Senior Editor, Banking and Investing

The largest business and financial news site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights and original editorial content.

About Us:

Yahoo Finance is the #1 Finance site on the Internet - attracting over 90 million users across the globe. We are the destination of choice for investors around the world. Yahoo! Finance offers a rich set of content, from our highly acclaimed originals to online-only video segments to our tremendous array of licensed material. At Yahoo Finance, we power experiences for millions of users globally every month and remain the clear leader in our category.

The Personal Finance Content team produces reference articles and guides that, in addition to the news team's daily coverage, assures that Yahoo Finance offers the broadest, most reliable and useful information about its audiences' most important financial decisions and opportunities. The Personal Finance Content team is focused on producing articles, calculators and other tools that help consumers understand their money and make smart decisions to increase their wealth. We're looking for enthusiastic, empathetic teammates who relish the challenge of helping people understand and navigate the uncertain financial world we live in. To work with us, you should be comfortable writing an article about how to find the best CD, working with the product team to build a compound interest calculator or collaborating on a search optimization project to make our work easier to find.

About the Role:

Yahoo Finance is seeking a skilled, forward-looking editor and content specialist to guide our coverage of banking, with a secondary focus on investing, as part of our evergreen personal finance content effort. We're looking for an experienced, creative, and thoughtful leader who knows how to make a team of staff and freelance writers operate at the highest levels of quality and integrity while ensuring every team member's contributions are valued. The editor’s goal will be to create and maintain high-quality, consumer-focused content and tools on banking, investing, and related subjects that give people the information and confidence they need to make smart banking and other personal finance decisions.

The successful candidate will bring a creative and rigorous approach to assigning and editing articles and have a proven record of tracking content production, measuring content performance against SEO and revenue metrics, updating and optimizing articles and tools, and collaborating with PED and other departments.

Responsibilities:

Conceive and build content and tool roadmaps for banking, investing, and other personal finance topic areas

Assign and edit articles

Work closely with staff writers and freelance contributors

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 content optimization

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 and manager in personal finance content marketing or journalism

Experience covering banking, investing, and related personal finance topics

Careful, detail-oriented line and copy editing skills

A strong understanding of SEO

Experience building and using content workflow, data, 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 keen awareness of trends in online content, content marketing, and financial journalism

Familiarity with the personal finance challenges faced by Americans

Empathy for people facing those challenges