Jeremy Zawodny, a Yahoo! employee blogger, used to work on Yahoo Finance for about three years and in the Platform Engineering group to do MySQL stuff. He already worked for the Search Team where he returns now.

I'm going back to the Search Team but in a very different role this time. Instead of hacking away on software bits, I'm going to be working to:

** make sure our products kick the necessary amount of ass
** better communicate what we're thinking about and building
** incorporate outside feedback and ideas into what we're doing
** recruit more smart people
** And other stuff as it comes up, I'm sure.

I've been a Yahoo nearly five years now and this will be my fourth role. It has been in the works for a few months now. The first evidence of that was the launch of the Yahoo Search blog and then our attendance at and sponsorship of Gnomedex 4 recently.