Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is the world's #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news and tools to make financial decisions. The Brand Designer will lead the creative translation of complex financial narratives into dynamic visual stories across digital and social channels, ensuring design consistency and collaboration with various teams.
Responsibilities
- Plan, design, and animate broadcast-quality graphics for daily and weekly programming, including show opens, segment transitions, lower thirds, and customized breaking news packages
- Translate long-form financial investigations and real-time market moments into highly engaging, scroll-stopping motion content tailored for diverse multi-platform social distributions
- 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
- Integrate generative AI design systems into daily asset creation pipelines; utilize automated toolsets to accelerate storyboarding, frame generation, complex rotoscoping, and rapid element cleanup
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lead collaborative design critiques, translating real-time stakeholder notes and data-driven performance metrics into swift visual iterations
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work options
- Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions
- Healthcare
- A great 401k
- Backup childcare
- Education stipends
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