YouTube Associate Producer, 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

The Yahoo Finance YouTube team is dedicated to building the premier video destination for a new generation of investors. We move beyond basic stock updates to explore how business, money, and power show up in real life and shape our world. Operating as a fast-paced, collaborative team, we transform complex market narratives into highly engaging, culturally relevant visual stories.

About the Role

We are seeking an Associate Producer, YouTube to support the day-to-day execution, creative development, and packaging of our YouTube channel. Sitting at the intersection of financial news, storytelling, and digital media, this is a hands-on production role focused on the logistical, creative, and technical elements of video creation. Working under the guidance of the YouTube Lead, you will help shape daily stories, package video assets, and use performance data to iterate on what works to drive views and channel growth.

Responsibilities

• Produce and package daily YouTube content from Yahoo Finance’s extensive content library of shows, and interviews into clear, standalone, platform-native video packages.

• Support senior producers in translating complex financial concepts into structured, visually engaging video concepts.

• Develop concepts for YouTube-native formats that translate complex financial topics into visual, culturally resonant videos that drive views, engagement, and growth.

• Execute day-to-day video packaging — titles, thumbnails, descriptions, chapters — grounded in audience behavior and real-time trends.

• Use YouTube Analytics to monitor performance (CTR, views, watch time, retention, subscribers) and support ongoing A/B testing and content experiments.

• Partner collaboratively with editorial, social, senior producers, and talent to adapt live video segments across the Yahoo ecosystem.

• Actively experiment with and adopt emerging internal and approved third-party AI video and productivity tools to identify new operational efficiencies in daily creative workflows.

• Utilize approved AI tools to draft multiple variations of highly engaging, search-optimized video titles, descriptions, and descriptive metadata for final editorial review.

Required Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in digital, streaming, or social video production, journalism, or social video creation.

• Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or similar editing systems to execute high-quality, quick-turn video edits daily.

• Solid understanding of core YouTube packaging mechanics, including thumbnails, title optimization, playlists, and community features

• Interest in markets, personal finance, and business trends, with a strong curiosity to learn and translate financial topics for a broader digital audience.

• Strong written communication and editorial judgment, with a focus on writing clear, compelling headlines and descriptions.

• Commitment to continuous learning, experimentation, and adapting workflows to evolving digital platforms and AI-augmented environments.

• Outstanding organizational skills and high attention to detail while managing multiple deadlines in a fast-paced news environment.

• Comfort working with basic data dashboards and performance analytics to support content decisions.

• Flexibility to work a variable schedule, including occasional early mornings, evenings, or weekends aligned with major financial market events or earnings cycles.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in digital video production or social content creation. 

• Advanced proficiency in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, particularly Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop for graphic and basic motion asset creation.

• Experience utilizing generative text models to systematically brainstorm, draft, and refine creative video hooks, copy variations, and distribution angles.

• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop for thumbnail and graphics creation.

• Familiarity with YouTube analytics and structured channel testing (A/B testing titles, formats, thumbnails, and publishing times).

• Experience growing a YouTube channel, with measurable impact on views, watch time, subscribers, and audience composition.

• Core knowledge of financial news sectors (e.g., markets, cryptocurrency, corporate earnings).

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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 $56,250.00 - $117,500.00/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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