Advanced through roles of increasing responsibility, ultimately providing strategic vision and leadership for Yahoo Search.Played crucial role in driving global product development and user-centric growth, transforming search experiences, integrating AI/ML technologies, and scaling products. Fostered collaborative and high-performance culture within international team, significantly enhancing user engagement and satisfaction.

Lead a team of product mangers in driving forward engaging and enriching search experiences that highlight the best of what our ecosystem has to offer; while continually focusing on driving forward the search KPIs of volume and revenue. Focused on building strong cross-functional relationships to deliver timely, data-driven solutions.

Lead for growth initiatives to discover new ways to enhance and engage users on Search. Increased exploration in search and content experiences by +80% and driven more traffic back to properties and Search. Focus on highlighting the differentiating strengths of Search while ensuring the experience is comprehensive and iterative. Lead an innovation team to create a search assistant that uses location and interest for a personalized experience for users on various platforms. Manage a global platform that allows for scale, standardization, and customization for all devices, markets and partners that impacts millions of users. Leverage the platform to launch experiences for events such as Elections, World Cup, and Olympics.Launch a simplified tool that enables the quick creation and standardization of new experiences across all of Search.

Drive and launch a new end-to-end technology stack for all markets and devices for Search, while maintaining aggressive revenue goals. Consolidated all search experiences into one platform to allow for consistency and clarity. Delivered on time with key metrics for revenue and engagement defined and met. Define and prioritize the roadmap that supports over 30 markets and partners. Partner closely with leadership, engineering, design, editors, and legal to set expectations and deliver on time.

Launched first knowledge graph on Search to drive deeper engagement and increased searches. Launched global sporting events (Winter Olympics, March Madness and FIFA World Cup) that increased search engagement by 3x.Increased user engagement through rapid experimentation and optimization. Focused on improving relevance, consistency, triggering, and coverage for search experiences.

Define and improve the global online account recovery process for users. Coordinate across various teams to create a prioritized feature set and work with the development teams to implement on time. Monitoring the results and making necessary adjustments.Work with teams on enhancing user security and reducing abuse activity for new and existing accounts.Educating teams and users on user account information and management.

Manage communication and deployment of new product launches and enhancements to the global marketing solutions team. Collect and analyze market opportunities, validate requirements and partner with the product team to prioritize the backlog. Lead go-to-market planning for new ad product launchesWork with the product team to resolve any ad product issues and risks.

Manage a global social media product and platform at Yahoo!. Drive the product initiatives from vision, definition to execution. Collaborate across functional and product teams to deliver favorable results. Derive and coordinate with multiple teams product requirements to form one consolidated set of requirements to deliver a product that will not only meet the business needs, but also delight users.Create and implement a well-defined process and strategy to get Social Platform projects launched on-time for internal properties and external developers.

Drive product development by working closely with a core product development team and cross-functional team including Business, Product and Project Management, Engineering, Architect, QA, Research, Marketing, Editorial and Design.Organize and plan the integration of the Social Platforms with customers by building solid relationships with property and platform managers to form requirements and roadmaps to deliver timely solutions.

Define and drive new product strategies and identify gaps for enhancement in existing product lines for the creation, marketing and monetization of user-generated media across Yahoo! properties. Integrate user-content into existing properties, including: initiating and building strong relationships with property managers, prioritizing opportunities, building business cases and mock-ups, and project-managing implementations through launch.Facilitate agile product development by serving as “scrum master,” working closely with a core product development team including Business and Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Editorial and Design.

Drive and implemented online marketing programs across multiple properties within Yahoo! Media Group including Games, Sports, Finance, Health and Kids.Develop, forecast and manage online on-network media campaigns to increase customer acquisition, engagement, conversion, retention and customer lifetime revenue. Managed search engine marketing for Yahoo! Media Group..Managed creative development for online advertising programs for Yahoo! Games.