Jessica Roland Jessica Roland is Director of Product Management in Yahoo!
Global Product Development. She is an avid supporter of programs to encourage and assist women in their technology careers.
This is the second in a series of profiles on Yahoo! Women in Technology members. WIT women and men come from all areas of the company and all functions. Their roles differ widely, but they have a common commitment to helping women succeed in their careers at Yahoo!. Meet WIT member Fabiola Addamo! WIT: Fabi, [...]
This is the first of a series of profiles on Yahoo! Women in Technology members. WIT women and men come from all areas of the company and all functions. Their roles differ widely, but they have a common commitment to helping women succeed in their careers at Yahoo!. Meet WIT member Irene Lai! Irene is [...]
[ Yahoo! CPG Cloud Services attracted an excellent turnout for an open-house Demos and Drinks evening on March 29, at our Sunnyvale headquarters. Pizza, beer, raffle prizes and great technology were the draw. A full crowd of both Yahoos and external guests were on hand as intro videos rolled, intermixing vignettes of product leaders and [...]
Calling all SF Bay Area Tech Gals! Are you interested in learning about the latest in cloud technology? Elissa Murphy, VP of Yahoo!’s Cloud Platform Group and Executive Sponsor of our Women in Technology program, invites you to join us for a very special evening. Yahoo! Cloud Services is hosting a Demos & Drinks event [...]
On March 20, Yahoo!’s Women in Technology group held its 2012 kickoff. We’re a global group that, with 1100 members, is Yahoo!’s largest Employee Resource Group. We welcome Yahoo! women and men from across all company functions. Building on the successes of 2011, such as our Girl Geek dinners and partnership with the Anita Borg [...]
Yahoo! was hosted by UC Berkeley Women in Business on March 13 for an excellent evening of discussion on professional communications and job-hunting tips. Marisela Peifer and Jessica Roland of team Yahoo! were delighted to face a full room of bright, passionate future business executives, some of whom had already done or are planning internships [...]
On March 20, Yahoo!’s Women in Technology group will be kicking off its WIT 2012 program with an internal meeting of all Yahoo! WIT women. We are very lucky to have as one of our featured speakers Jessica Jensen, VP of our Shine and Yahoo! Health properties. We caught up with Jessica this week to [...]
In celebration of today’s International Women’s Day, we’d like to highlight some excellent IWD content on our Yahoo! Shine network. Here’s the link. Thanks to Yahoo! Contributing Editor Sarah Weir for her very informative and powerful article. And cheers to all the women worldwide who are working, hoping and persevering for a better world for [...]
Yahoo! Women in Tech gals were very pleased to be invited to Applied Materials’ annual Women’s Professional Development Network external event on the evening of March 1st. What a classy soiree! It was held at the beautiful San Jose Museum of Art, and the theme was, naturally, Network and Artwork! In addition to excellent food, [...]
Yahoos were out in force at the Feb 13 TechWomen briefing, held at Microsoft’s Mountain View facility, after a similar session earlier in the day in San Francisco. TechWomen is a program sponsored by the US Department of State, in conjunction with the Institute for International Education and the Anita Borg Institute. Its purpose is [...]
