Front Page Editor

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

Yahoo Finance is the largest business and financial news site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights, and original editorial content.

As a Front Page Editor at Yahoo Finance, you will play a critical role in curating and editing content for the front page of one of the world's leading financial news platforms. Your primary responsibility will be to drive engagement and ensure the delivery of timely, accurate, and compelling news stories to our audience. This position requires a deep understanding of the financial markets, excellent editorial judgment, and strong communication skills. You will work closely with a talented team of editors, writers, and producers to deliver high-quality content that informs and educates our millions of readers.

Responsibilities:

• Run finance.yahoo.com from 8 p.m. ET to 3 a.m. ET (subject to change)

• Ensure proper handoffs with the West Coast and UK front page editors

• Monitor news flow, curate and edit stories to ensure Yahoo Finance’s home page and related pages reflect the best version of Yahoo Finance at any given moment

• Edit stories as needed

• Write stories as needed

• Drive engagement and ensure the delivery of timely, accurate, and compelling news stories to our audience

• Support various other aspects of Yahoo Finance editorial, including: data, distribution, push alerts, social publishing, and general quality control

• Exercise strong financial news judgment across a variety of topics

• Stay up to date with the latest financial news and market trends to help ensure Yahoo Finance maintains its position as the leading financial news source

Required Qualifications:

• At least 5 years experience working in an editorial function at a media organization

• Demonstrates the ability to work independently with minimal supervision

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, continuing the Yahoo Finance team’s day of success and helping to position it for more success the following day

• Enthusiasm for financial news, learning about new topics, and distribution of content

• Strong framing and headline-writing skills

• Proficiency in SEO best practices and the ability to optimize content for search engine visibility and user engagement

• Strong copy-editing skills and command of grammar and style

• Strong news judgment for making real-time decisions

• Ability to multitask and juggle multiple priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• B.A. preferred or equivalent job experience

• Front page editing experience

• Knowledge of SEO best practices

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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