Associate Content Engagement Editor, 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.

Yahoo Finance is the world's leading business and financial news platform, trusted by millions of everyday investors and industry professionals to navigate the markets. The Content Engagement team is the digital heartbeat of our newsroom, steering real-time packaging, platform programming, and audience interaction. We blend sharp editorial instincts with performance data and emerging AI technologies to deliver essential financial clarity to our global audience, 24/7.

Yahoo Finance is looking for an Associate Content Engagement Editor to help shape the daily presentation, packaging and performance of our journalism across desktop, mobile web and app surfaces. This role will own real-time programming decisions, optimize how stories show up across platforms, and craft alerts and headlines that help audiences quickly understand why a story matters to their money. Success in this role will be measured in part by the ability to grow traffic and engagement across Yahoo Finance surfaces.

The right person has strong news judgment, sharp presentation instincts (visuals, headlines, etc.) and a deep interest in markets, business, investing and personal finance. You know how to identify the biggest story in the moment, frame it clearly for broad audiences, and package it in a way that drives engagement without losing accuracy or trust.

This position requires a consistent weekend schedule.

Possible shifts (all times ET):

Shift 1: 7:00a-3:30p, Thu/Fri off (30-minute break)

Shift 2: 12:00p-8:30p, Mon/Tue off (30-minute break)

• Program Yahoo Finance desktop, mobile web, and app experiences with a focus on breaking news, markets coverage, analysis, personal finance, and major tentpole moments.
• Optimize story placement, headlines, thumbnails, framing, and recirculation to improve engagement and keep Yahoo Finance feeling essential throughout the day. This includes pairing stories with strong visuals and iterating on image selection as stories develop and audience signals come in.
• Collaborate with approved AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc) to draft, iterate, and optimize high-impact alternative SEO headlines and mobile alerts,
• 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 and internal AI-driven audience recommendation systems to inform programming decisions across story placement, headline framing, recirculation, and alert strategy as news shifts, sharing and applying insights with colleagues throughout the day.
• Partner closely with editors, reporters, video, social, product, and analytics teams to align programming decisions with the biggest editorial priorities and audience opportunities.
• Contribute to a fast, test-and-learn culture where strong editorial judgment is paired with performance data, automation, and continuous experimentation.
• Work closely with the video teams to identify compelling content and storylines and help surface, package, and distribute them across Yahoo Finance platforms.

• 2-3 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.
• Professional experience with headline writing, content curation, copy editing, SEO, and Google Trends.
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