Director of AI Products, Yahoo News & Home

About the job

Yahoo reaches hundreds of millions of people globally through iconic products like Yahoo.com and Yahoo News. But the ways people consume information are changing rapidly — AI, generative content, and agentic interfaces are redefining habits and expectations.

We believe Yahoo can lead this shift by pioneering new AI-powered products and experiences that utilize our strong editorial and curation teams alongside our extensive journalism network to inform and entertain our audience. We believe a blend of AI-enabled tools + expert humans in the loop will give people the best information experiences in the noise of the modern digital world.

To make this real, we are hiring a Director of AI Products: an entrepreneurial builder who can turn emerging technologies into zero-to-one products that transform how users interact with Yahoo News & Home.

This is a highly entrepreneurial role inside Yahoo News: you will explore, prototype, and validate the next generation of AI experiences — from content generation to agentic companions — by working with a tight dedicated team as well as with other squads across Yahoo News to bring proven concepts to scale.

Role and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Why this role matters

This is not a typical product role. It’s a startup within Yahoo News focused solely on AI innovation. Success means identifying and validating bold AI-powered experiences that transform how millions engage with Yahoo’s content — and creating the playbooks that will define the next era of AI at Yahoo News.

Few roles offer the chance to shape how hundreds of millions consume trusted news and information in an increasingly critical time for both information and AI.

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.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

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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