General Manager, Video, 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.

Every market day, from its New York Studios, the Yahoo Finance Live team delivers five hours of stock-market and business coverage. It is already one of the US’ top three digital business and finance video providers and continues to grow its reach and impact across digital and connected TV platforms. Distribution partners include Google and YouTube, Apple, Samsung, Amazon Freevee, Roku, DirecTV, and others.

Video plays a key role in guiding tens of millions of Yahoo Finance users, providing them with the insights and information they need to make better decisions. 

In this role, reporting to the Vice President of Content, you will lead the growth of the video business across strategy, distribution, revenue, and operations. You will be the key partner to the editorial, creative, and production head of Yahoo Finance Video, joining forces to grow the appeal, reach, impact, and profitability of Yahoo Finance’s video news operations: 

A Bit About You:

• You will lead distribution and syndication sales to continue to grow opportunities to reach audiences wherever they are in the US and internationally. 

• You will ensure that a diverse set of revenue opportunities is identified, tracked, and appropriately structured and resourced.

• You will oversee support for existing and new distribution partners, ensuring they are getting the information and guidance they need to help grow awareness and viewing of Yahoo Finance Live.

• You will lead business efforts to expand Yahoo Finance’s video offer through coproductions, partnerships and acquisitions. As those efforts progress, you will be expected to directly handle evaluation, structure, negotiation and implementation of a range of agreement types, as well as the ongoing relationship and business management of those alliances

• You will be the principal liaison between the video content and production leaders and internal teams at Yahoo essential to the development of the business

A Bit About the Role:

• Draw on technical product, internal analytics, and ad sales teams to highlight audience and monetization trends, validating programming priorities against promising market opportunities. 

• Act as a key partner to financial planning and business strategy teams, ensuring that the technical, creative and talent needs of the news team are evaluated and incorporated into overall business planning.

• Work with commercial teams to regularly review and update programming plans and foster creative collaboration with the goal of creating commercial packages to maximize revenue opportunities.

• Position video as key lever in Yahoo Finance marketing, ensuring on-air messaging supports and enhances other digital efforts.

The position is based in Yahoo Finance’s New York editorial and video production headquarters. A regular in-office presence will be essential to success in the role.

Desired skills and qualifications: 

• A minimum of 10+ years experience in television or digital video businesses, ideally with experience in managing P&L’s, developing business rationales for programming investments or acquisitions, and developing familiarity with both advertising and distribution channels.

• Experience structuring, negotiating, and implementing production partnerships (e.g., television and film production, acquisition, distribution, digital, emerging businesses, etc.).

• Knowledge and understanding of digital media initiatives, platforms, products and services (streaming, distribution models and platforms, etc.).

• Strong analytical skills.

• Experience in CTV businesses, international markets, and/or adtech a plus.

• Specific experience in and passion for business and financial news and programming a plus.

• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.

• Successful experience navigating complex organizations.

• Strong interpersonal communication skills (written and oral) with an emotionally intelligent communication style.