Yahoo! is a true web pioneer - founded 16 years ago to help people makes sense of the internet. Today, across the globe, over 600 million people use Yahoo! every month. As the web has expanded we’ve continued to build innovative and imaginative experiences that are uniquely Yahoo! We do it each and every day and you could too. Now’s the time to show the world what you’ve got. Put your ideas to work and help half a billion people get more from the internet than they every imagined.
Department Overview:
The Audience Team focus is to ensure the delivery of brilliant daily experiences. Our leitmotif is “The right thing, on the right place, at the right time”. The team will support the need for localization and production tasks that are critical for the right product experience. The team is also responsible for defining the editorial voice and ensuring that it is performed in all markets.
We're looking for a creative and versatile Projects Editor for Yahoo! Middle East. The ideal candidate will have a good background in the online Media industry, excellent editorial skills, a feel for the types of content that are successful on the Web, a thorough grasp of the competitive landscape and a passion for and an understanding of news, business, entertainment, lifestyle and popular culture in general. You should be flexible, quick-thinking, energetic, efficient, and able to work independently under pressure while maintaining attention to detail. Excellent interpersonal skills are a must, for interacting with fellow editors and employees throughout Yahoo!
Responsibilities:
* Manages and provides content for special editorial and sales driven initiatives and channels. These range from editorial news seasonal projects to niche products such as cars and travel.
* Maintain events diary and planning and executing event programming in consultation with the editor in chief and the sales team.
* Making relevant editorial choices, crafting appealing headlines and teaser copy, choosing and prepare appropriate imagery.
* Creat user experiences which encourage repeat use and adoption
* Understanding the Yahoo! audience, and its interests, and feeding these back into product plans and tactics
* Manage competing priorities, budgeting time
* Providing editorial support where required, particularly on content provision, acquisition and sourcing.
* Contribute ideas to the content and product development process for various editorial initiatives and projects.
* Contribute ideas on commissioning and content acquisition to the editors and sales teams.
* Provide and edit articles and content on a daily basis, develop feature and special execution ideas.
* Meet targets and deliver on traffic performance indicators
* Work closely with internal product, packaging and marketing teams as well as external content partners.
* Identify new content sources and support business development on content acquisition
* Reports to Editorial Ops Manger for Yahoo! Middle East.
Requirements:
* Language skills: Fluent Arabic (written and spoken)
* Very good knowledge of modern standard Arabic grammar
* Experience in editing, re-writing in an Arabic media production environment.
* English highly competent (written and spoken)
* A solid grounding in basic principles of writing for the Web and editing experience in a dynamic online editorial environment (3 years of experience)
* A thorough understanding of editorial best practices and priorities
* A keen understanding of news, business, entertainment and popular culture
* Demonstrable headline writing, image selection and content packaging skills
* Experience with online publishing tools
* University degree or equivalent required
Contact Information:
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