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Lead Yahoo DSP’s advertising business across Horizon and Havas by managing executive agency relationships, developing partnership and go-to-market strategies, driving revenue growth, influencing product and sales activation, and representing Yahoo at agency forums and industry events. The role requires deep advertising agency ecosystem expertise, programmatic technology knowledge, cross-functional leadership, and a proven record of building strategic partnerships and delivering measurable revenue growth.

Lead the design and implementation of large-scale AI and machine learning systems for Yahoo Search across multiple teams. Define data strategies, evaluation frameworks, and scalable production-serving approaches. Drive technical alignment among engineering, product, design, and research teams; guide adoption of large language models, vision models, generative AI, and agentic AI; and oversee data analysis informing strategic product decisions.

Manage strategic advertiser accounts throughout the campaign lifecycle, serving as a consultative advisor and primary client contact. Monitor campaign performance, identify optimization and revenue-growth opportunities, resolve issues, and present insights and recommendations. Lead client onboarding and education, collaborate with Sales, Product, and Operations, advocate for customer needs, and use AI-powered workflows to improve analysis, efficiency, and client outcomes.

Lead the architecture and operation of Yahoo’s enterprise developer experience platform, including CI/CD, artifact management, GitOps deployments, and developer tooling. Design production agentic AI automation with evaluation frameworks, correctness checks, and security guardrails. Establish standardized workflows, templates, and CI practices; improve developer productivity through AI-assisted engineering and self-service portals. Partner with security and compliance teams, provide technical leadership, guide architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and measure platform adoption and reliability.

Leads quality engineering architecture for Yahoo Sports web, mobile, API, and cloud platforms. Builds scalable test automation frameworks, AI-driven test generation and diagnostics, CI/CD quality gates, performance and security testing, observability automation, defect triage, and release assurance. Partners with engineering and product teams to improve testability and risk mitigation, establishes quality standards, and mentors quality engineers.

Build and operate Yahoo’s developer experience platform, including CI/CD infrastructure, artifact repositories, release pipelines, and ArgoCD GitOps deployments. Develop reusable golden-path workflows, AI-assisted automation, configuration validation, and platform tooling. Support pipeline troubleshooting, artifact management, runner optimization, observability, security practices, and developer adoption through migrations, documentation, office hours, and technical enablement.

Lead research, architecture, and production deployment of large-scale algorithms for budget pacing, bid optimization, and marketplace balancing in Yahoo’s DSP. Apply control theory, optimization, and machine learning to real-time systems, while establishing AI-augmented research and engineering workflows. Own multi-quarter initiatives, define evaluation frameworks, guide technical strategy, collaborate with product and engineering leadership, mentor scientists and engineers, and communicate complex research and architectural decisions to executives.

Leads growth, engagement, and subscription revenue across Yahoo Sports products, including Fantasy, community, content, and future launches. Owns acquisition, onboarding, activation, conversion, retention, churn reduction, referrals, and subscriber perks. Partners with Marketing, Product, Engineering, Editorial, Business Development, and executive leadership to launch products, analyze cohort and engagement data, run experiments, and deliver growth outcomes across teams.

Design, build, and deploy high-throughput ML and LLM-powered personalization and agentic systems at consumer scale. Process petabyte-scale data, optimize real-time inference, implement resilient fallback paths, and balance latency, cost, and model quality while collaborating across engineering and product teams.

Lead editorial programming across web, mobile, app, and push for Yahoo Finance. Set strategy, KPIs, and editorial standards; manage a multi-time-zone team; partner with product, engineering, analytics; use data and AI to optimize headlines, alerts, and distribution across surfaces.