Senior Director, E-Commerce Business Lead in undefined at Yahoo Inc

Date Posted: 5/22/2024

Job Snapshot

  • Employee Type:
    Full-Time
  • Job Type:
  • Experience:
    Not Specified
  • Date Posted:
    5/22/2024

Job Description

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that reaches hundreds of millions of people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

We are seeking an experienced sales leader to help drive growth for Yahoo Taiwan’s E-Commerce business. This role requires a highly resourceful individual with strong business judgment, analytical skills, as well as high emotional intelligence and self-motivation. The ideal candidate is prepared to join an exceptional, fast-paced team whose mission is to accelerate business results by providing hands-on strategic and tactical support for needle-moving initiatives across the company. This is a challenging, high-impact role that will identify and implement new initiatives at expanding vendors and users base while simultaneously driving revenue growth. This role requires e-commerce expertise, an in-depth understanding of B2C business models and industries from different countries, and strong relationships with retail brands. The candidate will have a visible profile within the Taiwan ecommerce space offering industry thought leadership.



Responsibilities

  • Lead a large sales team to provide an unparalleled platform/service for our users as well as drive excellent results for revenue achievements. 

  • Plan and align business strategy with senior leadership, key partners, and stakeholders to deliver outstanding business results.

  • Partner with cross-functional teams including marketing, product, design and engineering to create top of class products and services that can offer a vastly enhanced shopping experience.

  • Coordinate resources from cross-functional teams, real-time grasp of competing products dynamic and industry situation, through data analysis, user feedback, develop optimization programs for B2C and B2B2C platform/product.

  • Define dashboards and statistics to continue evaluating product health metrics (such as CTR, Conversion, DAU, Path-to-Purchase) and revenue performance.

  • Uplift conversion rate from visitor to buyer, grow daily active users on mobile app, manage front-end product lifecycle planning and design initiatives to effectively support objective achievement.

  • Be a thought leader within the ecommerce industry to identify partnerships and strategic development for growth



Minimum Qualifications

  • 10 years of solid experience in related fields in an e-commerce/internet environment including category management, product operation, strategic planning, or marketing.

  • High analytical competencies and data-oriented thinker

  • Strong interpersonal skill with great sense in driving sales results and working closely with product management and engineers.

  • Solid communication skill and problem-solving ability to coordinate resources and provide actionable solutions.

  • Strong sense of ecommerce industry trends and customer needs with excellent analytical capability. Experience in developing and understanding customers, competitors and trends.

  • A quick learner, a self-starter, able to work independently, and willing to handle the pressures of an increasing level of responsibility.

  • BA/BS Degree or above in relevant majors.

  • Proficiency in Mandarin(Chinese) is essential.

  • By applying to this position, you are required to locate in Taiwan.



Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in B2C business, mobile product design and operation preferred.

  • E-Commerce experience in international markets will be a plus.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (

) or call
408-336-1409
. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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