Associate Content Engagement Editor, Yahoo Finance

About the role

A Little About Us
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.

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.
• Optimize story placement, headlines, thumbnails, framing, and recirculation to improve engagement and keep Yahoo Finance feeling essential throughout the day.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Pay

The compensation for this position ranges from $56,250.00 - $117,500.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.

Schedule

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)