Yahoo Finance Executive Producer at Yahoo

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

The Executive Producer will be responsible for helping to oversee the editorial, production operations, supervision, and organization of finance news on Yahoo Finance Live.  The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of market concepts and stocks. 

This role is required to be onsite 5 days a week, Monday through Friday at our NYC office.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supervising day to day work activities of the live show team, reporting directly to the Director of Live

• Liaises with Producers, On-Air Talent, Assignment Editors, and Writers to predict, promote, and plan weekly content 

• Produces show from Control Room, communicating with on-air talent, calling elements, etc.

• Supervises editorial content for the live finance news show

• Manage several members of the team 

• Produces individual finance/markets segments

• Works with producers and writers to finetune stories and headlines

• Write and update market-focused banners throughout the show, including the last hour of trading

• Reads content and identifies potential errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar

• Puts together daily markets note that highlights interesting individual stocks and market milestones
   

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, communications, or equivalent work experience

• Minimum 5 years of television production, with a finance news background

• Minimum 2 years of experience as a Line Producer

• Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced, dead-line-driven environment

• Accustomed to working in a team and collaborating with all levels within the organization

• Proven solid writing skills and editorial judgment

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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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, 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.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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