Senior Executive Producer, Market Day, 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.

The Senior Executive Producer of Market Day Coverage will take on a key leadership role at Yahoo Finance to spearhead our most crucial coverage across multiple streaming and podcast platforms, Yahoo Finance’s front page, YouTube, and social channels. You will be shaping the future of Yahoo Finance video content, driving business impact, and leading creative teams to deliver high-impact stories.

We’re looking for someone with deep expertise in investing and business, backed by a robust Rolodex of industry contacts, who can translate their strategic vision into dynamic, engaging segments and live shows. You'll need to seamlessly convey your ideas to producers, driving content that informs and captivates our audience across platforms. This role is critical to building our Market Day content — both streaming and VOD — using SEO, data, and distribution expertise to keep Yahoo Finance ahead in the fast-paced world of financial news.

About This Role:

Reporting directly to the Head of Video, you will be responsible for setting the standards of excellence for video programming and live coverage. You’ll lead a team of talented editors and producers, collaborate with senior directors, and plan execution strategies that resonate with diverse audiences across platforms. This role is your opportunity to lead our most crucial video coverage initiatives, pushing boundaries and driving growth for Yahoo Finance's video presence across multiple channels. Be at the forefront of transforming the way business news is delivered!

What You’ll Do:

• Lead a creative team to pitch, produce, and edit original and re-edited content for various channels, focusing on top trending topics that matter to our audience.

• The right candidate will manage a team 30, including Executive Producers, Senior Producers, Bookers, on-air anchors, and reporters. You will cross-collaborate across the video ecosystem. Your success depends on your ability to communicate your ideas.

• Partner with the Senior Director of Programming to drive an SEO-first strategy that maximizes reach and engagement across Yahoo Finance platforms.

• Innovate content creation processes to set new standards for producing, distributing, and consuming financial news.

• Build repeatable, scalable segments that freshen our live day programming and VOD offerings.

• Manage the day-to-day budget and operations of the project

• Develop and manage timelines

• Deep cross-collaboration and planning with studio, text, podcasts, marketing, data, and sales teams.

• This person looks beyond daily tasks, sees the big picture, and applies company strategies with a 360° view of projects, making impactful recommendations when needed.

What You’ll Bring:

• A passion for financial markets, business trends, and digital content creation.

• Exceptional leadership skills to inspire a team and deliver high-quality content under tight deadlines.

• Strong understanding of SEO, social platforms, and audience engagement strategies.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, identifying and acting on trends to lead the industry in coverage.

Qualifications:

• Requirement of working onsite in our NYC office

• We are looking for Executive producers with 15+ years of leadership, producing, and programming experience within a major news media outlet, digital media outlet preferred

• Previous experience in a leadership role is a must

• Refined Knowledge of current SEO practices and techniques

• Hands-on experience with CMS and digital publishing tools

• Proven track record producing and optimizing video 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 $110,625.00 - $230,625.00/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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