Lead Product Manager, Platform - remote

At Yelp, you have the opportunity to make a real impact on a product used by millions of people every day. The team you’ll work with is dynamic, engaging, and fun, with a knack for making products that are reliable and scalable to our expanding market. The culture at Yelp is a unique environment combining the best parts of being at a startup with the stability and resources of a successful public company. You’ll have full ownership of the product you’re working on and will be able to make fast decisions in a highly collaborative environment.

Yelp is looking for an experienced product manager to build critical foundational platforms to power a $1B company, such as creating a Marketing Platform from the ground up, or a Product Foundations system that accelerates development and innovation of teams across the company. This is a highly cross-functional role where you’ll keep close communication across Yelp’s executive team, collaborate with other Product Managers, Engineers, Product Marketing, Marketing Operations partners and more to ultimately help create a vision for a large group of engineers.

We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular region. We welcome applicants from throughout Ontario and Quebec.

We Are Looking For:

• Define and prioritize the roadmap based on your understanding of the problem space, customer pain points and business needs.
• Define and scale the marketing &communications systems related to user segmentation, campaign creation, and unifying the vast amounts of Yelp data so that Engineers, Product Managers &Marketers alike can deliver the right message to the right person at the right time.
• Defining the roadmap for scaling one of our critical foundational platforms. Examples include:
• Marketing &technology systems related to user segmentation, campaign creation, and unifying the vast amounts of Yelp data so that Engineers, Product Managers &Marketers alike can deliver the right message to the right person at the right time.
• Foundational components that will be reused and scaled by product teams across the company to accelerate development and improve overall site and app performance.
• Team up with Engineering, Data Scientists, Business System Analysts to hone and iterate on your ideas.
• Partner with other product and engineering teams to identify highest leverage opportunities for the platform, as well as to evangelize and increase adoption.

What it takes to succeed:

• Experience leading the definition and delivery of products / features / projects which have a high degree of cross-functional complexity and integration.
• An enthusiasm for scaling a growing platform and are always thinking of ways to optimize.
• Excited to translate internal users’ needs into clear, well-defined functional and technical requirements backed by data analysis and an understanding of the industry landscape.
• An experienced product manager with a passion for technology;you’re not just concerned about what we build, but how we build it.
• Ability to communicate with engineers and executives in the same breadth.
• Committed to Yelp’s mission of connecting people with great local businesses

Other Requirements:

• Vaccination against COVID-19 is not required for this role. We nonetheless encourage all employees to get vaccinated. Employees who are not vaccinated may not visit Yelp’s offices or participate in any in-person work activities, and are not eligible to transfer or be promoted to a role that requires vaccination.

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other protected status.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 415-969-8488.

Note: Yelp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee. Yelp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.