Lead Designer, Video and Graphic Storytelling

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

To be considered for this role you must be able to commute daily to our NYC office. This position is a New York-centric role and this leader will be expected to be in the office 4-5 days per week.

Yahoo Finance is the most-used business and financial digital platform in the world, offering millions of daily users access to data, insights, tools, news, and information from its in-house team and other leading financial media. Its news operation produces live streaming market coverage each trading day, as well as other special programming throughout the week. Its programming reaches millions of viewers daily through Yahoo Finance’s apps and platforms, social media platforms, and leading Advanced TV platforms. Our digital storytelling plays a key role In support of Yahoo Finance’s mission of helping all our users protect and increase their wealth, focusing on economic, corporate, and investing news and insights that drive the markets, personal-finance priorities, and insightful profiles and interviews of the world’s most prominent business leaders and influential investors.

About the Role:

The senior designer is a leadership role on our video team, reporting to the programming director. Collaboration across the Yahoo and Yahoo Finance brand is key, and this person will be working with the Dir. of Series and Events, the Head of Marketing and vertical Brand, and other executives at Yahoo Finance.

The role is perfect for a multi-disciplinary creative with extensive experience in design, art direction, copy, content capture, and experience managing creative professionals and creative projects.  This role is a combination of leader and designer/animator and sets the gold star standard for the design team.

As senior graphics designer, you will be directing digital creative projects from kickoff to completion. You will be ensuring that we follow global brand direction, and style guides, and write in the brand voice. You will be focused on creating excellent, compelling, and effective creative executions that deliver against each brief.  The key areas of responsibility will include Yahoo Finance Live, Series, Events, and overarching design of content as it travels from the Yahoo Finance platform to our other platforms like streaming, YouTube, social media, and more. 

Responsibilities:

• Seamlessly syncs ideas with overall business strategy, applying through execution. Sets the creative vision for Yahoo Finance Video’s future, drawing from the brand’s overall leadership and goals.

• Scales design production through streamlined operations, new tools, templates, and more.

• A multidisciplinary powerhouse who easily swings between creating YF Live, Specials, and Series graphic packages, animations, and more. Skills that expand to social, video, and reporting are a plus.

• Passionate about finance news, and visual storytelling, and is effective in relaying vision to the team, stakeholders, and beyond.

• Ability to manage large workloads, delegate effectively, and meet fast-moving  deadlines

• Ability to move fast, reprioritize, and maximize resources. 

• Ability to optimize resources by democratizing graphic creation among reporters, producers, and beyond.

• Ability to take complex ideas and transform them into engaging relevant, fresh storytelling ideas.

• Obsessed with data and applies it to deliverables.

• Transform business as usual, and drive change, consistently and methodically, across all of Yahoo’s distribution channels.

• Understands how to scale visual storytelling and amplify the output. For instance, explainer graphics for the show should scale to social, video assets, and article pages.

• This leader has strong leadership skills, nurtures teams, builds bridges, and sets the tone for what a successful environment looks like.

Minimum Qualifications:

• The qualified candidate has 5-8+ years in a leadership role in a top television and news market 

• Extensive experience with live programming, events, specials, and sponsorships

• A creative visionary who sees the big picture and steers the team toward it

• Engages in leadership meetings, sets a clear roadmap for long-term goals and growth

• Strong project management skills, building, maintaining, and executing the roadmap for all aspects of video from Yahoo Finance Live, Video, Articles, Social Media, YouTube, Distribution, and beyond

• This person has advanced experience building workflows, improving efficiencies, CMS, and other publishing tools

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