Director, Partner Search & Platform Growth

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking a Director of Product Management, Partner Search, to lead product strategy and execution for Yahoo's third-party Search business.

This hands-on leadership role combines individual product ownership with people management as you guide a small PM team and own a meaningful product area. You will define strategy across partner experiences, APIs, data reporting, monetization, and platform capabilities, while identifying new B2B distribution opportunities and driving

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and performance of Yahoo's Partner Search portfolio.
• Lead a small team of Product Managers; own a meaningful product area and drive discovery, prioritization, and execution.
• Develop an understanding of distribution partners, users, business models, traffic sources, and economics to identify high-value opportunities.
• Define product strategy for third-party Search experiences balancing partner needs, end-user value, platform scalability.
• Improve partner configurability across Search experiences, features, branding, data, APIs, and integrations while avoiding complexity.
• Drive initiatives that improve retention, engagement, search volume, and lifetime value across distributed traffic.
• Optimize monetization across partner experiences with new features and traffic/queries.
• Identify, prototype, and launch new B2B Search products and distribution opportunities, including APIs and product models.
• Build scalable platform capabilities including partner data/reporting, Search and XML APIs, syndication, configuration frameworks, and reusable services.
• Own and improve partner ecosystem capabilities related to traffic quality, integrity, compliance, including chain of custody, invalid traffic, domain matching, parked domain traffic, and governance.
• Use experimentation and performance measurement to guide decisions, define success metrics, evaluate tradeoffs, and identify new monetization and growth opportunities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to launch capabilities and improve existing integrations.
• Serve as a senior Product counterpart to strategic partners, shaping joint roadmaps and translating partner needs into investments.
• Monitor health and evolution of the partner portfolio across adoption, traffic quality, retention, monetization, satisfaction, competition, and platform cost.

Job description

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking a Director of Product Management, Partner Search, to lead product strategy and execution for Yahoo's third-party Search business.

This hands-on leadership role combines individual product ownership with people management as you guide a small PM team and own a meaningful product area. You will define strategy across partner experiences, APIs, data reporting, monetization, and platform capabilities, while identifying new B2B distribution opportunities and driving