Yahoo! Groups Job Openings

Interaction Designer

Yahoo! User Experience Design is looking for a bright, motivated interaction designer to join the Yahoo! Groups team. Yahoo! Groups empowers group leaders to grow, customize, and participate in global online communities. As an interaction designer you will collaborate with product management, engineering, marketing, user research and visual design to produce innovative designs that best meet customer needs.

• Setting product direction and UI requirements based on business, user and brand needs
• Collaborating with product managers, engineers and research specialists to define the user experience
• Designing user interaction models, workflows and user interfaces
• Working hand in hand with visual designers, web developers and engineers to deliver the final product
• Pushing the boundaries of what's possible to create better experiences for our users

• 5+ years of experience as a key member of a UI team through the product development cycle of several successfully launched web, mobile and/or software applications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in HCI, product design, human factors/ergonomics or related field
• Although a business degree is not required, the candidate must have a strong affinity with business and user metrics

• Experience building pages using HTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript etc.
• Ability to prototype in Flash, Director or other dynamic prototyping tools
• Past experience working in an Agile/SCRUM environment

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Senior QA Engineer

Yahoo! Groups QA is searching for an experienced client and web savvy, talented, highly motivated, quality focused, process oriented and successful senior QA engineer to join our team.

The individual must have a combination of solid in-depth knowledge of QA, QA's goals, working with QA and non-QA groups, and extensive background in solid test coverage of complex commercial Enterprise Web-applications in 24x7 production environments. She/He is responsible for providing Quality Assurance for server based technologies. This will include the creation of test suites and test harness for front and backend testing, including API testing, automating UI test cases, defining test plans and test specifications, designing tools for automated performance testing, execution of test cases, and reporting product failures. Following project milestones, design, implement, document, and/or execute tests; evaluate and communicate results; develop API tests; and investigate product features (including ad hoc testing). The candidate will be expected to communicate clearly and effectively. The successful candidate would also be responsible for setting up the processes required to promote the overall quality of the product.

• Solid 7+ years of outstanding track record as a grey-box and white-box QA engineer.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Expert in testing and leading black, gray and white-box QA. Active team participant with strong technical and personal leadership skills.
• Strong hands-on experience writing QA test plans and test cases while executing them. Expert in QA methodologies, procedures & documentation.
• Strong hands-on experience in test harness tools development, and automated (front and backend) testing in the client and web world.
• Expert in client testing as well as web testing with multiple Web configurations, Web browsers and Windows platforms.
• Competent in developing web-based test suites and QA tools.
• 5+ years experience in scripting languages (PHP and/or PERL) and Shell scripting.
• 5+ years experience on UNIX.
• 5+ years experience in HTML, JavaScript, and XML.
• Excellent understanding of Internet protocols (HTTP, SMTP, XML)
• Programming experience (C++, and/or Java) is a plus.
• Strong written & verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Customer-focused, ability to triage issues, react well to changes, work independently or with teams and being able to multi-task on multiple products and projects.
• Self-starter, team player, highly organized, infrastructure and process-oriented, strong people and technical leadership.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle.

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Senior Product Manager

Yahoo! Groups, a global online community serving 100M+ users across 8M groups, seeks a product leader who is an innovative strategist and doer with extensive hands-on product management and agile development experience. You will identify, evaluate and drive opportunities to grow our business by optimizing monetization and developing new revenue-generating product features. You will oversee and have ultimate responsibility for core product functionality by identifying market requirements, defining the product vision, and leading development and optimization efforts. You will lead a cross-functional team of business developers, engineers, designers, marketing managers, community managers, and customer care representatives who are passionate about helping group moderators to build life-changing online communities.

• Lead large cross-functional teams (market and usability research, marketing, design, engineering, customer care, and data tracking & reporting) to launch and continuously improve core Yahoo! Groups features and functionality.
• Identify site-wide product enhancements that will improve monetization of group activity.
• Work with management to formulate business cases for new products and help craft a compelling long-term vision for Yahoo! Groups.
• Define, track and improve key business and product success metrics.
• Develop a comprehensive strategic understanding of the online community and social networking landscape and identify areas for competitive differentiation.

