Product Manager

GeoCities Product Manager

Yahoo! is looking for a talented, seasoned product manager to drive our Yahoo! GeoCities product line. Yahoo! GeoCities is the online community will millions of members and the most widely recognized name in online self-publishing. In this role, you will manage our free and paid consumer web hosting business. You will work closely with engineering, user experience design, marketing, operations, and customer care teams to deliver great products to the market. This role is mostly traditional inbound product management plus some traditional outbound product marketing.

Key responsibilities include managing the full product lifecycle, from ideation through to maintenance; owning the customer experience and maintaining a deep understanding of competitive offerings; developing business cases to drive investments; soliciting customer feedback from customers, from customer care, and through market research; translating customer needs into prioritized product requirements; writing product requirements documents; working closely with user experience design to develop functional specifications; managing prioritization and trade-offs across functions and features; driving product roadmap and vision for the consumer product line; coordinating releases and functionality with the business web hosting product line; working closely with engineering and QA to deliver quality products on schedule; working with Marketing and Sales to develop product messaging and positioning; collaborating on product launch materials; and providing post-launch support.

Desired qualifications include 5+ years of product management experience planning, launching and supporting software products; demonstrated track record of success building consumer communities and serving consumer needs; demonstrated track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams to launch great products; experience preparing requirements documents (MRD / PRD); experience working with marketing to prepare product positioning and market content; being comfortable in a fast-paced, innovative environment; being thorough, articulate, and results oriented; strong analytical and technical skills. Experience with recurring revenue hosted products a plus.

MBA desired; undergraduate degree a must, technical undergraduate degree a plus.

Please apply online at http://careers.yahoo.com.