Senior Commerce Editor, Beauty

Senior Commerce Editor, Beauty – Remote

Location: US National

Full-Time

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

Yahoo is seeking an enthusiastic, experienced beauty editor to join its Commerce Content team. We’re looking for a whip-smart commerce-content editor with a passion for beauty — and the chops to speak to a broad, aged 40-65+ audience in a compelling, authentic voice. In this fast-paced environment, you’ll be the lead editor for the beauty category, primarily focused on trying and testing products, and creating SEO-focused product reviews, best lists, trend coverage and roundups — as well as shopping events like Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday. The right candidate is nimble enough to write and edit hands-on product reviews, trend pieces, and long-form roundups. Sense of humor, a spark, and warmth are key. Commerce content experience is a must, and a background in service journalism for a 40-65+ audience is a huge plus.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Executive Editor, Commerce, you’ll pitch, assign, edit and write, thoroughly reported and researched commerce stories that are smart, informative, engaging and meet our editorial guidelines and standards
• As the team’s resident in-house commerce expert in beauty, you’ll produce best-in-class commerce stories that are differentiated from others in the market and add value for the reader, while optimizing for SEO, engagement and revenue
• Identify key beauty shopping trends to create high-value content
• Work with other commerce writers and editors across the Yahoo ecosystem
• Participate in lively and researched brainstorms for story ideas and topic focuses, guided by data
• Juggle multiple projects and stories at once with varying deadlines

Qualifications

• 5+ years writing and editing beauty content for a mass audience, with a deep understanding of (and passion for) online shopping, internet trends and culture. Experienced editors welcome!
• Familiarity with Yahoo’s audience and voice
• Expert-level knowledge of beauty trends
• Experience writing and editing everything from voice-y, first-person stories to in-depth, researched and reported SEO stories
• Has network of freelance beauty experts, freelance writers, and PR contacts
• Creative thinker with excellent editorial judgment
• Strong knowledge of SEO and best practices for optimizing content
• Deadline-driven, strategic thinker
• Knack for crafting click-y headlines
• Exceptional editing and reporting skills
• Thorough and detail-oriented
• Self-motivated, yet enjoy working collaboratively
• Proven ability to be nimble and adjust quickly to trends, news cycles, and a constantly changing work environment
• Strong organizational and communication skills

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.