teams

• Prepare and manage project plans, documentation, risk mitigation, and resource management for cross-team initiatives and large projects/programs.

• Act as the liaison between cross-functional teams to drive end-to-end development of products to market.

• Act as key connectors to other parts of the organization, increasing transparency and alignment, and identifying cross-unit issues and opportunities to improve business outcomes.

• Ensure best-in-class practice of agile methodology and execution across the product development lifecycle. 

• Be a technical thought-leader, constantly improving how we work.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of industry experience implementing and delivering initiatives as a technical program manager, project manager, or similar in an agile or scaled agile environment.

• Prior success in complex, large-scale, multi-team environments in support of business goals.

• Deep knowledge of Agile/SCRUM and/or Scaled Agile methodologies. SCRUM Master certificate.   Scaled Agile (SAFe) RTE certification is a plus.

• High proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Project Plans, Gantt, Roadmapping, and Google suite. 

• Ability to communicate effectively to executive stakeholders and leadership.

• Proficiency and a strong understanding of SDLC across product, engineering, design in rapid and agile environments.

• Consumer technology environments with subscription, monetization optimization experience are a plus.

• Demonstrated track record of cultivating strong working relationships and driving collaboration across multiple product and platform teams.

• A proactive, efficient, and resourceful approach and ability to thrive in a creative and deadline-driven environment

• Creative thinking - Looking outside of “the box” to problem-solving. 

• Remote position - willingness to travel up to once a quarter between Northern California and New York offices.

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.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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The compensation for this position ranges from $136,125.00 - $283,750.00/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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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