Company: YEXT
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001614178-25-000032
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Company: Yext, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 13, 2025</div>

#### Registration No. 333-

### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### FORM S-8

### REGISTRATION STATEMENT

#### UNDER

#### THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

#### YEXT, INC.
<div align='center'>(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)</div>

| Delaware                                         |     | 20-8059772                          |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or 
 organization)                                    |     | -I.R.S. Employer Identification No. |

#### Yext, Inc.

#### 61 Ninth Avenue

#### New York NY 10011
<div align='center'>(212) 994-3900

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)</div>

#### 2016 Equity Incentive Plan

#### 2017 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
<div align='center'>(Full title of the plan)</div>

#### Michael Walrath

#### Chief Executive Officer

#### 61 Ninth Avenue

#### New York, NY 10011
<div align='center'>(212) 994-3900

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</div>

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |     | x |     | Accelerated filer         |     | ¨ |
| Non-accelerated filer   |     | ¨ |     | Smaller reporting company |     | ¨ |
|                         |     |   |     | Emerging growth company   |     | ¨ |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ¨

### EXPLANATORY NOTE
On February 1, 2025, pursuant to the Automatic Share Reserve Increase provision of Section