Director Of Product, Community

Director Of Product For Community

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.

Yahoo reaches hundreds of millions of people every day. It's one of the largest canvases on the internet. We are reimagining what it looks like with a thriving community at its core—real people with real perspectives sharing insightful commentary on what's happening in the world, not just algorithmic news links optimized for crawlers.

We're reimagining what community looks like at Yahoo's scale — where the best stories surface, sharp voices add context, and real conversation becomes the destination. The exact shape of this is yours to define.

As the Director of Product for Community, you will own this 0→1 build end-to-end. This is a high-autonomy role where you define the vision, the roadmap, and the outcomes. You'll work directly with senior leadership to shape the future of the most-visited pages on the internet. The constraints are real (SEO, revenue models, 200M+ users with expectations), but the upside of redefining community at scale is enormous.

What You'll Do

• Own the Community Product. Define the blueprint for participation on Yahoo—from comments and reactions to Substack-style perspectives and ranked voices.
• Be the internet's antenna. Live on the pulse of the digital zeitgeist—understanding the nuance between platforms like Bluesky, X, Substack, and Reddit. You have a sharp POV on the future of news (TechMeme, Ground News, Flipboard) and instinctively know where the community fits in.
• Envision AI-Powered Workflows. Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies for manual community management and content moderation tasks.
• Ship Fast on High-Stakes Surfaces. Navigate existing business constraints (SEO, ad revenue) while building something genuinely new. You'll thread the needle between legacy stability and startup-speed innovation.
• Build Personalization that's Habit-forming. Develop an engaging community experience by architecting AI-driven interest detection and natural language inputs to make community surfaces feel personalized and useful for every user.
• Lead Through Execution. Drive cross-functional alignment across design, engineering, and data science. Set the pace for a team culture that moves with "terminally online" urgency.
• Use AI to Build, Not Just Brainstorm. Prototype product concepts using tools like Claude Code and Cursor. Compress the time from idea to interactive artifact — and set the culture for your team to do the same.

What You Look Like

• Experience. 8+ years in product management, with 4+ years leading social, community, or content products at scale. You have successfully shipped products that required active user participation, not just passive consumption.
• Terminally Online. Your knowledge of memes, migration patterns, and internet vibe shifts is instinctive, not studied. You don't just examine these communities; you live in them.
• Proven AI Builder. You have a track record of building side projects and functional prototypes using AI agents (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code). You are comfortable figuring out new AI tools without a manual or a guide.
• Deep Product Sense & Taste. You have strong opinions on why products like Superhuman or Threads succeed or fail. We judge product sense by your judgment on existing products, not just your adherence to a process.
• Outcomes-Obsessed Modeler. You can compute the impact of a project from the bottom up. You build "back-of-the-napkin" financial models for product bets and define success clearly.
• Comfortable with massive ambiguity. You thrive in the early stages of a 0→1 build where the path isn't yet paved. You see constraints not as roadblocks, but as the interesting part of the problem. You have the intuition to make smart bets with imperfect information and the agility to adjust fast as we learn what resonates with our audience.

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.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don't require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You'll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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 +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

The compensation for this position ranges from $150,380.00 - $327,025.00/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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