Associate Content Engagement Editor, Yahoo Finance

Overview

Yahoo Finance is the world’s leading financial news platform, powering millions of investors with real‑time market data, original reporting, and tools to inform financial decisions.

We are looking for an Associate Content Engagement Editor to 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 appear across platforms, and craft alerts and headlines that help audiences quickly understand why a story matters to their money.

This position requires a consistent weekend schedule.

• Shift 1: 7:00 a–3:30 p, Thu/Fri off (30‑minute break)
• Shift 2: 12:00 p–8:30 p, 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.
• A commitment to 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.
• Experience working closely with SEO teams to improve search performance; familiarity with Editorial SEO and tools like Google Trends is a plus.

• 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.

Compensation ranges from $56,250.00 – $ /yr and may include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. The…