Senior Editor and Content Strategist, 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.

A Little About Us

Our Personal Finance team is dedicated to demystifying complex financial decisions, particularly in the high-stakes world of home lending and mortgages. We blend journalistic integrity with data-driven insights to help millions of users navigate their path to homeownership.

About the Role

As the Senior Editor and Content Specialist, you will lead our mortgage and home lending content strategy. You are a seasoned editorial manager who balances high-quality storytelling with technical SEO precision and product collaboration. You will manage a team of staff and freelance writers, ensuring they produce world-class content that drives both user trust and business growth. In this role, you will act as an architect of the content lifecycle, leveraging modern AI tools to accelerate research and optimize editorial workflows while maintaining our strict standards for human-edited integrity.

Responsibilities

• Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies in day-to-day operations, replacing manual tracking tasks with automated or AI-assisted oversight.

• Lead the strategic development of content and tool roadmaps for mortgages, refinancing, and home equity products.

• Manage and coordinate the performance and results of a team of staff writers and a deep bench of freelance contributors.

• Monitor and report on team performance against SEO and revenue targets, adapting departmental plans to meet quarterly goals.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Design to build and optimize tools that help users calculate wealth-building opportunities.

• Exercise judgment in the responsible application of AI tools for internal strategy, ensuring all published output remains human-authored and meets Yahoo’s integrity standards.

• Partner with compliance, legal, and business teams to map and execute growth strategies in an affiliate marketing environment.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of editorial experience in personal finance, marketing, or journalism, with a specific focus on home lending.

• Proven experience managing people or high-volume freelance workstreams

• Expertise in utilizing AI tools (e.g., Gemini, ChatGPT Enterprise) for workflow acceleration.

• A commitment to staying current on emerging AI editorial tools and proactively suggesting improvements to the content lifecycle.

• Deep specialized knowledge of mortgages, refinancing, and the home-buying journey.

• Advanced SEO expertise and experience using monitoring systems to track revenue and traffic metrics.

• Experience operating in an affiliate marketing or commerce-driven content environment.

• Strong empathetic leadership skills with a focus on coaching and people development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AI-driven diagnostics for content performance and technical SEO.

• Experience working with high-growth financial products or fintech tools.

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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.

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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.

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