Section Editor Remote

Overview

Yahoo Finance is seeking an editor to help us organize and manage the discovery and presentation of news, research, data and tools that can help our users learn more about particular industry sectors and financial asset classes.

Responsibilities

• Help build and curate various pages on finance.yahoo.com
• Exercise strong financial news judgment across a variety of topics
• Collaborate with other editors, Product, and SEO to optimize various presentations of content across pages and troubleshoot issues that arise
• Continually learn about new financial topics to better serve Yahoo Finance users
• Specifically, bring and/or build subject-matter expertise in one or more sectors of S&P 500
• Help identify additional publishing partners that will help serve Yahoo Finance users
• Brainstorm with colleagues about new ways to help further Yahoo Finance’s mission to help people build wealth
• Share best practices and learning across teams
• Work with content, stock ticker pages, screeners, charts, and other tools to help optimize user experience
• Help track and analyze data for all of the above
• Support editorial operations as needed

Required Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience working in an editorial function at a media organization
• Enthusiasm for financial news, learning about new topics, and distribution of content
• Track record of success and an ability to collaborate with multiple teams
• Strong framing and headline-writing skills
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Strong copy-editing skills
• Strong news judgment for making real-time decisions

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior extended experience covering a major industrial sector a plus
• Comprehensive understanding of editorial best practices and style guides
• B.A. preferred or equivalent job experience
• Editorial SEO knowledge is a plus