Product Manager for an AI Assistant for Advertising Sales Managers

We are creating an AI assistant — a strategic copilot for Advertising sales managers. Our goal is to free up the manager's time for high-value tasks, eliminating routine work and complex data analysis. The product provides ready-made recommendations in plain language, for example: "why the advertising strategy isn't working" and "what to offer the client."

We are looking for a product manager who, within the first year, will take the product from an MVP with 100 pilot users to a product that thousands of Yandex employees can't work without. You will be responsible for developing the content part of the AI assistant and integrating it into the daily processes of sales teams.

What tasks await you

Strategy, Metrics, and Market Analysis You will shape the product vision and roadmap, define key success metrics together with the team, and be responsible for their growth. Additionally, you will need to conduct market analysis to identify new opportunities.

Problem Research and Hypothesis Formulation You will need to identify the deep-seated problems of sales managers through interviews and data analysis. You will also formulate problem statements and transform them into testable product hypotheses.

Backlog Management, Prioritization, and Feature Launch You will manage the product backlog, justify priorities for the team and stakeholders. You will participate in decomposing ideas into valuable increments, as well as ensure successful feature launches: from planning with the team to go-to-market and results analysis.

Product Implementation and Adoption Work You will actively work with pilot groups: conducting demos, collecting feedback, and providing support. In addition, you will implement the assistant into the workflows and regulations of sales departments, creating libraries of best practices.

Data-Driven Iterative Development You will need to analyze usage data (logs, metrics, feedback) after launches, make decisions about developing, refining, or sunsetting features based on data, and conduct retrospectives with the team.

More about creating products at Yandex — in the channel Yandex for Products

We expect you to

• Have full-cycle product management experience: from problem research and hypotheses to launch, metric analysis, and iterations
• Master product manager tools (conducting customer interviews, A/B testing, working with metrics and funnels, prioritization)
• Possess technical literacy: understand the basics of SaaS architecture, API, and know key AI concepts (LLM, RAG, fine-tuning)
• Understand the digital advertising ecosystem and sales processes (channels, platforms, metrics (CPO, LTV), deal cycle)
• Possess strategic thinking: able to see the long-term perspective, analyze the market, and balance innovation with solving pressing problems
• Communicate and influence masterfully: capable of explaining complex concepts simply to different audiences (managers, developers, leadership) and persuading without direct authority
• Make decisions under uncertainty: separate requests from needs, willing to experiment and learn from failures
• Be proactive and curious: continuously learn in the fields of AI and ad-tech, proactively seek out problems and solutions
• Be skilled at working with data: can independently gather most of the data (SQL) for analysis
• Have experience writing clear product documents (vision, user stories) for business and the team