Summary
For 20 years, Yelp has been synonymous with helping consumers discover and connect with great local businesses - from restaurants and nail salons to movers and plumbers. With unmatched local business information, photos, and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform to discover, connect and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment, or purchase.
Currently, Yelp experiences 4 billion sessions and 100 million monthly active users in the US alone and has continued to grow organically. Yelp sees an opportunity for exponential growth by doubling down on efforts to address all local needs beyond finding restaurants with potential for expansion in untapped markets and international areas, we expect transformational growth.
As the Director of Product, you will lead a high-performing product team to implement Yelp's growth strategy, striving to become the leading growth team in the industry. Leveraging your strong leadership and experience, you lead the vision/goal, own the overall roadmap, introduce new strategies, and optimize existing growth mechanisms and levers. You will partner with an industry leading technical platform & eng team who have great depth and knowledge to determine points of leverage and efficiency.
The culture at Yelp is a unique blend of a dynamic startup environment with the stability and resources of a successful public company. You will have full ownership of your focus area and be able to make fast decisions in a highly collaborative setting.
This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular state within the US. We welcome applicants from throughout the US. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
What you'll do:
- Foster and build a fun, diverse, and inclusive culture that reflects Yelp’s values.
- Lead Yelp’s growth initiatives, including developing and refining strategies and testing approaches.
- Create the vision and roadmap for growth features.
- Manage, mentor, and recruit a top-tier growth product team.
- Develop products that drive growth without compromising the user experience.
- Collaborate with tech and product management teams to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.
- Utilize data to guide decisions on roadmap priorities and growth experiments.
What it takes to succeed:
- Extensive experience in Retention, and App Growth Strategies.
- Expertise building 0-1 features that enhance consumer distribution, and engagement
- Strong product intuition, business insights and growth experience, with over 5 years in team leadership roles.
- Proven track record in building and scaling teams of product managers including Group Product Manager level product leaders.
- Experience in a leading consumer or marketplace business with significant user growth.
- Demonstrated ability to manage the full product development lifecycle.
- Experience fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable team culture.
- Passionate about Yelp’s mission.
- A Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent work experience is required.
What you'll get:
- Compensation range is $188,000-335,000 annually. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
- This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across the US.
- You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!