Product Lead - AOL Commerce

Yahoo Holdings • Nashville, TN

444d • $136,125 - $283,750 • Hybrid

About The Position

AOL is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the development and management of its growing commerce business. This role is pivotal in innovating the AOL experience, allowing users to engage with expansive content and products. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product management, market trends, and customer needs, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product innovation and align with business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5-10 years of product development experience
• Proven track record of delivering data driven solutions with a customer-first mindset
• Established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles
• Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of data and intelligence solutions, including a wide variety of mechanisms, e.g. dashboards, APIs, real time alerts, etc.
• World class product vision, strategy, planning, development, and execution
• Proven track record launching products on time and scaling to hit their goals
• Demonstrated ability to fuse editorial sensibility with product strategy and business objectives
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills to both lead cross-functional meetings and to communicate clearly with executive leadership
• Love of digital interactive media and the entrepreneurial drive to innovate its future
• Experience driving diversified revenue businesses across advertising, commerce, and subscriptions
• Data driven thinking and decision methodology
• Strong UX and design sense

Responsibilities

• Imagine new product capabilities and solutions and move your new ideas through the product lifecycle to build/development activities
• Effectively partner with stakeholders across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features and prioritization based on the business impact of each new initiative
• Translate the product roadmap and features into a well-defined requirements documentation inclusive of member feedback and acceptance test criteria
• Perform effectively in an agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and flag opportunities/risks as they arise
• Develop and maintain appropriate tracking and reporting of the product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment areas
• Define and hit quarterly and annual objectives and key results
• Develop a deep, ambitious, and research supported product roadmap focused on solving user needs that delivers impactful business results
• Drive alignment across the product team (pms, design, engineering), cross-functional partners (editorial, marketing, operations, sales, legal, etc), and the executive team.

Benefits

• Healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation
• Sick time
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree