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Director, Technology Strategy & Operations

Yahoo · United States of America · On-site

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About the role

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in strategy and operations, business operations, product operations, management consulting, technology finance, or technical program management within large-scale technology environments
  • Proven track record partnering directly with C-level, VP, and senior Product and Engineering leaders to guide strategic decisions and drive operational alignment
  • Demonstrated capability as a player-coach, combining empathetic people leadership with hands-on analytical and narrative-crafting execution
  • Exceptional strategic, financial, and analytical judgment, with demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous challenges into structured frameworks and decisive recommendations
  • Proven experience architecting and improving large-scale planning processes, executive business reviews, operational metrics, and governance cadences
  • Deep financial acumen, including experience with technology budget management, workforce modeling, capital labor, and cloud/infrastructure unit economics
More about this role

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

Yahoo’s Central Technology organization brings together the foundational technology capabilities that enable Yahoo to operate, innovate, and scale—spanning infrastructure, shared platforms, enterprise engineering, and company-wide services.

The Strategy & Operations team operates across Central Technology and the Office of the CTO to run the organization as a high-performing business. We connect strategic vision, capital and cloud investments, operational execution, and executive communications so our stakeholders clearly understand what Central Technology is delivering, why it matters, and the measurable business value it creates for Yahoo.

You are a strategic operator who navigates effortlessly between big-picture strategy and high-impact operational execution. You bring structure to ambiguous problems, develop a clear...

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