Creative Director, Video and Visual Storytelling
The largest business and financial news site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights and original editorial content.
Creative Director
About Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance is the most-used business and financial digital platform in the world, offering millions of daily users access to data, insights, tools, news, and information from its in-house team and other leading financial media. Its news operation produces live streaming market coverage each trading day, as well as other special programming throughout the week. Its programming reaches millions of viewers daily through Yahoo Finance’s apps and platforms, social media platforms, and leading Advanced TV platforms. Our digital storytelling plays a key role In support of Yahoo Finance’s mission of helping all our users protect and increase their wealth, focusing on economic, corporate, and investing news and insights that drive the markets, personal-finance priorities, and insightful profiles and interviews of the world’s most prominent business leaders and influential investors.
About this job
This is a key leadership role on our video team, reporting directly to the Head of Video/Managing Editor, Yahoo Finance Live. In this role, you will shape the style, look and approach as Yahoo Finance Video pursues its goal of building the best set of media and tools for all who want to protect and increase their wealth. With your help, Yahoo Finance video programming will integrate clear, useful reporting with data and graphics to provide audiences with useful insights and ideas that address the key questions they face.
Responsibilities:
Seamlessly syncs ideas with overall business strategy, applying through execution. Sets the creative vision for Yahoo Finance Video’s future, drawing from the brand’s overall leadership and goals.
Scales
A multidisciplinary powerhouse who easily swings between creating YF Live, Specials, and Series graphic packages, animations, and more. Skills that expand to social, video, and reporting are a plus.
Passionate about finance news, and visual storytelling, and is effective in relaying vision to the team, stakeholders, and beyond.
Ability to manage large workloads, delegate effectively, and meet fast-moving deadlines
Ability to move fast, reprioritize, and maximize resources.
Ability to optimize resources by democratizing graphic creation among reporters, producers, and beyond.
Ability to take complex ideas and transform them into engaging relevant, fresh storytelling ideas.
Obsessed with data and applies it to deliverables.
Transform business as usual, and drive change, consistently and methodically, across all of Yahoo’s distribution channels.
Understands how to scale visual storytelling and amplify the output. For instance, explainer graphics for the show should scale to social, video assets, and article pages.
This leader has strong leadership skills, nurtures teams, builds bridges, and sets the tone for what a successful environment looks like.
Basic Qualifications:
The qualified candidate has 10+ years in a Creative leadership role in a top television and news market
Extensive experience with live programming, events, specials, and sponsorships
A creative visionary who sees the big picture and steers the team toward it
Engages in leadership meetings, sets a clear roadmap for long-term goals and growth
Strong project management skills, building, maintaining, and executing the roadmap for all aspects of video from Yahoo Finance Live, Video, Articles, Social Media, YouTube, Distribution, and beyond
This person has advanced experience building workflows, improving efficiencies, CMS, and other publishing tools
Proven hands-on experience with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, AfferEffect, and other design and animation tools
Experience with video editing tools a plus
Extensive experience negotiating and managing contracts with outside vendors
Experience managing a team of direct reports
Strong creative background, with a deep understanding of financial journalism, and storytelling on various platforms from OTT, social media, and Youtube.Has a clear vision of how they can elevate Yahoo Finance Video to award status.
Experience partnering with sales, marketing, and other initiatives tied to video goals
The compensation for this position ranges from $129,210.00 - $281,305.00/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, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.