Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is a global leader helping people achieve their online goals through a portfolio of iconic products. They are seeking a Director of AI Products to pioneer new AI-powered products and experiences that enhance user interaction with Yahoo News & Home by leading innovation and integrating AI features into user-facing surfaces.
Responsibilities
• Lead AI innovation pipeline: scout, prototype, and validate new AI-driven features and user experiences that use our curation roots, editorial strength and extensive content network to super-serve our audience in innovative ways
• Build with AI tools: design and test concepts including text-to-video pipelines, generative explainers, and agentic experiences powered by Yahoo’s content and editorial teams to create signal vs noise and keep users informed and entertained in new meaningful and convenient ways.
• Translate ambiguity into opportunity: frame user problems and design experiments that test how AI can uniquely solve them.
• Ensure quality & trust: create frameworks for iteration, feedback loops, and editorial oversight to maintain high standards for AI outputs.
• Partner across Yahoo: work with Editorial, Engineering, Data, Search, Mail, and Commerce to integrate AI pilots into user-facing surfaces.
• Socialize learnings: communicate results, playbooks, and risks to senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Lead a cross functional team of innovative experts: You will lead a dedicated cross-functional squad resourced for rapid prototyping and interface regularly with leadership.
Skills
• 7+ years in product management, innovation, or applied AI product roles with a proven track record of shipping impactful zero-to-one products.
• Deep experience leading, motivating and inspiring product development teams towards fast and effective execution in a fast-paced dynamic environment - showing real business and user impact in short time frames.
• Hands-on experience building, shipping and iterating on user-facing features built on generative AI, agentic systems, and multi-modal content pipelines.
• Strong understanding of product discovery methods, user research, and hypothesis-driven development.
• Deep experience ensuring AI quality, safety, and transparency in consumer-facing applications and in building internal tools that support evaluation and optimization loops for AI-supported user-facing features.
• Ability to prototype scrappily, iterate quickly, and unblock independently.
• Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills that drive stakeholder alignment and rally support across teams.
• Experience in news, media, or content ecosystems.
• Familiarity with editorial workflows, trust and safety in AI systems, and content quality frameworks.
• Track record of scaling early AI pilots into production-ready products.
• Passion for reimagining how AI can make news and information more useful, accessible, and engaging.
Benefits
• Healthcare
• A great 401k
• Backup childcare
• Education stipends
• Much (much) more
Company Overview
• Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.yahoo.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
• Yahoo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 197 in 2023, 646 in 2022, 381 in 2021, 463 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
