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About Us:
The Personal Finance content team produces reference articles and guides that, in addition to the news team’s daily coverage, ensure that Yahoo Finance offers the broadest, most reliable and useful information about its audiences’ most important financial decisions and opportunities. The Personal Finance content team is focused on producing articles, calculators and other tools that help consumers understand their money and make smart decisions to increase their wealth. We’re looking for enthusiastic, empathetic teammates who relish the challenge of helping people understand and navigate the uncertain financial world we live in. To work with us, you should be enthusiastic about writing an article to help someone find the best travel credit card, working with the product team to build a balance transfer calculator or collaborating on a search optimization project to make our work easier to find online.
About You:
Yahoo Finance is seeking skilled writers to help launch our coverage of credit cards, rewards programs and related topics. To succeed, you’ll need to be enthusiastic about diving deep in areas that you already know and comfortable learning the ins and outs of personal finance-related topics that are new to you. We’re looking for writers with high standards who value the pursuit of excellence and are always willing to learn. We’re here to produce content and tools that give people the confidence they need to make financial decisions.
If you’re excited by the idea of using your writing skills and knowledge of credit cards, and personal finance more generally, to help people meet their financial challenges with confidence while building a new team inside a thriving and growing enterprise, you’ll fit right in on our Personal Finance Content team.
Responsibilities:
- Research, report and write articles on credit cards, rewards programs, credit scores and related topics
- Deepen your subject matter expertise while writing frequently
- Collaborate with SEO, product and business teams to execute content strategy
- Collaborate with fellow writers, and support editors
- Monitor article performance and update as needed in collaboration with SEO team
- Test, learn, iterate on article formats and other optimizations
Qualifications:
- 5 or more years as a writer in personal finance content marketing or journalism
- Experience covering credit cards, rewards programs, credit scores and related topics
- Strong interest in these topics demonstrated via a track record of published work
- Demonstrated writing skill including excellent grammar and style
- A rigorous approach to sourcing, including experience interviewing subject matter experts
- A willingness to work collaboratively with editors and other writers
- A strong understanding of SEO
- An understanding of how content, product and commerce work together in an affiliate marketing environment
- Familiarity with the personal finance challenges faced by Americans
- Empathy for people facing those challenges