Editor, Content Engagement Job at Yahoo Holdings Inc. in New York

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 is the world's premier financial website, serving as an essential guide to money, markets, and investing for millions of daily active users. We are dedicated to democratizing financial intelligence by delivering real-time stock market data, breaking business news, personal finance tools, and high-impact original journalism. Our team is fast-paced, collaborative, and forward-looking-continually experimenting with new technologies to package and deliver trusted information that helps our audience navigate their financial lives.

About the Role

Yahoo Finance is looking for an Editor, Content Engagement to help shape the daily presentation, packaging, and performance of Yahoo Finance journalism across desktop, mobile web, and app surfaces. This role owns real-time programming decisions, optimizes how stories appear across platforms, and drafts high-impact alerts and headlines that help audiences quickly understand why a story matters to their money.

The ideal candidate possesses strong news judgment, sharp presentation instincts (visuals, headlines, etc.), and a deep interest in markets, business, and personal finance. You operate exceptionally well in evolving, AI-augmented digital environments, viewing advanced technology as a tool to increase your creative scale, throughput, and impact without compromising on accuracy or trust.

This position requires a consistent weekend schedule, meaning standard days off will be on weekdays.

What You'll Do
Program Yahoo Finance desktop, mobile web, and app experiences with a focus on breaking news, markets coverage, analysis, personal finance, and major tentpole moments.
Utilize approved generative AI tools (such as Google Gemini) to brainstorm, draft, and iterate on high-performing headlines and mobile push alert variations at scale, optimizing for audience CTR and readability.
Optimize story placement, headlines, thumbnails, framing, and recirculation to improve engagement and keep Yahoo Finance feeling essential throughout the day.
Leverage approved AI-assisted visual editing and asset-generation tools (such as Adobe Firefly) to rapidly iterate on story thumbnails and visual assets, adapting imagery in real time to match audience signals.
Write, edit, and send mobile alerts that are timely, accurate, and useful, translating complex financial news into clear, urgent language for broad audiences.
Use analytics platforms (e.g., Chartbeat, Google Trends) to inform every programming decision across story placement, headline framing, recirculation, and alert strategy, acting as an IC3-level resource by proactively sharing performance insights across the newsroom.
Contribute to a fast, test-and-learn culture where strong editorial judgment is paired with performance data, AI-augmented workflows, and systematic experimentation.
Partner closely with editors, reporters, video, social, product, and analytics teams to align programming decisions with the biggest editorial priorities and audience opportunities.
Work closely with the video teams to identify compelling content and storylines and help surface, package, and distribute them across Yahoo Finance platforms.
Evaluate and program a high volume of syndicated content from a wide range of providers, applying editorial judgment to select stories that fit Yahoo Finance's voice and audience priorities.

Qualifications
3+ years of experience working as an editor at a media organization, with experience in digital media, newsroom programming, audience development, or homepage editing.
Strong editorial judgment and experience making real-time framing decisions in a high-velocity news environment.
Comfort using Chartbeat and other real-time analytics tools to monitor performance.
Professional experience with headline writing, content curation, copy editing, SEO, Google Trends, and analytics platforms.
A genuine interest in following finance news closely and understanding how major stories affect everyday users as well as active investors.
A sharp instinct for packaging journalism in ways that drive clicks, engagement, and loyalty without sacrificing clarity or trust.
Demonstrated experience utilizing generative AI applications (e.g., Google Gemini, ChatGPT) for structured prompt engineering, copy refinement, and creative brainstorming.
Strong competency in human-in-the-loop editorial governance, showcasing the critical thinking required to validate, fact-check, and refine AI-generated text outputs to ensure they align with brand style and voice guidelines.
An AI-forward mindset with an active interest in identifying repetitive, manual workflow tasks and designing automated or AI-assisted alternatives to increase editorial speed.
Strong collaboration skills and a calm, solutions-oriented approach during big news moments.

