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Director, Product Management, Partner Search at Yahoo | LAYIQ

Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and performance of Yahoo’s Partner Search portfolio, with accountability for partner traffic, revenue, retention, lifetime value, monetization, and platform scalability.
Lead and develop a small team of Product Managers while personally owning a meaningful product area and remaining deeply engaged in product discovery, prioritization, execution, and performance.
Develop a deep understanding of distribution partners, their users, business models, traffic sources, and economics, using partner feedback, product data, market context, and performance trends to identify the highest-value opportunities.
Define product strategy for third-party Search experiences, balancing partner needs, end-user value, platform scalability, traffic quality, and Yahoo business objectives.
Improve partner configurability and flexibility across Search experiences, features, branding, data, APIs, and integrations, while avoiding excessive operational or technical complexity.
Drive initiatives that improve user retention, engagement, search volume, and lifetime value across distributed traffic, identifying and testing the product levers that strengthen repeat usage and partner economics.
Optimize monetization across partner experiences through new features, Search experience improvements, traffic and query optimization, and other product levers that improve revenue while maintaining partner and user value.
Identify, prototype, and launch new B2B Search products and distribution opportunities, including new partner capabilities, commercial experiences, APIs, and product models that expand Yahoo’s addressable market.
Build scalable platform capabilities rather than one-off partner solutions, including partner data and reporting, Search and XML APIs, syndication capabilities, configuration frameworks, and reusable platform services.
Own and improve critical partner ecosystem capabilities related to traffic quality, integrity, and compliance, including areas such as chain of custody, invalid traffic, domain matching, parked domain traffic, and partner traffic governance.
Use experimentation and performance measurement to guide decisions, define success metrics, evaluate tradeoffs, and continuously identify new monetization and growth “jolts” across the partner portfolio.
Partner closely with Business Development, Partner Management, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Data Science, Monetization, Legal, Privacy, and other teams to launch new capabilities and improve existing partner integrations.
Serve as a senior Product counterpart to strategic partners, helping shape joint product roadmaps, identify new opportunities, diagnose issues, and translate partner-specific needs into scalable product investments.
Monitor the health and evolution of the partner portfolio across adoption, traffic quality, retention, monetization, partner satisfaction, competitive dynamics, and platform cost to determine where to invest, simplify, or change direction.

Experience with Search distribution, sponsored Search, Search syndication, browser or OEM distribution, or other large-scale third-party Search ecosystems.
Experience building or managing Search APIs, XML APIs, syndication products, developer platforms, or APIs designed for third-party product integration.
Familiarity with Search monetization, RPM optimization, advertiser economics, traffic quality, invalid traffic, domain matching, parked domains, or related Search marketplace concepts.
Experience building configurable B2B or B2B2C platforms that support multiple partner types, business models, and integration patterns.
Experience developing new partner-facing products or commercial models that created incremental distribution, revenue, or strategic value.
A track record of generating fresh product ideas, testing new growth and monetization opportunities, and turning successful concepts into scalable products.
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 $150,380.00 - $327,025.00/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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