Search Editor (Jakarta Raya)

Yahoo! Inc is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! provides online and mobile products and services essential to users' lives. As one of the most established and trusted brands, Yahoo! offers a full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo! is indeed the leading online destination across the Southeast Asia region which includes Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam. Yahoo! is also the region’s leading international media. In Southeast Asia, Yahoo! key focus is on media, search and wireless businesses whilst delivering a trusted and relevant interactive experience, whether from a PC or through wireless device, such as a mobile phone.

Responsibilities

·Categorizing web content under existing taxonomy and helping determine its evolution.

·Describe web sites to effect concise abstracts useful to search engines.

·Making judgments about the quality and appropriateness of web content sources.

·Performing relevance tests designed to measure data quality across Yahoo’s search products.

·Analyzing user behavior and making recommendations based on those observations.

·Communicating directly with customers via email about web content submitted to Yahoo!

·Able to program journalistic content working in cooperation with the news editors and product managers

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Experience

·A minimum of two years’ working experience.

Requirements

·Bachelor’s degree preferably in Arts/Social Sciences.

·Excellent written and spoken English.

·Excellent written and spoken Bahasa Indonesia.

·Extensive awareness of American culture, pop culture, and general knowledge.

·Extensive internet experience either from a previous job or personal use.

·Minimum typing speed of 35 wpm or more.

Competencies

·Acute knowledge of current affairs and trends

·Knowledge of search engines, searching the Web, and online trends.

·Able to describe Search experiences in their market.

·Familiarity with online social networking products.

·Ability to multitask on several projects including setting and structuring priorities.

·Experience in reading and classifying large volumes of data into complex classification schemes a plus.

·Ability to assess authoritativeness, topical pertinence, and overall quality of web pages.

·Ability to work independently within a team setting.

·Ability to think in the abstract

·Familiarity with HTML, XML, and basic web page design is a plus.

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Interested? Email your resume now to Zul Rejab at zoso@yahoo-inc.com

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