Director, Product Management, Partner Search

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. in Omaha, Nebraska, seeks a Director of Product Management for Partner Search to lead strategy and execution across partner experiences, APIs, and monetization.

You will build and mentor a PM team, partner with cross-functional groups, and drive growth in partner traffic and revenue while ensuring platform scalability and data-driven decision making. This role blends product leadership with hands-on ownership, requiring strong commercial judgment and comfort working with

Responsibilities

• Own the Partner Search portfolio vision, strategy, roadmap, and performance including traffic, revenue, retention, LTV, monetization, and scalability.
• Lead and grow a small PM team while owning a product area and remaining engaged in discovery, prioritization, execution, and performance.
• Understand 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, user value, scalability, traffic quality, and business goals.
• Improve configurability and flexibility across Search experiences, features, branding, data, APIs, and integrations while controlling complexity.
• Drive initiatives that boost retention, engagement, search volume, and lifetime value across distributed traffic.
• Optimize monetization across partner experiences with new features and API-based improvements while preserving partner and user value.
• Identify, prototype, and launch new B2B Search products and distribution opportunities including APIs and product models.
• Build scalable platform capabilities such as partner data and reporting, Search and XML APIs, syndication, and reusable services.
• Own traffic quality, integrity, and compliance capabilities including chain of custody, invalid traffic, domain matching, and governance.
• Use experimentation and metrics to guide decisions, define success, evaluate tradeoffs, and identify new monetization opportunities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to launch capabilities and improve integrations.
• Serve as senior Product counterpart to strategic partners, shaping roadmaps and translating partner needs into scalable investments.
• Monitor health of the partner portfolio across adoption, traffic quality, retention, monetization, satisfaction, competition, and cost to guide direction.

Job description

Director, Product Management, Partner Search

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us

Yahoo Search helps millions of people find information, answers, products, services, and inspiration across the web. In addition to our owned and operated Search experiences, Yahoo powers Search for a broad ecosystem of third-party distribution partners across browsers, software, APIs, and other consumer and B2B experiences.

The Partner Search team is responsible for growing and evolving that ecosystem. We build products and platform capabilities that help partners deliver high-quality Search experiences, grow user engagement and lifetime value, improve monetization, and scale their businesses with Yahoo. The team works at the intersection of consumer Search, partner platforms, APIs, monetization, traffic quality, data, and business development.

About the Role

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

This is a hands-on product leadership role that combines individual product ownership with people management. You will manage a small team of Product Managers while also directly owning a meaningful product area. Together, the team will be responsible for growing partner traffic and revenue, improving retention and lifetime value, increasing monetization, and making Yahoo's partner Search platform more scalable and differentiated.

You will define product strategy across partner experiences, Search distribution, APIs, data and reporting, monetization, and platform capabilities. You will also identify and develop new B2B products and distribution opportunities that expand how partners can work with Yahoo.

The role requires strong commercial judgment, technical fluency, and comfort working directly with external partners. You will partner closely with Business Development and Partner Management, while serving as the senior Product counterpart in partner discussions, shaping joint product opportunities, diagnosing performance issues, and translating partner needs into scalable Yahoo products.

We are looking for someone who can operate like a product GM for the partner Search portfolio: setting direction, developing new ideas, driving measurable growth, coaching PMs, and personally getting into the details of product, data, APIs, traffic quality, monetization, and partner performance.

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.

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