• 6+ years of product management experience in profitable, web-based consumer services, preferably in growing online communities.
• First-hand working knowledge of agile software development methodologies (scrum).
• Specialized understanding of online advertising, sponsorship, and monetization best practices and hands-on expertise in maximizing online consumer engagement.
• Proven track record of developing, launching and improving consumer-facing internet applications on time and within budget, ideally in both entrepreneurial startups and larger corporate environments.
• Relentless attention to operating and usage metrics to identify opportunities for product improvement and business growth. Proficiency in quantitative analysis.
• Solid written/oral communication skills with a proven talent for creating clear, concise, and impactful product management documents (Candidates should be prepared to provide samples of past MRDs/PRDs during the interview process).
• Outstanding team player and relationship builder with the capability to coordinate people and activities across multiple functional areas or business units.
• Demonstrated organizational leadership in a fast-paced matrix environment.
• Ability to move fluidly between high-level strategic thinking and take-charge management of day-to-day details.
• Equally comfortable with seeing the "big picture" and meticulously thinking through every interaction requirement of online development projects.
• Ability to prioritize among competing opportunities and articulate the financial and strategic impact of decisions.
• Demonstrated strong capabilities in creating and delivering persuasive, structured presentations at all levels of the organization and to external strategic partners.
• Familiarity with current online community and social networking industry and products. Active Yahoo! Groups members/moderators preferred.
• MBA from a leading program preferred. BA/BS required.

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Yahoo! Groups Frontend Developer

Work closely with interaction designers, visual designers, backend engineers and product managers to build new features or improve existing ones on the Yahoo! Groups web frontend. Through the effective and creative use of CSS, Javascript and HTML, implement a dynamic and vibrant experience for Yahoo! Groups users.

• 3+ years of industry experience
• Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Strong command of web standards, CSS-driven/tableless HTML layouts, DHTML (JavaScript 1.0-1.5, CSS1 & CSS2, DOM Levels 0-2), AJAX, cross-browser compatibility and browser degradation strategies
• Familiar with optimization techniques (both in file weight and perceived/actual rendering speed), object-oriented design, unit testing & debugging techniques, dynamic content retrieval, state management and internationalization
• Understanding of PHP or other web programming languages

• Experience developing high-trafficked, consumer-centric websites
• Exposure to the Yahoo! User Interface libraries
• Experience with Agile development (especially SCRUM)
• Working knowledge of Unix
• Experience working with source control systems (CVS, Perforce, etc.)
• Familiarity with bug tracking tools (Bugzilla, etc.)

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Operations/Service Engineer

Yahoo! Groups is looking for a self-motivated and experienced operations and software tools development engineer, to work on the production machine setup and help to provide the best possible experience for our users.

• Software operations and tools deployment
• Real-time and asynchronous monitoring of site quality, traffic, and performance
• Configuration of production servers
• Software and database installations
• Backup, recovery, and fixing data corruption

• Experience in Unix working environment (FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris)
• shell scripting skills (tcsh, bash, system tools, ssh, cron)
• Perl, Python, or Tcl
• self-motivation and ability to multitask and prioritize
• BS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

• Good knowledge of computer networking (IP, DNS, VIP)
• PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Apache, and Internet protocols (SMTP, HTTP)
• Site monitoring tools such as NetSaint/Nagios
• C/C++/Python programming experience, web development, software web release
• Good communication skills
• Previous work experience in software site operations and maintenance

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Senior Software Developer

As a Groups engineer, you will be doing one or more of the following:

• Design and implement reliable and massively scalable backend data storage systems.
• Design and implement a scalable email queuing and processing system.
• Build tools to monitor and mitigate abuse.
• Integrate other Yahoo! technologies and features into Groups.

• 3+ years of industry experience
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
• Solid programming experience in C or C++, PHP (Perl, Python also useful)
• Programming experience on Unix platforms (FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris)
  (System programming and network programming experience a plus)
• Experience working with Databases such as Oracle and MySQL
• Good understanding of internet protocols (HTTP, CGI, SMTP, MIME)
• Strong interest in web products for consumers (Blogs, RSS, online communities, etc.)

• Data mining skills

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