Senior Data Editor, Yahoo News

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Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. 

A Little About Us

Yahoo News’s Data Services team builds engaging, data-driven products that guide people through everyday life decisions. We help people achieve their goals by using data to contextualize and personalize the news, whether that’s helping you choose what shows to watch, discovering which restaurants are creating buzz on social media, or better understanding how inflation is hitting your grocery bill. We do so by creating helpful and delightful digital experiences, backed by robust data sets.

A Lot About You

You are an experienced data editor who welcomes the challenge of turning datasets into new product experiences. You are comfortable being one of the first members of a newly formed team. You love to collaborate with developers and product designers to understand customer problems and find data-driven solutions to them. You are highly self-sufficient and also thrive when working together with teammates. You get excited about discovering new data sets and finding creative ways to use them. You are curious, driven and know how to find a work-life balance. 

Responsibilities:

• You’ll collaborate with a small team to design, define, build, and deliver new data services for Yahoo News.

• You’ll be responsible for deciding what type of data is needed to create data-backed tools, visualizations and interactions that guide people through everyday life decisions. 

• You will talk to a wide range of 3rd party providers to source and evaluate data sets.

• You’ll clean or transform data where needed, and create unique new data sets by combining different data sources. 

• We believe in learning through rapid prototyping. You’ll have to consider the different data needs during different parts of this process: validating early assumptions vs scaling a product 

• We work with data sources in the form of both static datasets and APIs. You will need to be able to write code to efficiently access and manipulate them.

• You’ll engage with the Yahoo newsroom to enhance data journalism.

• We value and depend on your input! You should actively share your opinions and help shape our technical direction, best practices, product ideas, and team processes. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience working in data journalism, data science, or data engineering.

• Proficiency in R, Python, or other statistical software

• Excellent ability to collect, clean, analyze and transform large datasets, and to work with both static and dynamic data.

• An understanding of methods and options for acquiring and evaluating data sets.

• Familiarity with the design and development of consumer data tools and products, such as rankings, dashboards, interactive guides.

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• The quintessential teammate -- great communicator, adaptable, supportive, hard working, and enjoys a good laugh

• Experience creating data visualizations, and knowledge of data visualization programming languages and libraries is a plus.

• Familiarity with machine learning and natural language processing, and experience in using data to create personalized experiences are a plus.  

Please note: we encourage candidates who may not check all the boxes above to apply.

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 $72,750.00 - $151,250.00/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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