Senior Editor and Content Strategist

About 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.

About the Role

Yahoo Finance is seeking a skilled Senior Editor and Content Specialist to guide our coverage of mortgages and related home lending topics. In this role, you’ll be responsible for creating and maintaining high-quality, consumer-focused content and tools that give users the information and confidence they need to find and get a mortgage and make smart personal finance decisions related to home buying and selling.

The successful candidate will bring a creative and rigorous approach to assigning and editing articles and a proven record of tracking content production and performance, updating and optimizing articles and tools, and collaborating with product, engineering, design, and other departments. We're looking for an experienced, and thoughtful individual who knows how to make freelance and staff writers operate at the highest levels of quality and integrity while ensuring every team member's contributions are valued.

Responsibilities:

• Conceive and build content and tool roadmaps for mortgages and other personal finance topic areas
• Assign and edit articles
• Work closely with freelance contributors and staff writers
• Guide and support writers, collaborate with other editors
• Occasionally write articles
• Monitor article and other content performance against SEO and revenue targets
• Test, learn, and iterate on user experiences, article formats and other innovations
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and design on new user experiences and tools that help Yahoo Finance users build wealth
• Collaborate with compliance, PED, legal, business, and other teams to map and execute growth strategy

Qualifications:

• 7+ years as an editor in personal finance content marketing or journalism
• Experience covering mortgages, refinancing, and home equity products
• Careful, detail-oriented editing skills
• A strong understanding of SEO
• Experience building and using content workflow and monitoring systems
• Understanding of how to monitor content against SEO and revenue metrics
• Understanding of how content, product and commerce work together in an affiliate marketing environment
• A test-and-learn mindset
• A thoughtful approach to the use of AI in developing content strategy and workflows (Yahoo Finance does not publish AI generated or edited content)
• A keen awareness of trends in online content, content marketing, and financial journalism
• Strong understanding of the personal finance challenges facing Americans, and genuine empathy for the people navigating them.

Additional Information:

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.

Work Environment:

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!

Equal Opportunity Employer:

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.

Diversity and Inclusion:

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.

Compensation and Benefits:

The compensation for this position ranges from $90,750.00 - $188,750.00/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.

Internal Applicants:

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.

Key skills/competency

• Senior Editor
• Content Strategist
• Mortgage Coverage
• Personal Finance Journalism
• Content Performance
• SEO Strategy
• Content Workflow Management
• Affiliate Marketing
• Financial Journalism Trends
• AI in Content Strategy