Content Analyst

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

A Little About Us

We are a fast-paced global service organisation providing human evaluation and diagnostic services including content management and programming, testing and training data, query analysis and insights, and product quality optimisation.

A Lot About You

We're looking for a creative, smart, and versatile generalist with language and technical skills to participate in a variety of projects. You will work on Yahoo Search products, selecting and moderating content, analysing search behaviour, and launching new Yahoo international Search products and features. Using your European language skills and market knowledge, you will contribute to projects that enhance the quality and relevance of Yahoo’s technology.

Your Day

• Curating and featuring content using data and journalistic standards. Making content choices that will engage large audiences across many international markets.

• Classifying diverse unstructured data and communicating analyses of users' wants and needs.

• Partnering with engineers and researchers to provide human-in-the-loop contributions to AI and machine learning, including classification, labelling, and prompt engineering.

• Liaising with engineering and product leads to keep users’ interests at the core of projects.

• Making product feature improvements based on your analysis of the competitive landscape and user needs.

• Effectively communicating ongoing product changes and escalating issues with the appropriate members of the product team.

• Collecting, analysing, and interpreting search data.

• Building lists of keywords, including common misspellings and synonyms, to trigger specialised content.

• Using taxonomy skills to create category structures and classify content.

• Performing Quality Assurance tasks to ensure our products meet functional, linguistic, policy and relevance requirements in European markets.

• Using agile project management methods to manage your work and contribute to setting direction for your team.

• Using GenAI to extend and enhance the impact of human work.

You Must Have

• Knowledge of the language, culture, everyday life, and current events in a second country from this list: France, Germany, Canada, or a Spanish-language country.

• A Bachelor’s degree. No specific subject is required, but candidates have often studied Linguistics, Journalism, Computer Science, Library & Information Science, Information Management, or other related subjects.

• One or more years of related work experience.

• Fluency in English. 

• A strong knowledge of the language, culture, everyday life, and current events in either France or Germany. 

• Technical aptitude — experience with LLMs, Python, HTML, and Javascript are all a plus.

• Attention to detail, flexibility, organisational skills, and an abundance of common sense.

• Strong communication, writing, and decision-making skills.

• Experience working as part of a team to meet objectives.

• The ability to collect, analyse, and interpret data.

• A fascination with the Internet and online culture — you’ll be spending all day with it!

• A flexible schedule: this role will require some work on alternate weekends.

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.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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