Brand Designer (Editorial & Illustration), Yahoo 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.

A Little About Us

Yahoo Finance is the largest digital destination for people who want to understand their money, the markets, and the forces shaping the global economy. Our mission is to make finance clear and useful so people understand not only what is happening, but what it means for them. As Yahoo Finance evolves, we want our visual identity to carry more energy, personality, and ambition—in motion and everywhere else.

About the Role

As a Motion Designer (IC3) on the Yahoo Finance team, you will lead the creative translation of complex financial narratives into dynamic visual stories across our digital, video, and social channels. Reporting directly to the Creative Director, you will operate as an independent professional, owning the end-to-end design and animation of daily video assets, breaking news graphics, and promotional campaigns.

In this role, you will work with minimal guidance to champion design consistency while collaborating daily with video producers, editors, and editorial staff. You will actively incorporate AI-driven tools and automation methodologies into your production workflows to decrease delivery turnaround time while maintaining an exceptionally high bar for visual craft and composition.

What You'll Do

• Video & Show Packaging: Plan, design, and animate broadcast-quality graphics for daily and weekly programming, including show opens, segment transitions, lower thirds, and customized breaking news packages.

• Social Asset Optimization: Translate long-form financial investigations and real-time market moments into highly engaging, scroll-stopping motion content tailored for diverse multi-platform social distributions.

• Workflow Automation & Toolkits: Architect, deploy, and maintain intelligent motion templates and asset toolkits (e.g., smart MOGRT workflows) that enable video production squads to scale daily content creation without losing visual integrity.

• AI-Augmented Production: Integrate generative AI design systems into daily asset creation pipelines; utilize automated toolsets to accelerate storyboarding, frame generation, complex rotoscoping, and rapid element cleanup.

• Algorithmic Asset Versioning: Implement automated scripting and generative tools to handle high-volume asset variations, replacing repetitive manual resizing tasks for multi-platform social aspect ratios with intelligent layout adjustments.

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as a core creative resource for the newsroom; sync early with editorial, social, and video teams during concept phases to integrate motion-first thinking directly into story blueprints.

• Brand Governance: Govern and iterate upon Yahoo Finance’s overarching motion language, ensuring all self-directed and templated outputs remain strictly aligned with modern brand standards and competitor differentiators.

• Constructive Iteration: Lead collaborative design critiques, translating real-time stakeholder notes and data-driven performance metrics into swift visual iterations.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional motion design experience within a fast-paced digital newsroom, broadcast studio, creative agency, or editorial environment.

• Verified portfolio or showreel showcasing extensive motion graphics execution, with explicit evidence of design thinking, structural composition, typography, and visual hierarchy.

• Expert operational command of Adobe Creative Cloud suites, specifically After Effects, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

• Demonstrated experience utilizing AI-augmented creative tools or generative systems within a production environment to accelerate asset generation or texture rendering.

• Proven experience building and deploying scalable motion graphic templates (MOGRTs) within premiere workflows or adjacent broadcast playback ecosystems.

• Ability to work independently with minimal daily supervision, managing multiple complex visual assets simultaneously against tight, news-driven daily deadlines.

• Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally alongside video editors, data journalists, or creative directors.

• Professional commitment to financial news storytelling, with a strong focus on using movement to make dense mathematical or economic insights instantly clear to a broad consumer audience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience utilizing automated prompt engineering or asset-generation pipelines within specialized visual software to optimize rendering and brainstorming velocity.

• High-level operational familiarity with live production parameters, newsroom control room systems, or broadcast environments.

• Practical working proficiency with 3D design and animation tools, specifically Cinema 4D or Blender.

• Strong focus on emerging trends in digital animation, creative engineering, and AI-driven workflow developments.

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.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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 +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $96,000.00 - $200,000.00/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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