Senior Social Editor

$110,625 - $230,625/Yr

Yahoo - Moffett Field, CA

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Hybrid - Moffett Field, CA
10,001+ employees
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Yahoo is seeking an experienced social editor to lead the daily coverage across our news, entertainment, and lifestyle accounts. This role is crucial in driving growth and engagement across various social media platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp. As the senior editor, you will be the primary point of contact for all Yahoo News social platforms, collaborating closely with the curation and originals teams to ensure that breaking news is handled accurately and swiftly. Your responsibilities will include overseeing a consistent flow of expertly curated content from our Yahoo originals team, Yahoo Creators, and high-quality news and lifestyle publishers. In this fast-paced environment, you will manage Yahoo News channels across platforms, setting plans, priorities, and pace for content delivery. You will lead our breaking news coverage, ensuring that news is promoted effectively and handled with care. Your role will also involve writing, editing, and posting content across various social media accounts, planning coverage for key events, and identifying relevant content from our ecosystem to engage our audience. Maintaining Yahoo's editorial voice and upholding our editorial standards on social media will be essential to your success in this position. The ideal candidate will possess a minimum of 7 years of experience in social media-focused journalism roles, demonstrating strong news judgment and the ability to adapt text-based journalism for social platforms. You should have extensive knowledge of established and emerging social platforms, along with the ability to craft compelling, clear, and error-free copy that adheres to AP and house style guidelines. Familiarity with video editing software and analytics tools will also be beneficial as you strive to create impactful experiences for our users.

Responsibilities

  • Manage Yahoo News channels across platforms, setting the plans, priorities and pace.
  • Lead our breaking news coverage across social, liaising effectively with the curation and originals teams to ensure news is handled with care and properly promoted.
  • Write, edit and post content on News accounts across platforms including but not limited to Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, TikTok, Threads, Reddit, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn.
  • Effectively plan coverage for key tentpole events - considering the different needs for each social platform.
  • Identify content from our ecosystem - tapping Yahoo originals, third-party publisher content and creator content - to bubble up the right topics for the right platforms at the right times.
  • Commission short video clips of key moments from live events.
  • Maintain Yahoo's editorial voice; uphold Yahoo News editorial standards and best practices on social media; and reflect our North Star and user needs in decisions.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 7 years experience in social media-focused journalism roles.
  • Experience working in fast-paced and/or large-scale media, news or social media companies.
  • Demonstrated news judgment and ability to adapt text-based journalism for social and messaging platforms.
  • Ability to craft compelling, clear, error-free copy for social audiences that adheres to AP and house style guidelines.
  • Extensive knowledge of social platforms - established and emerging - as well as platform best practices, industry trends and audience consumption habits.
  • Knowledge of video editing software and experience using templates, graphics and footage to create video content for social.
  • Collegial, adaptable and eager to experiment toward experiences that deliver the greatest impact for users.
  • Ability to perform deadline-oriented tasks without sacrificing quality.
  • Attention to detail and strong communication skills.
  • Experience with analytics tools and making insightful data actionable.
  • Fluency in tools such as Canva, SocialFlow, Emplifi, Sprout, Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Later, etc.

Benefits

  • Healthcare
  • 401K savings plan
  • Company holidays
  • Vacation
  • Sick time
  • Parental leave
  • Employee assistance program
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