A little about us
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love — from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news — with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world’s best curator for our 35 million daily users and expanding our distribution to meet millions more users where they are. Our team owns the homepage, news, entertainment and lifestyle sections, newsletters and news apps. Building the best guide to the Internet (and the world) requires building the best team.
The right candidate will possess a mixture of quantitative chops and creative intuition – someone who loves digging into the data to drive insights while at the same time identifying the open space where we can grow. If you’re passionate about News, Entertainment and Lifestyle content of all formats (text, video, etc) and have experience analyzing dashboards and spreadsheets to draw insights, keep reading.
The Role
As the Director of Revenue Operations for Yahoo News, you will be collaborating with our finance, sales, ad tech, product and premium sales teams to become a deep expert in the News revenue cycle and how monetization works across our News ecosystem.
Your day-to-day will involve understanding the health and performance of all of our monetization levers (direct and programmatic display ads, commerce, native ads, social, newsletters, subscriptions and video) and how we are pacing both near-term and strategically as we balance business, advertiser and user needs. You’ll be responsible for sharing our progress against goals, measuring trends and impact and making recommendations about how we can improve monetization across strategic initiatives. It’s an exciting opportunity where you’ll have the ability to leverage the scale and resources of Yahoo’s teams to make a big impact on the Yahoo News business.
A Lot About You
The ideal candidate:
- Loves to collaborate and is comfortable working across a multitude of teams with different functions and roadmaps. You inspire and focus your teammates and peers by using great listening skills, your influence, and crisp, effective communication.
- Possesses a mixture of quantitative chops and creative intuition. You are someone who loves to dig into the data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement in revenue operations.
- Develops strategies, processes and plans that help measure and maximize the business’ overall revenue growth. You like to partner closely with product and business partners to identify and build solutions that both the business and the market needs.
- Obsesses over reducing costs and increasing efficiencies. You like working with finance, IT, sales, etc. to find ways to improve processes and systems that lead to increased profitability.
- You support your expertise with a keen ability to break down large, complex problems into well-defined, manageable problems, and an ability to use data to inform your judgment
- Driven to succeed with a high comfort level with ambiguity and fluidity, and the ability to make decisions in a rapidly changing environment while achieving quality results
You Must Have:
- Experience managing projects from start to finish, with effective communication, organization and stakeholder management
- Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for revenue improvement while also staying on top of new trends in industry and technology
- Proven track record of executing revenue projects that show thoughtful prioritization and a balance between optimizing RPMs and user experience. This includes experience setting up processes and systems to track revenue, monitoring financial performance, developing forecasting models, analyzing customer data, and more.
- Strong problem solving skills and analytical skills
- Experience collaborating with demand/yield teams to drive eCPM growth
Nice to Have(s):
- Familiarity with Google Ad Manager
- Familiarity with how advertisers are buying media and the operational workflows to traffic and report on advertising campaigns
- Familiarity with contextual and behavioral advertising trends and how the current landscape is evolving around audience data and privacy compliance
- Comfortable & proficient at working autonomously with analytics platforms is a huge plus
If you thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, value diversity and enjoy solving hard problems with smart people, we would love to hear from you. Join us at Yahoo News and make a significant impact on how users understand and engage with the news. .
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.
At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.
The compensation for this position ranges from $174,105.00 - $378,460.00/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, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.
If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.
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