Director, Software Apps Engineering – AI-Native Development and Product

Overview

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It's the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

Yahoo is made up of several organizations, each led by a GM and focused on driving key product lines. This role sits within the Yahoo Mail group, home to our flagship product, Yahoo Mail. You ll be joining a team that has a great product line with 4.5+ star app experiences, strong business foundation, and robust technology. We are building the most consumer-focused platform for managing the "business of life," through email and beyond.

You ll join a team of engineers dedicated to delivering the best consumer mail experience, refining every detail to make that vision a reality.

You re an experienced engineering leader who loves building and empowering teams to create and maintain products that delight millions of users. You re passionate about high-quality application development, technology stack, and the cloud. You take pride in seeing your teams deliver great consumer experiences  know how to balance big-picture vision with hands-on leadership, guiding teams to think deeply about users, scenarios, and edge cases, while driving projects to successful completion.

You lead with empathy and curiosity, create a culture of growth and collaboration, and understand the broader impact of great engineering on both people and the business. If you re excited to join a world-class team of passionate engineers and industry veterans who care about code quality, design, and user experience as much as they enjoy working together, we d love to talk to you.

• Build, lead, and scale high-performing full-stack engineering teams that deliver world-class consumer products and experiences used by millions of customers globally.
• Define and execute the engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap, aligning technical investments with product priorities, business objectives, and long-term platform evolution.
• Drive AI-native software development practices across the organization, leveraging AI-powered tools, agents, automation, and modern engineering workflows to improve productivity, quality, and speed of execution.
• Lead AI transformation initiatives that reimagine how products are built, operated, and experienced, creating measurable value for users, developers, and the business.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and business leaders to identify, prioritize, and deliver innovative AI-powered customer experiences that differentiate Yahoo Mail in the market.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, customer obsession, experimentation, and continuous learning while attracting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent.
• Stay at the forefront of emerging technologies and AI advancements, guiding architectural decisions, technical reviews, and strategic investments that enable scalable and responsible innovation.

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience building and delivering large-scale consumer software products, with at least 5+ years leading multiple engineering teams and engineering managers.
• Proven success leading engineering organizations that consistently deliver high-quality products while balancing innovation, execution, operational excellence, and business outcomes.
• Experience leading AI-native product organizations or large-scale AI transformation programs within consumer technology companies.
• Demonstrated experience operating in an AI-native development environment and leveraging modern AI technologies, copilots, agents, and automation to transform engineering workflows.
• Proven track record leading AI transformation initiatives that have delivered measurable improvements in developer productivity, customer experience, operational efficiency, or business performance.
• Strong technical expertise in modern application development, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, mobile and web platforms, and scalable software design.
• Hands-on experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Swift, or similar technologies, with the ability to engage deeply in technical discussions and architectural decisions.
• Experience integrating Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), machine learning capabilities, or intelligent agent systems into products, platforms, or engineering processes.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to identify and prioritize opportunities where AI can create competitive advantage, accelerate growth, improve customer engagement, and unlock operational efficiencies.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational skills, with demonstrated ability to influence across functions, drive organizational change, and build…