Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.
A Little About Us
We are a fast-paced global service organisation providing human evaluation and diagnostic services including content management and programming, structured data extraction, 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 LLM skills and online 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.
You Must Have
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.
Fluency in English.
A second or third European language is a plus.
A strong knowledge of the language, culture, everyday life, and current events in the U.S.
Technical aptitude and/or LLM experience
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!
Important notes for your attention
Applications:
All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo. We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications. No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.
Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you. Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.
Offer Distributions:
Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails.
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.
Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.