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Director Product Management & Strategy Yodle Organic– New York, NY

Location:

New York, NY

Overview
Do you want to have a direct effect on the future success of a fast growing company? One that is experiencing 135% year over year growth in the fastest growing industry on the web?

If you have the talent and dedication to strive for excellence while also taking initiative in your respective position…Yodle is looking for you.

In this position, you will have an opportunity to leverage your Product Management and strategy expertise in creating an end-to-end advertising platform that enables local business to get new business from the internet and track and measure the return on investment for the ad-spending.

In this highly visible role, you will be spearheading the development of the Yodle Organic Product. You will work with senior leadership to develop the product strategy and roadmap, define business requirements, features and functionality, set timelines and lead a cross-functional team through development and implementation.

Responsibilities
Product Management
• Define product strategy, quarterly roadmap and milestones
• Manage a team of product managers to define business requirements and features
• Lead cross-functional team in overall project management, release planning and agile product development process
• Lead customer research

Product Marketing & Strategy
• Discover, understand and validate market problems
• Define market opportunity and competitive differentiators
• Build pricing models
• Work with Sales and B2B marketing on sales positioning
• Analyze product profitability
• Assess buy/build/partner decisions

Qualifications
• 4-8 years experience with online product management/development roles in internet media or ecommerce
• Proven track record of product leadership and success
• Significant experience working with usability and user interface designers and front-end developers
• Excellent data analysis skills
• Excellent writing, organizational and communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and communicate results to management
• Ability to work on multiple projects with varying deadlines
• Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint
• People management experience preferred but not required
• Knowledge of online advertising is a plus
• Superior intellectual acumen

Compensation
What we offer to you:
• An opportunity to further enhance your skills and refine your talent
• Competitive base
• Health/Dental benefits, 401 (K) plan
• Great work environment - we have fun!
• Accessible and open-minded leadership
• Opportunity to work with smart people and learn a lot about one of the fastest growing industries

About Yodle
Yodle is a Bessemer Ventures funded company in the midst of a major national roll out that will grow our client base dramatically over the next several years. We provide search-engine advertising and online lead generation services to small businesses. Yodle has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online. We provide local businesses with a simple way to cost-effectively acquire more customers by advertising on the major search engines including: Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, and MSN.

Local Search is considered the new frontier in paid search marketing, the fastest growing area of both technology and advertising and the key driver of Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Over $100 billion is spent on local advertising in the U.S alone. $3 billion of that has already transitioned online. A significant opening exists to devise, build, and capitalize on this opportunity within the next 2-4 years.

Yodle Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate based on age, gender, religion, disability, marital status, race and also adheres to laws relating to non-discrimination on the basis of national origin and citizenship status.
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