Director, Product Management, Search Monetization
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- United States of America
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Fellowship
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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 val
- Demonstrated success improving scaled advertising or monetization products through optimization, experimentation, and data-driven decision making, with strong knowledge of ad ranking, relevance, place
- 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
- Technical fluency sufficient to work deeply with engineers and data scientists on machine learning models, ranking and decisioning systems, experimentation frameworks, data pipelines, and system archi
- Strong product judgment and user empathy, with demonstrated ability to balance monetization and consumer experience while translating ambiguous commercial opportunities into product concepts, hypothes
- Ability to operate as a highly autonomous, hands-on senior individual contributor, moving fluidly between strategy and detailed execution and communicating complex product, technical, and business tra
Nice to have
- Experience owning monetization for a large-scale consumer search, commerce, marketplace, or discovery product.
- Experience building or optimizing advertising products powered by machine learning, relevance models, recommendation systems, auction systems, or marketplace technology.
- Experience developing new advertising formats or monetization models, including for AI-powered, conversational, generative, recommendation, or agentic consumer experiences.
- Experience working across multiple external advertising or technology partners where product performance depends on systems outside your direct ownership.
- Familiarity with advertiser economics, auction dynamics, conversion measurement, attribution, and other components of the advertising ecosystem.
- A track record of identifying non-obvious monetization opportunities and turning them into products that create meaningful value for users, advertisers, and the business, including using AI-assisted t
Full description
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.
Director, Product Management, Search Monetization
A Little About Us
Yahoo Search helps millions of people find information, answers, products, services, and inspiration across the web. The Search Product team is building the next generation of Yahoo Search, evolving both our traditional search results experience and new AI-powered experiences such as Scout.
Monetization is a critical part of that future. Our team is responsible for creating advertising experiences that deliver strong value for users, advertisers, and Yahoo. We work at the intersection of consumer experience, advertising technology, machine learning, data science, and business strategy, with an opportunity to both optimize a scaled existing business and define entirely new monetization models for AI-powered search.
About the Role
We are seeking a Director of Product Management, Search Monetization to own product strategy and execution for monetization across Yahoo Search.
This is a senior individual contributor role for a hands-on product leader with deep experience in sponsored search and search advertising. You will be responsible for improving the performance of advertising across our search results pages while protecting and improving the overall user experience. You will also help define the future of monetization for AI-powered Search, including Scout, developing new ad products and commercial experiences that feel native to how people discover information and make decisions in conversational and generative experiences.
This role combines optimization and invention. You will work deeply on ad relevance, ranking, placement, density, query coverage, marketplace dynamics, and experimentation, while also identifying and developing entirely new advertising concepts and business models.
You will partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Design, Research, Business Development, Finance, and other Product teams. Because Yahoo works with external advertising marketplaces and technology partners, you will also play an important role in defining product requirements, identifying opportunities, and working across partner ecosystems to improve monetization outcomes.
We are looking for someone who can move comfortably between strategy and execution: defining where Search monetization should go, digging into performance data to understand why RPM moved, working with engineers and data scientists on optimization opportunities, and developing new ideas for how advertising can create value in the next generation of Search.