Performance Editor

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

The Performance Editor will track and analyze various inputs for the Yahoo Finance newsroom, analyze that information, and provide both visibility and direction for content creation to increase overall performance.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate across the Yahoo Finance newsroom — Video, News, Evergreen, and Distribution (Social, Graphics, Front Page, etc) — to aid editorial decision making.

Provide daily and ad hoc analysis on content creation and distribution choices so that leaders can adjust dynamically and opportunistically as major topics emerge.

Work with various teams at Yahoo to translate and operationalize relevant information to add insights into day-to-day editorial operations.

Learn Yahoo Finance editorial routes from ideation to publication to better collaborate when responding to questions about editorial choices.

Handle hyper-specific requests from the newsroom to help improve performance.

Develop a cadence for analyzing and reporting actionable information to editors and leaders about various editorial operations.

Work with social media editors to track, analyze, and operationalize relevant information.

Required Qualifications:

5+ years experience working with editorial and/or social audience development at a media organization

Comprehensive understanding of editorially-actionable information

Passion for finance news and an interest in learning more about various subjects

Strong project management, communication, and organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications:

B.A. preferred or equivalent job experience

Editorial SEO experience is a plus

Proficiency in Google Analytics and broader Google Suite

Proficiency in Excel and SQL