Director of Partner Search Products & Growth

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo is seeking a Director of Product Management for Partner Search to lead product strategy and execution for its third-party Search business.

This hands-on leadership role combines product ownership with people management, focusing on growing partner traffic and revenue, improving retention and lifetime value, increasing monetization, and making Yahoo's partner Search platform more scalable and differentiated.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

Yahoo is seeking a Director of Product Management for Partner Search to lead product strategy and execution for its third-party Search business.

This hands-on leadership role combines product ownership with people management, focusing on growing partner traffic and revenue, improving retention and lifetime value, increasing monetization, and making Yahoo's partner Search platform more scalable and differentiated.