Writer, Credit Cards – Remote

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

A Little 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. 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.

A Lot About You: 

Yahoo Finance is seeking a skilled writer to help grow our coverage of credit cards, rewards programs, and related topics. To succeed, you’ll need to be enthusiastic about explaining the complexities of credit cards to readers looking to choose the cards that best suit their needs, whether that’s a shopper searching for the best cash-back offer or a traveler who wants a sign-on bonus to make a vacation affordable. We’re looking for a writer with high standards who values the pursuit of excellence and is always willing to learn.

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 growing a 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
• Create rubrics and scoring methodologies to evaluate and rank credit cards
• Pivot quickly to cover credit card news and launches
• 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, and iterate on article formats and other optimizations

Qualifications: 

• 5 or more years as a writer in personal finance content marketing or journalism
• At least 3 years of experience exclusively covering credit cards, rewards programs, credit scores, and related topics
• A demonstrated track record of published work that shows skill at making complex information and concepts digestible for all readers
• Demonstrated writing skill including excellent grammar and style, along with an ability to learn and follow style guides
• Ability to exhaustively research topics matched with 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

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $72,750.00 – $151,250.00/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, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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