Manager, Product Analytics - Yahoo News

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.

A Little About Us

At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world’s best curator for our 35 million daily users, expanding our distribution to more platforms to meet millions more users where they are. Building the best guide to the Internet (and the world) requires building the best team.

The Analytics team is the driving force behind experimental analysis, data science and business intelligence for Yahoo News. We thrive on data and insights to craft outstanding product and content experiences. Our commitment is towards providing data-driven guidance that fuels user growth and product innovation, maintaining high-quality data standards, and devising insightful tests and advanced analyses.

A Lot About You

As a Product Analytics Manager for Yahoo News, you will uncover and share critical insights that will shape our product roadmap and the future of the business. You will collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a wide range of cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Research, and others. You will use data to shape product development, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to our users. You will help your partner teams prioritize what to build, set goals, and understand their product's ecosystem.

Core Responsibilities
 

Product-Performance Analytics

• Lead efforts to track and analyze key product metrics to evaluate the success of new and existing features.

• Define and maintain product KPIs to measure and communicate product impact.

• Partner with product and engineering teams to ensure quality instrumentation.

• Develop and automate dashboards and reports to provide real-time insights into product performance.

• Provide regular performance reports (weekly, monthly, quarterly) to track progress and inform stakeholders.

Data-Driven Decision Making 

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities for data analysis that inform product decisions.

• Find the thread across multiple data points and translate the data into actionable insights

• Design and analyze A/B tests and experiments to support feature releases, ensuring data is accurately collected and interpreted. 

• Advise product teams on data-backed recommendations to improve product features and user experiences. 

• Communicate complex analytical findings in a clear, accessible manner to influence product direction and strategy.

• Undertake ad-hoc analysis for other stakeholders.

User Behavior Analysis 

• Dive deep into user data to uncover behavioral patterns, preferences, and pain points that will influence product development. 

• Leverage quantitative and qualitative data to provide insights into user journeys and identify areas for improvement or innovation.

Who You Are:

• A product analytics professional with experience working on consumer products, preferably in the Media and/or Tech space.

• An analytics leader who can find the thread across multiple data points, translate the data into actional insights, and is not afraid to tell the difficult story to stakeholders. 

• Experienced with fast-paced teams working across time-zones that move quickly on product iterations while working on multiple projects within a matrixed team. 

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years experience of work experience in Data Science, Marketing Analytics, Product Analytics Consulting, Decision Science and/or Business Analytics 

• Experience in building business-facing visualizations and dashboards (Tableau, Looker)

• Proven ability to drive decision-making using data, working cross-functionally with diverse teams.

• Proven track-record of deriving insights from large data sources and presenting in a clear and concise narrative form. 

• Superior organization, project management skills, and attention to detail.

• Experience with A/B testing, experimentation, and user behavior analysis

• Strong proficiency in SQL

• Experience in checking analytics instrumentation and proactively communicating issues to engineers and PMs.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.

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.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $102,000.00 - $212,500.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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