Job Description

Our client, Yahoo Finance, is looking for a Live Producer!

PAY RATE: $450/day

JOB REQUIREMENTS: Must be local to New York, NY (or willing to work as a local).

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions confidently. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data and news across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. 

Our expanding video offer plays a key role in guiding our audiences with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity. Every market day, our flagship news shows follow market developments and turn to lead investment managers and strategists, research analysts, executives, and policymakers to keep viewers abreast of what’s driving performance and shaping future opportunities.

We are seeking a skilled producer who is excited about the opportunity to create, pitch, and produce numerous segments per day that are distributed to Yahoo Finance’s vast audience.

This individual is key to developing programming that helps our viewers make informed choices about their money.

Responsibilities

• As a key member of the production team, you will pitch, develop, and produce numerous live show segments per day
• You will be responsible for researching segments, identifying key topics for discussion
• Developing and creating graphics to visually aid the story on air
• Works closely with the SEO team to frame segments and guests bookings to best serve our distribution needs and goals
• Responsible for 5-7 segments daily and responsible for a pipeline of segments in the weeks and months ahead
• Collaborate with the show Talent and bookers to identify and book experts across multiple fields, including C-Suite level guests, Market experts, industry insiders, and more whose advice will help our audience make informed decisions.
• Collaborative with bookers, talent, reports, graphic designers, studio team and more

Qualifications

• 4+ years of producing experience within a major news organization, ideally a strong streaming and/or digital media outlet preferred
• Must have a passion for Finance news and live-streaming production
• A key passion for storytelling is a must
• An in-depth understanding of current events is essential, while a high-level understanding of financial news is preferred
• Solid storytelling and impeccable editorial judgment
• Strong use of imagery, graphics and animations in video storytelling
• Deep understanding of how to create content for the audience and the platforms where the content appears
• Excellent time management skills and ability to balance priorities and multiple projects and tasks with ease
• Must be able to work in New York City
• Experience with shooting, editing, graphics and field production a major plus

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