USZA.30 - Search Editor II - IC2 at Yahoo

Location : Sunnyvale, CA
Description : The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.

In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you.

How Big Can You Think?

The successful candidate will contribute to Yahoo's results quality measurement and anti-spam efforts by:

• Participating in relevance tests designed to measure data quality across Yahoo's web search product line.
• Building training sets to support the development of automated classifiers.
• Analyzing search user session data to identify relationships between queries, classify query transitions, and draw inferences about user satisfaction from click behaviors and query reformulation chains.
• Contributing to the development of web spam detection methods.
• Performing other web search data QA tasks as assigned.

Experience classifying data into taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, or some other formal classification scheme is strongly desired. Basic knowledge of the structure and functionality of web search and directory services is required, as is an understanding of web search strategies and techniques. Familiarity with HTML, XML, or other SGML markup languages is strongly preferred. Fluency in at least one language other than English is preferred. Some knowledge of at least one scripting language is desirable, as is familiarity with mySQL databases.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Science, Linguistics, or related field. Advanced degree desirable.
• Sufficient knowledge of Unix and/or Linux to be able to invoke various spam detection scripts from a command line.
• Experience classifying large volumes of data into complex classification schemes.
• Ability to assess the authoritativeness, topical pertinence, and overall quality of web pages.
• Demonstrated written and oral communication skills.

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VP of Business Development, Global Partners at Yahoo

Location Sunnyvale, CA
Description : Vice President, Business Development for Global Partner Solutions


Yahoo! was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It began as a hobby and has evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, conduct transactions and access, share, and create information.

Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge. To ensure this, Yahoo! offers a broad and deep array of products and services to create unique and differentiated user experiences and consumer insights by leveraging connections, data, and user participation.

Yahoo! is a leading Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices around the globe and user participation.

The Global Partner Solutions (GPS) group will be responsible for segmenting the business needs of our partners into actionable groups, understanding the needs of these segments and our ability to meet these needs, developing holistic business strategies to delight and surprise these segments, and executing on these strategies.

This approach will help us achieve faster, smarter decision-making and improved execution in support of better serving our customers. For example, we will be able to much more quickly identify and secure the ad inventory that best meets our advertisers’ objectives and partner with advertisers that best meet our publishing partners’ objectives as well as provide the most compelling experience to the vast audiences we reach.


Responsibilities

As the Vice President of Business Development within the Global Partner Solutions (GPS) group, you will focus on the overall goal of establishing new strategic partners, including evaluation, strategy development and execution planning. In addition, expanding the depth and value of existing partnerships. To deliver these services, you will interact externally with executive level management to initiate, structure, negotiate, and manage long term partnerships deemed to be strategically important to Yahoo!. You will negotiate terms to govern and you must possess a high degree of comfort interfacing with all levels within a company, and do so with a proven track record.

You will be responsible for closing significant relationships, forging the partnerships network growth, creating new partnerships, all focused on creating future strategic value. Ultimately, driving revenue to Yahoo. Our ideal candidate will have extensive business development and sales experience, as well as operational experience. Strong management background with a proven track record at hiring, motivating and leading senior level employees, is required.

A background in the internet and media space is required, along with a solid understanding of selling next generation solutions and bundled services and products. A deep understanding of Yahoo's Services needs and demands, and the ability to function at rapid pace are required.

•Experienced/tenured business development track record
•Strong online experience
•Complex deal structuring, solution sales and development - “solution selling”.
•Broad understanding of online world (commercial models, product/capability and operational dependencies)
•Maturity
•Ability to navigate across complex organization
•Ability to establish credibility quickly
•Willingness to take action, make decisions and lead
•Thoughtful
•Analytic
•Ability to craft and pitch a proposition


Requirements

•A BS/BA is required, MBA or equivalent degree preferred
•Minimum of 8 years of business development, sales or equivalent experience is required
•Excellent leadership, prioritization, communication, analytic and quantitive skills
•High degree of comfort overseeing major projects, leading teams, and working with senior executives are also necessary.


Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com

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