Paranoids Technical Program Manager/ Business Analyst

About Yahoo

Yahoo is a values-led company committed to building brands people love. We reach over one billion people around the world with a dynamic house of 50+ media and technology brands. A global leader in digital and mobile, Yahoo is shaping the future of media.

Yahoo is focused on making users' daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses.

A Little About Us

When you impact millions of people every day, you become a large target for adversaries in all layers of the stack. Our job is to keep our users safe and make Yahoo one of the safest places on the Internet. We are the information security team at Yahoo. People call us “The Paranoids.”

The Role

The PMO is part of the Paranoids Strategy and Business Operations pillar. It runs the programs and the operational backbone of our security organization.

As our Technical Program Manager & Business Analyst, you will own day-to-day delivery of projects and workstreams within larger PMO programs, and handle the business analysis that keeps budgets, vendors, and reporting accurate. You will work closely with senior PMO members, a geographically distributed team of security engineers and software developers, and partners in Finance, Procurement, HR, Legal, and other engineering teams. This is a role where you can grow quickly by taking on more program ownership over time.

What You'll Do

Program Management:

• Drive projects and workstreams from kickoff through delivery, including running postmortems and capturing lessons learned.

• Manage a few projects at a time, from small enhancements to existing tools to parts of larger application builds.

• Build and maintain project plans and timelines with clear milestones, owners, and next steps.

• Track dependencies on other projects and external teams, and follow up to keep work from slipping.

• Raise risks and issues early, escalate to PMO leads when needed, and help put mitigation plans in place.

• Keep project scope in check and flag changes to priorities or timelines.

• Prepare status reports on scope, timeline, budget, and milestones, and contribute to presentations for PMO and Paranoids leadership.

• Produce clear written material across the project lifecycle: meeting notes and action items, end-user test cases, announcements, and training materials.

Business Operations & Analysis:

• Help maintain, update, and report on Paranoids budgets, tracking purchase orders, invoices, and budget line items against forecasts and actuals.

• Prepare recurring reporting, including financial packages, and operational and security metrics.

• Analyze data from multiple sources and summarize findings for the team and leadership.

• Translate business needs into requirements engineers can build against.

• Document, maintain, and improve end-to-end team processes and workflows, and keep the team's document repository current.

• Contribute to Strategy and Business Operations pillar maintenance and improvement projects.

What You Bring

Required:

• 3+ years of experience in project or program management, business operations, business analysis, or a related role, ideally in a technology organization.

• Familiarity with project management methodologies such as Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall.

• Working understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

• Experience juggling multiple projects or priorities at once in a fast-paced environment while keeping a strong eye for detail.

• Experience supporting budgets or financial tracking, such as forecasts, actuals, purchase orders, or invoices.

• Exposure to vendor management or procurement processes.

• Comfort pulling data from different sources into clear metrics, reports, and spreadsheets.

• Experience documenting and improving business processes.

• Comfortable working with remote and geographically distributed teams.

• Strong written and verbal communication, including explaining technical topics to non-technical partners.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

• PMP, CAPM, or Agile certification (such as CSM), or progress toward one.

• Experience managing projects in the analytics, business intelligence, or financial planning space.

• Experience with Linear, Looker, Oracle, or Google Workspace.

• Experience collecting, analyzing, and communicating security or IT metrics.

• Familiarity with the information security landscape and emerging technologies.

How you work:

• You're a problem solver who stays steady through ambiguity and change.

• You build good working relationships across teams and with vendors.

• You're organized, detail-minded, and follow through on what you commit to.

• You communicate early and often so there are no surprises, and you're eager to learn and take on more.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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