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Senior Program Manager - Squad Operations - JR0024154_IL

at Yahoo! Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

  • Yahoo is a values-led company committed to building brands people love. We reach over one billion people around the world with a dynamic house of media and technology brands. A global leader in digital and mobile, Yahoo, is shaping the future of media.
  • As a Program Manager you will partner with design, engineering and product to help manage and lead the delivery of amazing and emotional end-to-end experiences that will delight our users for Home, News and Entertainment while driving the most value/yield for the business.
  • At Yahoo we want program managers that are an expert multitasker, a master planner, and a flexible thinker who can balance multiple objectives and teams in multiple locations.



  • In this role you will:
    • Support ~5 cross-functional squads - partnering with Product, Engineering and Design - within a Yahoo Business Unit.
    • Facilitate the product lifecycle to ensure a disciplined process from planning, opportunity assessment to delivery, encouraging inclusion and alignment across each squad. Help teams remove blockers, handle dependencies, and resolve prioritization conflicts.
    • Offer clarity around ownership, roles and responsibilities, obstacles, and drive accountability within squads.
    • Drive consistency with tools and process for key and critical ceremonies, coaching team and modeling best-practices. Foster a constructive dialogue, harmonize conflicting views, and lead resolution of contentious issues.
    • Act as key connectors to other parts of the organization, increasing transparency and alignment, and identifying cross-unit issues and opportunities to improve business outcomes.
    • Facilitate training programs and any centralized support needed to improve alignment and outcomes.



  • Requirements:
    • 8+ years of industry experience implementing and delivering initiatives as a technical program manager, project manager, SCRUM coach, or similar.
    • Deep knowledge of Agile/SCRUM methodologies. SCRUM Master certificate a plus.
    • Experience with JIRA/Confluence.
    • Prior success in complex, large-scale, multi-team environments in support of business goals. Consumer technology environments are a plus.
    • Demonstrated track record of cultivating strong working relationships and driving collaboration across multiple product and platform teams.
    • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.



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 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 submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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Job Posting: 11863153

Posted On: Apr 27, 2024

Updated On: Apr 27, 2024

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