Principal Product Manager - Contribution Experiences (Remote - United States)

What You'll Do

• Set a long term vision for new contribution concepts, guiding them from ideation through launch applying proven product development practices.
• Own and grow existing contribution products by identifying optimization opportunities, running experiments, and improving core metrics.
• Define and communicate a product strategy that connects your portfolio (new and mature products) to Yelp's ecosystem-level metrics such as content volume, engagement, and marketplace health.
• Build executive alignment on new bets by framing opportunities with data, clear hypotheses, and measurable success criteria.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with peer teams who own consumer surfaces, ensuring your products are adopted and surfaced across Yelp.
• Conduct competitive analysis and user research to inform product direction and keep the contribution experience compelling.
• Partner with engineering, design, analytics, and research to ship high-quality products at speed.

What It Takes to Succeed

• Ideally 8 years of experience in senior product roles.
• Marketplace experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to take a product from zero to one: identifying an opportunity, validating it, shipping it, and scaling it.
• Experience balancing a portfolio of products at different maturity stages, from early-stage incubation to growth optimization.
• Strong analytical skills. You use data to frame decisions, define success metrics, and make tradeoff recommendations.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You thrive in unstructured problem spaces and create clarity for your team and stakeholders.
• Excellent executive communication. You can distill complex product decisions into clear narratives that drive alignment at the leadership level.
• Understanding of how individual products impact broader platform and marketplace metrics, with the ability to drive alignment across teams you don't directly own.