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Start a Five-Star Career at Yelp

Hey you, meet Yelp. 🗓️ You’re invited to check out our networking event with Yelp’s technology sector, the engineering & data leaders behind Yelp. 🎙️ Hear the honest take on Yelp’s work culture, robust benefits, upcoming projects, and more—all from the perspective of their tech leaders. 📈 Plus, we scored the panel’s…

Hosted by Yelp In partnership with PowerToFly
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About this event

Hey you, meet Yelp.

🗓️ You’re invited to check out our networking event with Yelp’s technology sector, the engineering & data leaders behind Yelp.

🎙️ Hear the honest take on Yelp’s work culture, robust benefits, upcoming projects, and more—all from the perspective of their tech leaders.

📈 Plus, we scored the panel’s best career advice and tips for elevating your tech career.

Agenda:
  • 11:30 AM ET / 4:30 PM GMT - PowerToFly Kickoff
  • 11:35 AM ET / 4:35 PM GMT - Welcome & Keynote Address from Ana Alvarado-Virag, Engineering Manager
  • 11:45 AM ET / 4:45 PM GMT - Panel Discussion & Audience Q+A featuring:
  • 12:25 PM ET / 5:25 PM GMT - Closing Remarks from PowerToFly
  • 12:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM GMT - Breakout Sessions
  • 1:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM GMT - Event Concludes

About Yelp: Yelp connects people with great local businesses. With unmatched local business information, photos and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform for consumers to discover, connect and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment or purchase. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in 2004.

About PowerToFly: PowerToFly is a women-run platform that works with companies to identify skilled professionals for networking and recruiting opportunities. Over the past few years, we’ve produced 1,000+ events across the world with brands like Facebook, Spotify, Microsoft, and Deloitte, resulting in countless hires.

About PowerToFly’s Events: All RSVP’d attendees are welcome, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or age. If you require assistance to fully participate in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.

→ PowerToFly cannot admit outside recruiters to this event. Please email hi@powertofly.com if you have any questions about this policy.


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Meet the speakers

Ana Alvarado-Virag

Ana Alvarado-Virag

Engineering Manager

Ana joined Yelp as Engineering Manager in January 2021. Previously, Ana held various engineering positions at Booking.com and made stops at Predictvia and Oracle.

Dona Abou-Younes

Dona Abou-Younes

Engineering Manager

Dona Abou-Younes is an engineer manager on the Ad Campaign team, a team within the Marterking Engineering group. The team provides a backend solution to create & customize campaigns for on-Yelp advertisers' needs. Dona’s career started in 2000 as a software engineer in the telecom industry, then moved to different R&D roles and industries, and landed in 2021 with Yelp. Her passion is to lead & coach people, and her approach when building teams is setting a safe environment and a shared leadership model

Rob Fernandez

Rob Fernandez

Engineering Manager

Rob Fernandez is an engineering manager on the Compute Infrastructure Platform Experience team where he supports a team that provides the underlying platform and infrastructure to Yelp's developers so that they can focus on delivering value to users. Rob grew up in Montreal and spent the last 20 years working in the telecom industry, starting out as a systems integrator, growing into a solution architect, and finally making the jump into management and leadership. Rob is passionate about building teams that selflessly support one another and are empowered to succeed.

About the company

Yelp

Yelp connects people with great local businesses. With unmatched local business information, photos and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform for consumers to discover, connect and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment or purchase. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in 2004.

Who We Are

We’re passionate about connecting people with great local businesses. At Yelp, we’re bringing together world-class talent from different experiences, disciplines, and areas of study to produce a world-class product. We provide just the place for fostering diverse communities that make a large impact.

We are one dynamic company with many unique teams. Across our various departments, whether sales, engineering, or marketing, our employees comprise an eager community working in service of our mission and company goals.

Yelp employees live, work and play in five-star cities throughout the United States and Europe.

Our Belief in Diversity

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and that’s just a few. We’re committed to increasing diversity and transparency both here at Yelp and in Silicon Valley.

Our Belief in Inclusiveness

At Yelp, inclusiveness is just as important as diversity. We cultivate a sense of belonging through company supported employee resource and affinity groups: Awesome Women in Engineering, :, DiverseBurst, Health & Wellness, OUTburst, VetConnect, Women at Yelp, Yelp Parents, YelpCares and many more!

Our Values

Our values are what drive us forward. They provide the framework for making decisions like who we hire, who we promote, and how we get things done. If it’s unauthentic and boring you can bet it’s not happening at Yelp.

  1. Be Unboring
  2. Be Tenacious
  3. Play Well With Others
  4. Be Authentic
  5. Protect Your Source
Live your best life with five-star benefits

We know that keeping you healthy and wise translates to an overall better work experience. Whether it's world-class health benefits, support for your family, or a wellness reimbursement, we believe happy employees are successful employees.

  1. Health benefits: Our employees are offered various coverage options for medical, dental, and vision plans.
  2. Employee stock purchase plan: Become a Yelp shareholder by purchasing stock at a discount.
  3. Paid time off programs: Take time to rest, recharge, and recover with paid wellness time, vacation, holidays, and one floating holiday per year.
  4. Mental health support and services via Talkspace: Get easy access to mental health support and services via Talkspace, an online therapy and psychiatry service.
  5. Adoption, daycare, and baby bonding leave: Start or grow your family with confidence. From adoption assistance to backup daycare and paid time off for new parents, you’ll have support for your family.
  6. Transgender benefits: Live life authentically with a comprehensive list of benefits for transgender and non-binary individuals.
  7. Work from home reimbursement: Make your work from home experience more comfortable and productive with a monthly reimbursement.
  8. Wellness reimbursement: Whether it’s fitness clothes, a massage, or a gym membership, get reimbursed every month to keep up your self-care habits.
  9. Corporate discounts: Save some cash with corporate perks and discounts at local and national stores, cafes, fitness centers, and more.

Ready to start living your five-star career at Yelp? Apply today!

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