Sr. Product Manager - Partnerships; Yahoo Mail

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager, Partnerships to lead the product strategy and execution for Yahoo Mail's external partnerships and partner integration program. This role owns the relationships, product surfaces, and integration capabilities that serve our full partner ecosystem, including large‑scale partners, API consumers, MCP endpoints, platform customers, and industry partner developers.

• Own the product vision and roadmap for Yahoo Mail’s partner integrations and partner‑facing capabilities, across web, iOS, Android, and emerging surfaces.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across our partner ecosystem, ensuring seamless integration and a high‑quality experience for both partners and end users.
• Define and shape the strategic roadmap for the partner integration program, including patterns, APIs, MCP surfaces, developer tooling, and shared capabilities that determine how partners and their AI agents onboard, integrate, and operate over time across various integration models.
• Be the voice of partners within Yahoo Mail, advocating for their needs while protecting the platform from abuse and misuse.
• Partner closely with experience product managers and client and platform engineering teams to align on features, capabilities, and technical direction that affect partner integrations.
• Lead cross‑functional initiatives spanning product, engineering, design, business development, legal, and trust and safety, ensuring cohesive end‑to‑end execution.
• Work closely with trust and safety, security, and engineering to design partner‑facing surfaces that are resilient to abuse, including credential misuse, automated abuse, prompt injection, and emerging agent‑driven attack patterns.
• Identify new partnership opportunities aligned with Yahoo Mail’s strategic goals, and lead evaluation, scoping, and integration for selected opportunities.
• Define and track success metrics for the partnership program and individual partner relationships, using data to drive prioritization and inform investment decisions.
• Work with partners and the internal analytics team to define reporting requirements and build automated reporting views that scale across the partner base.
• Represent Yahoo Mail in partner‑facing and executive‑level discussions related to partnership strategy, integration approach, commercial considerations, and tradeoffs.

• Experience:
  
  5+ years of product management experience with significant ownership of partnerships, platforms, or large‑scale consumer products. Direct experience with email, messaging, or other communication platforms is a strong plus.
• Technical Translation:
  Ability to translate partner and business requirements into technical requirements and reason about how platform architecture shapes feasibility for partners and vice versa. Systems thinking, technical fluency across integration patterns, APIs, MCP, authentication, and identity flows, and the ability to engage as a credible peer with engineering on architectural tradeoffs.
• Trust and Abuse Prevention:
  Instinct for how partner‑facing surfaces can be abused, from credential and rate‑limit abuse on traditional APIs to emerging risks introduced by AI agents. Comfort partnering with trust and safety, security, and engineering to design commercially attractive and operationally safe integration surfaces.
• Partnership Management:
  Proven ability to build and manage relationships with external partners at scale, understanding their business needs and aligning them with product capabilities while protecting platform health.
• Cross‑Functional Leadership:
  Success leading cross‑functional initiatives spanning product, engineering, business development, and legal, with multiple external dependencies and contractual considerations.
• Product Judgment:
  Strong instincts for prioritization, sequencing, and tradeoffs, translating partner needs into product features and roadmaps that deliver value to end users while remaining sustainable for Yahoo Mail.
• Commercial Awareness:
  Comfort operating in environments where product, business, and contractual considerations intersect, weighing commercial impact alongside…