Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is a leading consumer inbox provider with hundreds of millions of users, and they are seeking a Principal Product Manager for Yahoo Mail. This role involves leading the product strategy and execution for Yahoo Mail’s client platforms, ensuring secure and scalable user experiences while guiding large-scale platform transitions.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for Yahoo Mail’s client platforms and shared services across web, iOS, Android, and emerging surfaces
• Define and shape the strategic roadmaps for Yahoo Mail client platforms, including decisions around codebases, architectural patterns, and technology investments that enable long-term scalability and maintainability
• Partner closely with application engineering teams to ensure client platforms are built and operated in a cost-efficient manner, balancing performance, developer velocity, and operational complexity
• Drive adoption of modern technologies and platform capabilities to deliver fast, reliable, and secure user experiences across all clients
• Partner with AI and platform teams to enable client-side support for AI-powered experiences, ensuring Yahoo Mail clients can securely and efficiently integrate capabilities such as intelligent assistance, personalization, and emerging AI-driven features
• Lead cross-platform initiatives spanning authentication, identity, privacy, security, and compliance, in close collaboration with central platform teams
• Act as the connective tissue between client engineering, experience-focused product managers, and backend platform teams, ensuring cohesive end-to-end execution
• Drive platform consistency while enabling differentiated experiences across clients where appropriate
• Lead complex platform transitions, service separations, and long-running partner support programs that require coordination across multiple teams, organizations, and external stakeholders
• Ensure client platforms are resilient to organizational change, capable of operating independently where required, and aligned with long-term commercial, legal, and regulatory constraints
• Represent Yahoo Mail in executive-level discussions related to platform strategy, technical risk, timelines, and tradeoffs
• Define and track success metrics across performance, security posture, reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity, using data to guide prioritization and investment decisions

Skills

• 10+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of platforms, infrastructure-adjacent products, or large-scale client systems
• Experience building and operating consumer applications at scale is strongly preferred
• Direct experience with email platforms or messaging systems is a strong plus
• Proven ability to define and evolve shared capabilities used by many teams, balancing consistency with flexibility while keeping end users and business customers connected through reliable, scalable platforms
• Strong technical fluency across client architectures, authentication and identity systems, privacy and security controls, and platform integrations
• Familiarity with the complexity and constraints of email ecosystems (deliverability, trust, abuse prevention, identity, and standards) is highly valued
• Demonstrated success leading ambiguous, multi-year initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, external dependencies, and contractual considerations, while maintaining operational stability and user trust
• Exceptional ability to align engineering, legal, privacy, security, commercial, and executive stakeholders around a common plan
• Strong instincts for risk management, sequencing, and tradeoffs in high-impact, high-visibility environments, with a focus on protecting user trust and long-term platform health
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical, organizational, and platform concepts to senior audiences
• A genuine interest in building products that empower people in their day-to-day lives, with an appreciation for email as a vital, enduring communications tool

Benefits

• Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions
• Healthcare
• A great 401k
• Backup childcare
• Education stipends

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