Editor, Content Engagement

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

Additional Information

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.

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