Executive Producer, Video Podcasts, 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.

Our expanding video offer plays a key role in guiding our audiences with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity. Every market day, our flagship news shows follow market developments and turn to lead investment managers and strategists, research analysts, executives, and policymakers to keep viewers abreast of what’s driving performance and shaping future opportunities. We are adding to that daily schedule an expanding offer of shorter conversational shows, consumable across our own website and app platforms, off-network on social and TV channels and on all major podcast platforms.

This is an in-office role located in NYC.

Responsibilities:

• We are looking for a leader who, as Executive Producer of video podcasts, will lead and shape our team’s continuing conversation about these conversations and turn those into an appealing slate of creatively presented shows that engage guide, and, sometimes, even inspire audiences. 

• Set and execute a strategic plan for the Yahoo Finance video podcasts to ensure that they appeal to everyone in our audience. Collectively, the goal is to offer an array of diverse sources of perspective and useful insight unmatched by any other financial media. 

• The Executive Producer of Podcasts oversees day-to-day operations, including planning, scripting, setting assignments, staffing, and budgeting. 

• The successful candidate oversees a team of producers, editors, and talent that will pitch, develop, produce, film/record, and edit original video podcast programming. 

• This person is responsible for successfully distributing content across Yahoo Finanance’s numerous distribution channels, including O&O, OTT, Top Podcast distributors, YouTube, and other social platforms.

• The role requires strong communication skills and will involve collaborative work across the Yahoo Finance newsroom (text, social, marketing, product, sales, and more).

• This individual reports directly to the Senior Director of Programming to finalize strategies for content development, production, distribution, new shows, SEO, evergreen, and educational strategies. 

• A podcast roadmap/OKRs/business objectives must be delivered within the first 30 days and reviewed by the Director of Programming and the Head of Video. Business objectives will be aligned with overall Yahoo Finance business strategies.

• This position is directly responsible for driving the growth of podcast/video viewership and distribution, including:

  • Viewership and downloads across multiple podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple, iHeart, and more. 

  • Video streaming viewership on both O&O and OTT distribution channels. 

  • Clip distribution and viewership across social platforms, live shows, and O&O.

• Storytelling is critical to our success. The role will sharpen story angles, strengthen scriptwriting, and polish edits with producers and video editors. 

• This individual will work with the Senior Director of Programming and Sales to help package, shoot, and develop key content attractive to advertisers and new audiences. 

• The EP of Podcasts is responsible for working closely with Yahoo Finance internal and outside talent on the development and execution of their video podcasts. 

• Responsible for identifying Key opportunities for coverage both daily and weekly

  • Identifying trending topics and key areas to win

• Works with the Director of SEO/Uploading to identify and distribute videos across various platforms based on top Trending topics

• Help set the editorial standards for YF original content with solid attention to detail.

• Maintain budgets and track spending in collaboration with the operations team.

• Ensure the team is managed with respect and kindness. Ability to performance manage with grace, while making critical decisions about staffing capabilities and needs to grow.

• Complete additional duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• Podcast and multimedia producers with 7+ years of producing and programming experience within a news media outlet, digital media outlet preferred - located in NYC

• Previous experience in a leadership role is a must

• Passionate about personal finance and investing, with an understanding of markets, business, and investing strategies.

• A strong storyteller with a proven track record of deep reporting and high-quality, original field production with the audience and platform in mind.

• Professional experience writing and reviewing headlines and scripts on deadline.

• Ability to collaborate with newsroom leaders, producers, and reporters across video, text, sales, and more.

• Strong project management skills, building, maintaining, and executing a roadmap

• Incredibly flexible with an eye always toward the changing news environment.

• Refined Knowledge of current SEO practices and techniques

• Hands-on experience with both podcast and video production.

• Proven track record producing and optimizing video and podcasts for digital platforms, including O&O and OTT.

• Ability to work well with others in a highly collaborative environment 

• Excellent time management skills and ability to balance priorities, multiple projects, and tasks with ease

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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.

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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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