Editor in Chief, Canada

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love — from news to finance, to shopping and entertainment — with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. 

At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world’s best curator for our daily users, expanding our distribution to meet millions more users where they are. Building the best guide to the Internet (and the world) requires building the best team.

A Lot About You

We are seeking a news-obsessed, results-driven editor in chief to set the strategic vision for Yahoo News in Canada. In this new role overseeing the newsroom, you will be responsible for editorial direction, audience development, operations, and Canadian partnerships. The ideal candidate has experience and demonstrated success in setting and executing strategy and leading a team to grow new audiences, deepen engagement and establish habitual and loyal relationships with readers.  

The Yahoo News Canada team creates content experiences consumed by hundreds of thousands of users daily across News, Lifestyle, Entertainment and Finance. As such, this role requires a seasoned journalist and strategic leader with demonstrated experience in digital media, superior editorial judgment and grounding in journalistic standards as well as strong organizational and communication skills.

The ideal candidate will have a clear vision of how to evolve Yahoo News to best serve Canadian audiences with a focus on quality curation and impactful stories.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the newsroom, define the editorial vision and guide the content strategy to drive audience growth, engagement, and retention for Yahoo News Canada

• Evolve the creation and curation of content in all Yahoo News products to improve quality, usefulness, context and packaging

• Drive fresh thinking and innovation as we reinvent our product portfolio in 2024 and beyond

• Realize user growth and engagement through producing and curating excellent content in ways that meet our audiences' needs and create habits

• Help drive coverage plans for tentpole events across a variety of content categories

• Lead the development, tracking and analysis of rigorous KPIs related to content, audience engagement, and editorial operations

• Use insights to make adjustments to editorial strategies, including how we deploy resources to make improvements that will meaningfully produce growth

• Partner with Yahoo’s global editorial teams to share best practices and create new systems and workflows

• Collaborate with commercial teams to identify and build revenue opportunities to grow the business, including sponsored or branded content, affiliate and e-commerce revenue, events and strategic partnerships

• Build a culture of excellence that cultivates talent and drives creativity while embracing speed, rigor and high standards

• Be a strong voice for Yahoo News Canada, driving strategic transformation and culture change inside the organization and supporting the evolution of brand perception externally
   

Qualifications:

• Relevant leadership experience in developing and executing innovative digital editorial strategies, with direct oversight of a team of journalists in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, digital environment 

• A record of multi-platform leadership with a knowledge of, and ability to lead, the disciplines necessary to succeed on digital platforms - including curation, aggregation, SEO, analytics, data visualization, social strategy & engagement, and breaking news.

• In-depth knowledge of the Canadian digital media environment, combined with the ability to articulate a compelling vision for Yahoo News in Canada and an understanding of how to lead the team in pursuit of that goal 

• Demonstrated record of successfully developing, and negotiating business and organizational relationships – partnerships, collaborations, and vendor relations