Michael Albers

Product ownership, direction, execution, management and responsibility for a new on-demand workforce platform (LiveWork), delivering clients a quality workforce and a worker community opportunity to work. Responsible for end-to-end execution and management across the Product , design, community management, content production, QA, operations, vendor/partner coordination and assisting with sales/client management. Including product vision, direction, roadmap , feature prioritization and overall execution.

Responsible for user facing content experience, strategy, approach, technology and definition to surface and integrate appropriate content within the Search experience. Partner and publisher responsibility for Yahoo! open search platform (Search Monkey) product execution, integration and promotion to enhance the user experience. Responsibility for Multi Media (Image, Audio & Video) search experience, product, roadmap and strategy.

Product ownership, strategy & execution responsibility for an innovative community collaboration product & platform focused on high quality user generated content leveraging Yahoo!'s existing communities. Filed a patent (pending) on the community collaboration platform. Product responsibility for community search product integration & innovation within the search team, leveraging Yahoo!’s community search products (such as Del.icio.us & Yahoo! Answers) to enrich the web search user experience.

Directly responsible for international search product management, operations, strategy and coordination across web search, social search, social media and distribution products teams. Management responsibility for international product managers and indirect regional management across Asia, Europe and Emerging Markets. Direct responsibility for funding of a multi-million budget, prioritization, strategy & planning to ensure execution, support and delivery of products across International markets.