at Yahoo Holdings Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world.
A Little About Us
When you impact millions of people daily, you become a target for adversaries of all types. Our job is to keep our employees and consumers safe on the Internet. We are the Paranoids - Yahoo's information security team.
Our Cyber Experience group works every day to improve our Yahoo employee's security experience. The team:
- Evangelizes the value of best practices
- Productizes Paranoids' services so they are simple to use and adopt,
- And drives the adoption of safe behaviors among our colleagues so that the safe choice is the easy one and ultimately the only choice.
About the Role
As the Product Manager for the Cyber Experience team, you will spearhead efforts to transition our Paranoids Security Review (PSR) service into a comprehensive, product-like solution tailored to our internal stakeholders. The PSR service is a collection of nearly 50 cybersecurity services the Paranoid's offers to the business to improve our security posture, improve the user experience, and adoption of security practices.
Your role will involve streamlining collaboration between business units and security teams, delivering an exceptional user experience. We are looking to bring in a seasoned professional who can help us transform and streamline how Yahoo's business units engage with Paranoids security services while increasing speed and efficiency.
This position demands an understanding of security principles, strong project management capabilities, and the capacity to translate technical complexities into user-centric solutions.
A Lot About You
- Problem Solver : You are comfortable diving into ambiguous technical problems, working closely with technical and engineering teams
- Customer-centric : You thrive on spending time directly with customers, establishing close relationships, and becoming their go-to partners.
- High EQ : You have a keen sense of translating customer needs into product solutions that create value and drive business outcomes
- True Expertise : You have a solid understanding of the security principles and operations of a large security team.
What you'll do day-to-day
- Lead the transformation of the Paranoids' security review process into a user-friendly and scalable product for internal customers.
- Foster collaboration between business units, security teams, and other relevant stakeholders to gather requirements, prioritize features, and drive product enhancements.
- Continuously iterate on the product based on user feedback, emerging threats, and evolving business requirements, ensuring its relevance and effectiveness.
- Establish clear metrics and KPIs to continuously evaluate performance and user experience with a direct feedback loop into the product roadmap.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of relevant experience in Product Management or a relevant combination of education and experience
- Experience in an Agile product development environment
- Experience building web and shipping products with a demonstrated ability to drive product planning, development, and launch
- Ability to balance long-term strategic vision with short-term...
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