AI Operations Strategist

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking an AI Operations Strategist to accelerate field adoption of AI by rapidly assembling, hardening, and deploying lightweight generative AI and low-code/no-code workflows that solve real business needs.

This tactical builder role requires an agile operator who is logical, resourceful, and focused on practical, governance-friendly solutions. You will partner with senior technical teams to turn ideas into deployed tools that scale with field demand.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in operations, automation, or analytics delivering impactful business solutions.
• Hands-on experience with low-code/no-code platforms, workflow automation tools, and generative AI platforms (e.g., Gemini, Claude, Copilot).
• Proven track record building, testing, validating, and deploying practical tools or automated workflows.
• Strong logical reasoning and structural instincts to break ambiguous problems into reusable solutions.
• Effective communication to document technical work for non-technical stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
• Demonstrated agility managing parallel workstreams while maintaining accuracy and quality.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly build, harden, and deploy AI and low-code/no-code workflows addressing field demand.
• Identify opportunities to replace manual tasks with AI-augmented workflows and automated integrations.
• Evaluate AI outputs for accuracy, safety, and quality before deployment.
• Design, structure, and document solutions that are sustainable and reusable.
• Iterate on tools with fast feedback loops, ensuring field-facing solutions are practical and reliable.
• Manage incoming requests from the Business Builder community and escalate architectural needs to engineering.
• Enforce governance by ensuring adherence to team standards, protocols, and security guidelines.

Skills

Operations experience

Automation

Analytics

Low-code/no-code platforms

Workflow automation

Generative AI

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

A little about us

The Sales Intelligence & AI team within Yahoo Ads drives field efficiency by building and deploying actionable, AI-powered automation across our business operations. We act as a high-velocity innovation hub, empowering team members to transform tactical ideas into robust, scalable operational solutions.

About the Role

Yahoo Ads is seeking an AI Operations Strategist to help accelerate how the field builds with AI by rapidly assembling, hardening, orchestrating, and deploying lightweight generative AI and low-code/no-code workflows that solve real business needs.

This is a tactical builder role for an agile operator who is exceptionally logical, resourceful, and thoughtful about how they structure solutions. You will move quickly while building in a way that holds up in practice. Working closely with senior technical partners, you will turn lightweight ideas and prototypes into governed, usable tools that can be deployed to the field with confidence.

As part of the Sales Intelligence & AI team, you will support a demand-driven model that responds to real field needs, improves workflows, and helps scale repeatable solutions. You will play an important role in reviewing incoming community builds, strengthening promising ideas, documenting your work, and recognizing when a request should be escalated for deeper engineering support.

Key Responsibilities

• Rapidly build, harden, and deploy reliable generative AI and low-code/no-code workflows that address real field demand and business needs.
• Identify opportunities to replace manual or repetitive field tasks with AI-augmented workflows, automated integrations, and structured prompt engineering.
• Evaluate, test, and validate AI-generated outputs to ensure accuracy, safety, and adherence to quality requirements prior to deployment.
• Design, structure, and document solutions with logical choices that ensure they are sustainable, reusable, and easily understood by partners.
• Iterate on tools through fast feedback loops, ensuring all field-facing solutions are practical, reliable, and aligned with team standards.
• Manage incoming requests from the Business Builder community, providing first-line reviews and escalating complex architectural needs to engineering.
• Enforce governance by ensuring all field-facing solutions adhere to team standards, operational protocols, and security guidelines.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in an operations, automation, or analytics role delivering impactful business solutions.
• Hands-on experience with low-code/no-code platforms, workflow automation tools, and generative AI platforms (e.g., Gemini, Claude, Copilot).
• Proven track record of building, testing, validating, and deploying practical tools or automated workflows that solve operational challenges.
• Strong logical reasoning and structural instincts, with a proven ability to break ambiguous problems into clean, reusable solutions.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to document technical work clearly for non-technical stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
• Demonstrated agility and resourcefulness in managing parallel workstreams while maintaining high standards for accuracy and quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with prompt design, evaluation of AI outputs, or structured interactions with AI agents.
• Light scripting ability in Python, SQL, or a similar data manipulation language.
• Exposure to sales operations, revenue enablement, or business-facing operational environments.
• Experience supporting internal end-users with workflow, tooling, or process optimization.

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!

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $72,750.00 - $151,250.00/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.