Director of AI-Powered Search Monetization

Yahoo Holdings Inc.

New York (NY)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 327,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. in New York is seeking a Director of Product Management to own strategy and execution for monetization across Yahoo Search.

This senior individual contributor role focuses on sponsored search and ad products, improving RPM while protecting user experience. You will collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Design, Research, Business Development, and Finance to define requirements, test new formats, and scale innovative monetization concepts including AI-powered

Qualifications

9+ years of Product Management or equivalent experience, including significant experience building and optimizing advertising or monetization products at scale.
5+ years of direct experience with search advertising, sponsored search, or closely related performance advertising products with a strong understanding of search intent, ad relevance, advertiser value, and user experience.
Demonstrated success improving scaled advertising or monetization products through optimization, experimentation, and data-driven decision making.
Experience working with programmatic advertising marketplaces, external ad platforms, advertising partners, or similar multi-party ecosystems.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including experience interpreting statistical analyses, marketplace data, large-scale product metrics, and experiments in environments where traditional A/B testing may have limitations.
Technical fluency sufficient to work deeply with engineers and data scientists on ML models, ranking and decisioning systems, experimentation frameworks, data pipelines, and system architecture.
Strong product judgment and user empathy, balancing monetization and consumer experience while translating ambiguous opportunities into concepts, hypotheses, experiments, and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution for monetization across Yahoo Search.
Drive improvements in Search revenue and RPM while maintaining user experience guardrails and high ad quality.
Optimize sponsored search including ranking, placement, density, and query coverage.
Define and build monetization models for AI-powered Search experiences, inventing and scaling new ad formats.
Modernize Yahoo Search ad optimization in collaboration with Engineering and Data Science.
Analyze monetization performance using statistics, marketplace data, and experiments to identify opportunities.
Design experiments in complex advertising environments with marketplace dynamics and limited traffic.
Establish metrics and measurement frameworks balancing revenue, RPM, advertiser value, and user experience.
Partner with external advertisers and technology partners to implement new experiences and scale products.