Designer, Social & Visual Storytelling

Summary

Yahoo is a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online. As a Designer for Social & Visual Storytelling, you will create engaging social content and interactive experiences that enhance Yahoo’s editorial capabilities and audience engagement.

Responsibilities

• Translate Yahoo editorial reporting into engaging social content for Instagram, TikTok and emerging platforms
• Design carousels, story sequences, explainers and visual packages optimized for audience engagement
• Collaborate closely with the Social team on platform strategy, content planning and breaking news coverage
• Develop and evolve Yahoo News and Entertainment’s social visual identity and recurring editorial franchises
• Create scalable templates, toolkits and workflows that support quality content production
• Design interactive editorial experiences using tools such as Ceros and other storytelling platforms
• Create map-based storytelling experiences using Mapbox and related tools
• Design graphics and animations that support short-form video storytelling across multiple platforms
• Explore AI-assisted creative workflows and emerging storytelling technologies
• Experiment with new approaches to content creation, prototyping and audience engagement while maintaining editorial standards and visual quality

Skills

• 3+ years of applicable design and illustration experience
• Strong portfolio demonstrating design and illustration skills with clear examples of social content, data visualization or interactive editorial work
• Experience designing for social platforms, particularly Instagram and TikTok
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Canva
• Familiarity with Ceros, Mapbox, AI-powered creative tools or similar platforms
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
• Passion for journalism, visual storytelling and emerging media formats

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3+ years of applicable design and illustration experience
• Strong portfolio demonstrating design and illustration skills with clear examples of social content, data visualization or interactive editorial work
• Experience designing for social platforms, particularly Instagram and TikTok
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Canva
• Familiarity with Ceros, Mapbox, AI-powered creative tools or similar platforms
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
• Passion for journalism, visual storytelling and emerging media formats

Benefits

• Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare
• A great 401k
• Backup childcare
• Education stipends
• Much (much) more