Principal Manager, Product

Job description

Yahoo Sports is one of the internet’s leading destinations for comprehensive sports news and innovative fantasy games. We produce insightful content across multiple platforms and curate quality coverage from around the web to inform and entertain fans. We're an original fantasy sports pioneer, with a legacy of innovation that helps us continue to be a fantasy leader. And as one of the most-visited sports platforms on the internet, we're one of the best places for brands to reach fans. Yahoo Media Group Principal Product Manager – Revenue Growth & Monetization A Little About Us Part of Yahoo Media Group brings two of Yahoo's most iconic brands, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports, connecting millions of users with the content, tools, and experiences they're passionate about. Yahoo Finance is the world's #1 finance destination, empowering over 150 million monthly visitors globally with trusted financial news, real-time market data, research, and powerful tools to make financial decisions with confidence.Yahoo Sports is a premier destination for sports news, content, and fantasy gaming. As an original fantasy sports pioneer, Yahoo Sports continues to innovate across its digital sports ecosystem, delivering engaging experiences that connect fans with the teams, leagues, and communities they love. Our Revenue Product team works across both brands to identify, develop, and optimize monetization opportunities, building scalable solutions that maximize revenue growth while delivering a high-quality user experience. AI is embedded into how we build products, enabling our teams to move faster, work more autonomously, and accelerate the path from ideas to production. We're looking for someone who embraces modern AI tools and workflows to drive efficiency, experimentation, and innovation throughout the product development lifecycle. The Role As a Principal Product Manager, Revenue Growth & Monetization for Yahoo Media Group, you'll own and drive a product roadmap focused on maximizing revenue yield across Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports. While advertising and supply optimization remain core to the role, your scope will extend across multiple revenue streams, including strategic partnerships and reserved sales. You'll balance analytical rigor with creative thinking, driving data-backed programmatic optimizations while developing innovative monetization solutions that unlock new revenue opportunities. This includes optimizing ad placements and rendering logic to developing flexible onsite promotional frameworks, audience targeting capabilities, and new monetization experiences. You'll work closely with engineering, design, analytics, sales, business development, and other product teams to prioritize opportunities, rapidly experiment, and deliver measurable revenue impact. This is a hands-on, AI-enabled product role. You'll be expected to leverage AI tooling throughout the product development lifecycle to accelerate research, data analysis, prototyping, technical discovery, documentation, and execution. We're looking for someone who can do more with modern tooling, challenge traditional workflows, and operate with a high degree of autonomy. This role reports to the Director of Revenue Product. Enough About Us, What About You? You: Are obsessed with data and business outcomes. You love digging into performance data, identifying opportunities, and translating insights into measurable revenue growth. Think holistically about monetization. You understand that every placement and user interaction has value, and can evaluate opportunities across advertising, subscriptions, commerce, and partnerships rather than optimizing each in isolation. Are technically fluent and AI-forward. You're comfortable working closely with engineers, understanding technical systems, and using AI tools to accelerate your own productivity and product development workflows. Move quickly and independently. You thrive in fast-moving environments where priorities evolve, opportunities emerge unexpectedly, and rapid experimentation matters. Balance revenue and user experience. You understand the tradeoffs between monetization, engagement, site performance, and long-term user value. Are a strong cross-functional partner. You can influence stakeholders, navigate competing business priorities, and communicate effectively from high-level strategy down to technical requirements. And, most importantly, you are a team player who enjoys motivating others to work together towards common goals. Are both strategic and hands-on. You can identify the right opportunities to pursue and do the detailed work required to bring them to market. You Must Have 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in digital media, advertising technology, monetization, or revenue growth. Demonstrated experience developing and executing product initiatives that drive measurable revenue growth across web and/or mobile applications. Strong understanding of programmatic advertising, ad serving, inventory management, and yield optimization. Experience leveraging analytics and experimentation platforms to uncover revenue optimization opportunities, develop and test hypotheses, and translate performance insights into actionable product improvements. Testing and data is core to this team. Proficiency using AI-assisted tools in day-to-day product development workflows, with the ability to independently accelerate research, analysis, prototyping, requirements development, and delivery. Technical fluency sufficient to collaborate closely with engineering on frontend code requirements, APIs, integrations, instrumentation, and platform capabilities. Proven ability to operate autonomously, manage competing priorities, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment. Nice to Have Experience with Google Ad Manager, Prebid, SSP integrations, and programmatic advertising infrastructure. Experience developing onsite monetization or promotional frameworks supporting multiple business initiatives. Familiarity with first-party audience targeting, segmentation, and privacy-conscious monetization strategies. Experience with AI-assisted coding, prototyping, SQL generation, or building lightweight internal tools to accelerate product discovery and development. Understanding of direct-sold advertising, campaign operations, revenue forecasting, and commercial product packaging. Experience working across digital media, sports, fantasy gaming, financial services, or other large-scale consumer platforms. The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity. At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter! Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please su