Visuals Editor, POLITICO
/Job Description: POLITICO's Visuals Team is looking for a skilled and curious collaborator to play a key role in art direction and visual storytelling at Politico. As a member of the Visuals Team you'll help us pinpoint visual storytelling opportunities early, be it for an in-house illustration, a graphic element, or an opportunity to bring in a freelance illustrator. You'll have a passion for design problem-solving, where no task is too small, and ideas about how to better leverage existing design patterns — or develop new ones — for our daily work. Each week you'll work on many of our most-read stories leveraging your knowledge of scale, typography and color to create strong visual hierarchy.
This role lies at the intersection of many teams, collaborating closely with reporting and strategy partners across the newsroom to leverage art direction to tell the story of how legal weed destroyed a counter culture icon, or partner with our photo editors and interactive news team to tell the story of Biden's first 100 days. You'll also deploy your skills as a clear and diplomatic communicator, working with artists and their representatives across the globe to ensure we produce high quality editorial art across our platforms.
We want a partner to help us reimagine ways into stories like our summer book's project, and leverage your art direction and design skills to inform visual aesthetic for our guide to Biden's cabinet contenders. In short, we think deeply about design and also have a lot of fun.
Job Requirements:
Fluency in visual standards: image quality, resolution, neatness, precision, typography, hierarchy, use of white space and color
Experience working across teams to craft compelling stories and storytelling formats and an eagerness to participate in team brainstorms around storytelling approach or form
Demonstrated ability to identify story candidates for an illustrated or visual approach and ability to clearly articulate your ideas in meetings and to key stakeholders
Strong portfolio that highlight art directing illustrations with freelancers
Ability to navigate multiple design projects in tandem and work well across teams
An orientation toward problem solving where no design task is too small
Ability to produce photo illustrations for quicker turnarounds
Experience producing a digital ‘art plan’ with visual variety that tells a compelling story
Comfortable taking design direction on deadline while balancing the overall aesthetic of the approach
Experience with basic photo research
Mastery of the Adobe Creative suite
Eagerness to learn or developed skills in html and css
Type of Job: Art direction, design, visual editing
City: Arlington
State/Country: Virginia
Duration: Full-time
Benefits: We value our people. We offer a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package, including health and wellness benefits, commuter and cell phone reimbursements, retirement plans, as well as work-life balance flexibility and opportunities for career development. Click here for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO.
Company: POLITICO
About Our Company: POLITICO strives to be the dominant source for news on politics and policy in power centers across every continent where access to reliable information, nonpartisan journalism and real-time tools create, inform and engage a global citizenry.
We are driven by our values. We are relentless contributors, disruptors of the status quo, collaborators, talent cultivators and DEI stewards. Our culture is defined by grit, total integrity and a prioritization on innovation.
