Yahoo · 2 weeks ago
Principal Product Manager – Personalization
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$136K/yr - $284K/yr
8+ years expYahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions, reaching nearly 900 million people worldwide. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager – Personalization to lead the strategy and execution of AI-powered personalization capabilities in Yahoo Mail, focusing on creating a best-in-class recommendation engine that enhances user experience.
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Responsibilities
Own the personalization product strategy for Yahoo Mail, aligning with Mail Intelligence’s technical vision and business impact goals
Drive the definition of a multi-layered personalization stack—identity, embeddings, retrieval, ranking—partnering with engineering, architecture, and research to build world-class recommendation systems that unlock user value while optimizing for performance and cost
Lead the development of privacy-aware, context-rich systems that adapt to user intent, language, device, and lifecycle
Define experimentation and evaluation frameworks, including A/B testing, model performance, and relevance metrics
Partner with product managers driving experience and growth, as well as design and UXR teams, to integrate personalization seamlessly into user-facing flows
Define and track KPIs around personalization lift, relevance, engagement, and downstream impact
Champion a culture of personalization excellence, keeping Yahoo Mail at the forefront of innovation and research
Qualification
Required
8+ years of Product Management experience in AI/ML heavy domains—recommendation systems, personalization platforms, or search/ranking
Demonstrated success building and scaling real-time personalization engines or recommendation systems used by millions of users
Strong understanding of personalization techniques: Collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, hybrid models, deep learning-based approaches
Hands-on experience with ML lifecycle: Data acquisition, feature engineering, offline training, online inference, experimentation & evaluation
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to synthesize technical detail and strategic vision across varied audiences
Passionate about user experience, with a sharp product sense and empathy for consumer needs
Proven ability to align research, engineering, and cross-functional teams toward bold and measurable goals
Preferred
Well grounded in statistics and user intent modeling
Familiarity with privacy-preserving personalization methods (e.g., on-device inference, federated learning, differential privacy)
Experience scaling personalization for international and multilingual user bases
Exposure to real-time recommendation infrastructure and large-scale embedding systems
Benefits
Healthcare
A great 401k
Backup childcare
Education stipends
Much (much) more
Company
Yahoo
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.8MKey Investors
SoftBank GroupSequoia Capital
2021-05-03Acquired
1996-04-12IPO
1995-11-30Series B· $4.8M
Leadership Team
Monica Vorn Mijaleski
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Gupta
SVP Finance / Chief Treasury Officer
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