Sr. Product Manager, Platforms

Responsibilities

• Lead the product strategy for critical platform pillars, including Cloud Runtime (K8s), Security, and Messaging, ensuring alignment with Yahoo’s broader engineering goals.
• Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies in day-to-day work, replacing manual feedback analysis and documentation tasks with AI-assisted workflows.
• Deliver innovative platform solutions that reduce cognitive load, optimize costs, and improve the reliability of engineering systems at scale.
• Utilize generative AI tools to synthesize insights from customer feedback (surveys, interviews, analytics) to accelerate the definition of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
• Serve as a subject matter expert and thought leader, evangelizing the platform's value and future roadmap to stakeholders.
• Define and execute an AI-first product roadmap, ensuring models and autonomous agents are integrated to optimize platform performance and self-healing capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering, finance, and procurement to balance trade-offs between cost, technical feasibility, and speed to market.
• Exercise judgment in when to rely on AI-augmented oversight versus manual validation for critical system changes.
• Execute on internal go-to-market strategies to drive adoption and close the loop with our developer community.

Qualifications

• B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent technical experience.
• 4+ years of experience in product management, specifically within cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or distributed systems.
• 7+ years of total industry experience in software services.
• Proven ability to use AI productivity tools (e.g., Gemini, ChatGPT, or GitHub Copilot) to accelerate product discovery, documentation, and technical analysis.
• Demonstrated technical depth in cloud services (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and modern architectural patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to disambiguate complex problems for diverse audiences.