Product Manager - Ads Data / Ads Trust

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us

The Ads Data team at Yahoo powers many features and components for Yahoo DSP, including targeting, identity, measurement, insights, ads trust, and more. We contribute to Yahoo DSP's success and help deliver hundreds of billions of ads across the world every year.

As part of the Ads Trust team, we are responsible for protecting Yahoo DSP from both demand and supply related threats and protecting our advertisers from traffic fraud, malware and ad quality issues.

We are looking for a Product Manager to manage the roadmap and execution of Ads Trust engineering teams and cross functional feature development with external and internal partner teams as well as working collaboratively with Operations, Policy, Legal and Business stakeholders.

Role is open to applicants in Ireland.

A Little About You

• Deal with Ambiguity: You are a problem solver and a problem finder before that. You love working on challenging, ambiguous, and unstructured problems. As the industry keeps evolving at an unprecedented pace, our needs around threat detection and legal/policy issues keep evolving just as quickly.
• Tech-savvy: You have an inquisitive mind and constantly update yourself with the latest in the relevant tech and competitors’ capabilities and strategies. You can act as the interface between engineers and the business and translate business & product needs into technical requirements.
• Get into the weeds: You are extremely data-driven, and you have database query skills so that you can analyze data on your own and not be dependent on others to perform analysis.
• Work with cross-functional teams: As a member of the Ads Trust team, you are able to coordinate and work with multiple cross-functional teams across different countries to build consensus and alignment around their own product areas.
• Excellent communicator: You have the ability to translate complex business challenges into simple and clear language for our engineering team.
  
  

Your Responsibilities

• Communicating with internal and external stakeholders & customers about product ideas and feature requirements.
• Working with peer product managers to define cross-functional feature requirements and implementation roadmap.
• Defining product requirements/user stories and launching new product capabilities using Agile methodology.
• Working closely with engineering to understand the underlying technologies & trade-offs needed to put high-quality solutions in place.
• Leading an agile engineering team(s) to deliver value for customers quickly while iterating towards your long-term vision.
• Bringing to market product-based solutions & features across multiple delivery teams (Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, Documentation, etc.)
• Align with analytics and metrics – KPIs that drive business growth and engagement.
• Interfacing with external solution providers and influencing their roadmaps to meet business objectives.
• Lead annual industry certification efforts for fraud and malware.
  
  

Requirements

• Proven track record of results, demonstrated accountability for achieving individual and shared goals.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think independently.
• Keen eye on backend feature development, data processing, data management, and data discovery solutions.
• Exceptional listening and communication skills (written, verbal)
• 2+ years experience in a tech company in a related position (PM, Engineering, Project Mgmt, Technical Support, Technical Sales, Technical / Professional Services or Consulting, etc.)
• An ability to multitask, organize & lead complex features, detail orientation, and be able to summarize.
• Experience delivering products using Agile / Kanban / Scrum software development & Engineering practices.
• A broad understanding of web & internet technologies, application development tech, and IT infrastructure; direct adtech experience is a plus.
• A good understanding invalid traffic detection and creative verification is a plus.
  
  

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 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.

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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