Adam Hyder, Yahoo’s Senior Director of Engineering for its Advertising Management Platform (AMP), has joined the flood of recent departures from the search giant in hopes of greener pastures. Hyder has joined Jobvite, an online recruiting service, as the company’s CTO.
Last month, Jobvite hired Yahoo HotJobs boss Dan Finnigan as its CEO. It’s likely that Finnigan had something to do with Hyder’s choice of relocation - the two worked together at HotJobs before Hyder moved to AMP.
The loss to Yahoo’s AMP platform is significant - the service was only announced in April, and has yet to launch (it is supposed to launch some time this summer). AMP is supposed to “help marketers buy across search, display, local, mobile, and video inventory - all from a single, integrated interface.” During the Yahoo conference call last June, the company said that AMP would be available within a week. Six weeks later, the platform’s homepage still displays a teaser trailer. We haven’t heard what the status of the AMP platform is at this point, but it’s never a good sign when your Director of Engineering jumps ship weeks (or less) before release.
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i like adam, but the term “exec” continues to get abused on TC. michael, from now on i think you want to just go with “employee”.
He is a true leader who alwasy leads from the front. I have worked with Adam for many years at Yahoo.
He was the most inspiring leader Yahoo ever had. He made impossible possible by focussing on positives. He motivated the AMP! team to acheive impossible tasks. I remember one instance in which he stayed with the team for 4 straight days in LA and acheived 5 weeks task in one week during extreme crunch time. All through positive attitude, quants and motivation. Now that is called leadership.
We will miss you Adam.
Good luck!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMenB9Ywh2Q
Is that his real name? He looks exactly like a person who went by the name of ‘Abbas Syed’ who was officially listed as the founder/cto/presidnt of a startup called Onebuild in early 2001-02. And a quck look at Linkedin shows ‘Adam Hyder’ claims to be that exact person.
Maybe you guys can do a little digging here because somehting smells fishy…
the guy changed his name
…why did he do that?
Adam was really good..he was one of the guys who genuinely made us feel that he cared!
We’ll miss him..all the best Adam!
Go Jesper Go!
who cares, posts about a third tier, commodity application that does not solve the hiring problem is not news, why do we care about some random Dir of engineering joining some nobody company?
Jobvite= not news worthy
Loss for Yahoo. Leaders remaining at AMP are manipulative empire builders or incompetent suck up types. I joined some months ago and the mood within engineers is worse than the daily depressing stock price. CTO publicly encouraged engineers to start their week at 1am on monday, no matter if you slept off rest of the week. Make sure you show up in the war room to tell everyone you bleed purple. My recruiter and hiring manager oversold me on my position. I have worked on three different things, none of them what I was told. Sorry that I took the bait.