Lead GFX Engineer/Designer, Yahoo Finance (Finance)

Yahoo Finance is the world's #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

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.

The Lead GFX Engineer/Designer is a critical role on our video team, reporting to the Director of the Studio. Collaboration across the Yahoo and Yahoo Finance brands is key. This person will work with the director of Production 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, scripting/coding, and experience leading creative professionals and technical projects. This role combines Tech engineer and designer/animator and sets the gold star standard for the YF! Team.

As Lead GFX Engineer/Designer, you will be directing/building technical & creative projects from kickoff to completion. You will ensure that we follow global brand direction and style guides. You will be focused on creating engineering solutions. The key areas of responsibility will include Yahoo Finance Live and overarching design and technical content support as it travels from the Yahoo Finance platform to our other platforms, like streaming, YouTube, social media, and more.

Role 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, effectively relays 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 operate GFX systems such as but not limited to Xpression and Viz in a live production environment.
• Ability to troubleshoot, manage and support GFX systems on a day-to-day basis.
• Ability to take complex ideas and transform them into engaging, relevant, fresh storytelling ideas.
• Focused on data-driven solutions and apply 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 a successful environment.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies in Live/News entertainment, live event production, and Broadcast.
• Develop and execute Live show motion graphics, including on-air, OTT, Social LED ribbon, Touch screen content, and other digital assets for live shows.

• Maintain and update digital assets across studio displays, ensuring a consistently fresh and polished presentation.
• May be asked to train others or create training documentation
• The successful candidate should add creativity and ideas that enhance the final product
• Be able to communicate and document effectively and concisely to the rest of the team
• The position requires above-average knowledge of Ross XPression, Graphics, and control room workflow.
• Technical preparation, coding, and execution of GFX for live and recorded television news content and programming.

Requirements:

• The qualified candidate has 5-8+ years in a GFX designer 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
• Proven hands-on experience with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, AfferEffect, and other design and animation tools
• Experience with video editing tools a plus
• Extensive experience negotiating and managing contracts with outside vendors
• Experience managing a team of direct reports
• Strong creative background, with a deep understanding of financial journalism, and storytelling on various platforms from OTT, social media, and Youtube.Has a clear vision of how they can elevate Yahoo Finance Video to award status.
• Experience partnering with sales, marketing, and other initiatives tied to video goals.

About Yahoo Finance:
Yahoo Finance is the leading source of financial news, data, and analysis, reaching millions of users every day. With a commitment to delivering comprehensive financial insights and market data, Yahoo Finance provides real-time updates, in-depth analysis, and a range of content from breaking news to industry trends. The Creative Director will play a pivotal role in elevating Yahoo Finance's visual storytelling, helping to deepen audience engagement with compelling, high-quality video content that resonates with investors and the broader financial community.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies ; exercising sound judgment ; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others ; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations ; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $110,625.00 - $230,625.00/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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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