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.

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.

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.

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…