Sr Copy and Production Editor, Yahoo Finance

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.

A Little About Us: 

Yahoo Finance’s personal finance teams produce reference content and daily news coverage that assure Yahoo Finance offers the broadest, most reliable, and useful information about developments that affect its audiences' most important financial decisions and opportunities. We're looking for enthusiastic, empathetic teammates who relish the challenge of helping people understand and navigate the uncertain financial world we live in.  
 

About You: 

Yahoo Finance is seeking an experienced, skilled copy and production editor to ensure the quality and integrity of our robust and expanding personal finance coverage. To succeed you’ll need to know your way around the world of personal finance and have the highest quality standards. You should be comfortable handling all aspects of content production and management across multiple channels including web pages, newsletters, and social media. A keen interest in tracking traffic metrics and a strong understanding of SEO is essential. We’re looking for a collaborative, detail-oriented copy editor who brings a learning mindset and a love of the pursuit of excellence to their job every day. We’re here to produce content and tools, and cover the news to give people the confidence they need to make smart financial decisions. 

If you’re excited by the idea of using your editing skills and knowledge of personal finance to keep people informed and help them meet their financial challenges with confidence while building a new team inside a thriving and growing enterprise, you’ll fit right in at Yahoo Finance.

Responsibilities: 

• Copy edit, format, and proofread personal finance news stories and evergreen content articles

• Fact-check stories and articles

• Ensure articles and news stories are optimized for search 

• Oversee and manage production and publication of personal finance stories and other content

• Wage a relentless war against jargon and language that obfuscates

• Develop and expand Yahoo Finance’s style guide

• Collaborate with SEO, product, and business teams to execute content strategy 

Qualifications: 

• Five or more years as a copy editor in personal finance journalism or content marketing

• Experience editing news and content related to banking, insurance, loans, investing, and other personal finance topics

• Demonstrated mastery of grammar and style as well as flexibility 

• A no-compromises approach to quality, sourcing, and factual accuracy 

• A willingness to work collaboratively with writers and other editors

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The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $90,750.00 - $188,750.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

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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