Preferred Qualifications
Background in financial journalism, personal finance, investing, or business news.
Comprehensive understanding of editorial best practices and style guides.
Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience.

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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.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don't require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You'll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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In Summary: Yahoo Finance is looking for an Editor, Content Engagement to help shape the daily presentation, packaging, and performance of Yahoo Finance journalism . This role owns real-time programming decisions, optimizes how stories appear across platforms, and drafts high-impact alerts and headlines that help audiences quickly understand why a story matters to their money . The ideal candidate possesses strong news judgment, sharp presentation instincts (visuals, headlines, etc.), and a deep interest in markets, business, and personal finance .

En Español: Yahoo Finance es el destino financiero número uno del mundo, que empodera a los inversores con noticias, información y herramientas para tomar decisiones financieras con confianza. Confiable por más de 150 millones de visitantes en todo el mundo cada mes, representando más de $ 20 billones de dólares en activos invertibles, Yahoo Finance ofrece datos de mercado en tiempo real de alta calidad a través de plataformas de escritorio, móviles e invierto. Con novedades de última hora desde miles de fuentes, perspectivas editoriales originales, calificaciones y investigaciones objetivas de analistas, gráficos analíticos y instrumentos técnicos, alertas personalizadas para dispositivos celulares y mucho más, Yahoo Finanzas equipa a los inversionistas con conocimientos e ideas para lograr una mayor libertad financiera y prosperidad. A Little About Us Este papel posee decisiones de programación en tiempo real, optimiza cómo aparecen las historias a través de plataformas y elabora alertas y titulares de alto impacto que ayudan a la audiencia a entender rápidamente por qué una historia importa para su dinero. Usted opera excepcionalmente bien en entornos digitales evolutivos y aumentados por IA, utilizando herramientas de AI generativas aprobadas (como Google Gemini) como una herramienta avanzada para aumentar su escala creativa, rendimiento e impacto sin comprometer la precisión o confianza. Esta posición requiere un calendario consistente del fin de semana, lo que significa que los días libres estándar serán durante las jornadas laborales. Lo que harás Programa Yahoo Finance se alineará con experiencias de escritorio, web móvil y aplicación con un enfoque en noticias breaking, cobertura de mercados, análisis, finanzas personales y grandes momentos tenpoles. Utilice herramientos de inteligencia artificial creativos aprobados (tales como Google Geminis) para impulsar, redactar e evaluar titulares de alto desempeño y variaciones de alertas móviles a nivel de imagen, optimizando el CTR de audiencia y rehistorización. Optimice la colocación útil de títulos de alertación, líneas de alarma, marcas y imágenes rápidas para cerrar y mantener a los periodistas a través de la plataforma de trabajo. Siempre recibirá una notificación para hacer arreglos. Su reclutador le informará si un trabajo específico requiere asistencia regular en una oficina o instalación de Yahoo. Si tiene alguna pregunta sobre cómo esto se aplica al papel, simplemente pregúntale al reclutadora! Yahoo está orgulloso de ser un lugar de trabajo con igualdad de oportunidades. Todos los solicitantes calificados serán considerados por empleo sin importar la edad, raza, sexo, color, religión, origen nacional, orientación sexual, identidad de género, estatus veterano, discapacidad u otra categoría protegida. Entre otros esfuerzos, nuestros 11 grupos de recursos para empleados (ERGs) promueven una cultura de pertenencia con programas, eventos y compañerías que ayudan a educar, apoyar y crear un lugar de trabajo donde todos se sientan bienvenidos. La compensación por este puesto oscila entre $72,750.00 - $151,250.00 / año y variará dependiendo de factores como su ubicación, habilidades y experiencia. El paquete de compensación también puede incluir oportunidades de indemnización de incentivos en forma de bonos o comisiones anuales discrecionales. Nuestros beneficios integrales incluyen atención médica, un gran 401k, cuidado de copias de respaldo, becas educativas y mucho más. Actualmente trabaja para Yahoo?