Motion Designer

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.

Motion Designer, Yahoo Finance
United States of America | Full-Time | Hybrid

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.

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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.

A Little About You

You are a motion designer who leads with design thinking. You know that great animation starts with great composition, and you bring that point of view into every frame. You're equally fluent making show opens feel cinematic and turning a complex market chart into a social moment, and you care about the difference between the two. You work quickly without sacrificing craft, thrive in a collaborative newsroom environment, and bring genuine curiosity about financial storytelling to everything you make. You'll join a small, close-knit design team reporting to the Creative Director of Yahoo Finance, working alongside fellow designers and in daily partnership with our video, editorial, and social teams.

Responsibilities

Video and show design:

• Design and animate graphics for daily and weekly video programming, from market opens and breaking news hits to longer-form feature content.

• Create show packages, opens, transitions, and lower thirds that are polished, on-brand, and editorially appropriate.

• Build reusable motion templates and toolkits that support the video team's daily production needs without sacrificing visual quality.

• Collaborate closely with video producers and editors to ensure motion work integrates seamlessly with footage, pacing, and editorial voice.

Social and promotional animation:

• Animate assets for social platforms, translating editorial stories and market moments into short-form content that stops the scroll.

• Support promotional and marketing animation needs across campaigns, series launches, and tentpole events.

• Contribute to defining the motion language of Yahoo Finance across platforms, helping differentiate our visual identity from competitors.

Collaboration and craft:

• Partner with the Creative Director and fellow designers on larger creative initiatives, contributing motion thinking early in the process and iterating quickly on feedback.

• Advocate for quality and consistency in motion design, helping set a high bar for the work across the team.

Qualifications

• A strong portfolio demonstrating motion graphics work in a video, broadcast, or editorial context, with clear evidence of design thinking behind the animation.

• Expert proficiency in Adobe After Effects, with strong working knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop.

• Solid grasp of design fundamentals including typography, layout, color, and visual hierarchy, applied to motion.

• Experience building motion templates and working within established brand systems.

• Comfortable working at speed in a fast-paced newsroom environment, managing multiple projects against tight deadlines.

• Strong communicator with a low-ego approach to feedback and collaborative iteration.

• A genuine curiosity about financial news and how motion can make complex information feel clear and engaging.

• An openness to exploring AI-powered design tools where they can accelerate your work.

• [Bonus] Experience in broadcast or live video production environments, including familiarity with MOGRT workflows.

• [Bonus] Familiarity with 3D tools such as Blender or Cinema 4D.

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.

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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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