Senior Designer, New York Media

Job Description: New York Media, owner of New York Magazine, nymag.com, The Cut, Vulture, Grub Street, Intelligencer, and Strategist, is seeking a Designer to join our in-house brand and marketing studio. We are looking for someone to:

-Help conceptualize, design, and create for a variety of platforms and formats including branding, event graphics, ad campaigns, internal collateral, promotional materials, presentations and custom content stories

-Play a lead role in determining the look and feel of any outfacing products that support New York and its web verticals

-Be a strategic problem solver and think from a pre- and post-sale point of view by playing a role in pitching new ideas to executing concepts into strong visuals

-Other design responsibilities may include creation of: infographics, motion graphics, animating visuals and typography for web and video, digital ad units and other unique one-offs

-Other responsibilities as assigned by manager or supervisor

Job Requirements:

-Bachelor’s degree 
-5+ years in design role in an agency, publisher or client setting
-Experience working in branding or with branded content is a big plus
-Strong design foundation and understanding of the principles of typography and layout
-Well-versed in motion design and after effects
-Solid understanding of HTML5/CSS capabilities and limitations as well as responsive design
-Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly After Effects and Photoshop
-Experience working with a variety of brands, including entertainment, beauty/fashion, culture, politics and food
-Retouching experience a plus
-Must be comfortable in fast-paced environment and able to solve problems quickly
-Must be detail-driven and able to manage the production of their work

Type of Job: Design

City: New York, NY

Region: New York

Duration: Full-time

Company: New York Media

About Our Company: New York Media energizes people around shared interests, igniting important conversations with a cosmopolitan point of view and providing the map to shrewdly navigate a fast-moving culture. We want to be a beloved habit for people around the world, with groundbreaking journalism at our core. By connecting our consumers to indispensable content and experiences, our media becomes the starting point from which we can provide innovative offerings across multiple platforms.

New York Media’s products are the perfect platforms to connect our readers with brands they’ll love. The Sales & Marketing team is passionate about working with our clients to help them find and create the best advertising and custom content solutions, and the marketing partnerships we build help enable New York Media’s growth.

How to Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/nymedia/8d11dc4b-4545-473d-b461-b9b293e012b8?lever-origin=applied&lever-source%5B%5D=SPD

Photo Editor, The Knot Magazine

Job Description: 
ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:
The Knot Magazine seeks a talented, creative and enthusiastic Photo Editor to join our team. You're a match if you are resourceful, have a strong work ethic, are able to juggle a large volume of projects in a fast-paced environment & work within tight deadlines. This individual should be comfortable working independently and in a team identifying what works visually in the print and wedding industry. You will report directly to the Art Director and work closely with the art and editorial teams. This position is an in-office role based our of our NYC office; no remote.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Independently photo edit and research images for magazine production (original content articles and Real Weddings articles)

• Work closely with the Real Weddings team to understand trends in wedding photography, style, and brand identity

• Assist with fashion photo shoot production, model casting and administrative tasks

• Produce and pick up styled shoots within quarterly magazine deadlines

• Manage daily workflow of magazine files including tracking and releasing of hi-res images to production, as well as archival of final art

• Contributes to other editorial department creative needs or projects, as needed

• Collaborate with editorial team on story development and visual concepts

• Responsible for caption and credit information in layouts

• Manage stock photography accounts and ensure proper usage of images

• Knowledgeable of contracts, usage rights, photo licensing and copyright laws

• Assist with maintaining budget for photos and shoots

WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:

• You deeply understand our users and put them at the center of everything you do. You aim to serve and delight them every day.

• You are respectful and act with the highest integrity. If you see something that isn’t right, you say something.

• You ask questions to understand a perspective and are comfortable respectfully challenging assumptions. You are not turned off by constructive conflict to get to the right answer.

• You set clear ambitious goals. You anticipate obstacles, persevere, and are accountable for your commitments.

• You aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo and know that there’s no such thing as failure if you learn from it.

• You seek out feedback and never settle in your quest to grow and develop. By being here, you make our company stronger.

WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT US:
The Knot Worldwide offers a unique employee experience and we are deeply proud of our award-winning culture. From flexible vacation and generous parental leave benefits to promoting wellness and giving back to our community, we believe in happiness above all else—in and out of the office.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years editorial or photo experience. Experience and contacts in the wedding industry a plus 

• Passionate about photography, fashion, style and all things weddings

• Savvy to source images from stock, PR contacts, wedding photographers, and other user-generated sources

• Well-versed in social media platforms and tools

• Proficient in Adobe Suite, K4, and Google Docs; willingness to adapt to evolving applications (such as Slack and other social hosting services)

• Understanding of metadata strategy with archival best practices

• Highly organized, driven and assertive with an engaging and positive manner

• Ability to multitask, prioritize and thrive in a fast-paced environment

Type of Job: Photo Editor

City: New York City

Region: New York

Duration: Full-time

Company: The Knot Worldwide

About Our Company: Here at The Knot Worldwide, we believe in doing work that matters. In 15 countries around the world, our leading family of brands (The Knot, WeddingWire, Bodas, GigMasters, The Bump, How They Asked, Lasting, and more) inspire, inform, and celebrate our communities as they move through life’s milestones. From the proposal to creating a home, and starting a family together, we’re there for every step of the journey. Our couples and business partners depend on us. They're all in. So are we.

The Knot Worldwide provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability. In addition to federal law requirements, The Knot Worldwide complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. The Knot Worldwide expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

Benefits: Traditional & Non-traditional

How to Apply: Please apply at the following link: https://grnh.se/1c8952d31

Designer, Segal Savad

Job Description: Looking for an on-site freelance designer that can help with project management, production, advertorial design, and corporate print design. Our office is located in downtown NYC. The duration could last for weeks, months, or ultimately full time. Working alongside the Creative Director, your responsibilities will include project management, editorial, advertorial, marketing, and corporate collateral.

Job Requirements:
Desired Skills and Experience:
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite software
• A great communicator with a desire for client-facing communication
• Editorial or magazine marketing, brochures and print experience a plus
• Comfortable taking a project from conception to completion, including preparing files for print and a good understanding of production
• Extremely organized and detailed with excellent project and time management skills
• BFA preferably with an emphasis in Graphic Design, Editorial, Communication Design

Type of Job: Primarily Print Creative

City: New York

Region: NY

Duration: Freelance

Company: Segal Savad

About Our Company: Formed in 2000, Segal Savad is a full-service brand communication and digital experience consultancy. We integrate design, language, data and technology across traditional and emerging channels to empower our clients and support their growth. 

As an award-winning boutique agency, Segal Savad provides a nimble, efficient and collaborative approach to marketing communications integrated across a complete user journey. Based in New York City, we support well-known brands across the US and the world.

Contact Name: Johanna Savad

Contact Email: info@segalsavad.com

How to Apply: Please only apply to info@segalsavad.com

Motion Graphics Designer, The California Sunday Magazine + Pop-Up Magazine

Job Description: We’re looking for someone special to join our design team. You will bring life to print, digital, and live stories through motion graphics, video-editing, and collaborations with artists, photographers, musicians, and filmmakers. This position is based in San Francisco and will report directly to the Creative Director.

You should view yourself as a problem solver. You need context to be effective with your solutions. For you, design is more than pretty pictures — clarity, purpose, and meaning are important. You understand who the audience is and what is appropriate. You take feedback as a process and a means to build something even better. There is purpose in every design decision. You have a strong foundation of design principles and possess sophisticated typographic sensibilities. Beauty is never the goal, but is always part of the solution.

If you like to challenge the expected, appreciate the beauty of design that’s invisible, have an eagerness to learn in a collaborative environment, have a point of view, and respect other points of view, we want to talk to you.

Job Requirements: Applicants should have 1-5 years of editorial and/or brand experience with a passion for the creative potential of live, digital, and print media. 

Expert knowledge of After Effects, Final Cut Pro, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator is required.

Type of Job: Motion Graphics

City: San Francisco

Region: California

Duration: Full-Time

Company: The California Sunday Magazine + Pop-Up Magazine

About Our Company: Pop-Up Magazine is a live magazine, a series of new, live-scored, multimedia stories performed by writers, radio producers, photographers, and filmmakers at large theaters across the country, like Lincoln Center and BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, and the Warner Theatre and Lincoln Theater in Washington DC. We also publish The California Sunday Magazine, named 2018 Magazine of the Year by the Society of Publication Designers, and a finalist for this year's National Magazine Award for Design and Photography.

How to Apply: Please upload a cover letter, resume, and sample of your work here:
https://californiasunday.applytojob.com/apply/hZMeLZCTMM/Motion-Graphics-Designer-PopUp-Magazine-And-The-California-Sunday-Magazine

Senior Product Designer, New York Media

Job Description: Great design and user experience are essential to our ability to connect with our readers, and the product design team plays an important role in what New York Media creates, ensuring that our products are engaging, useful, and beautiful.

As a Product Designer, you'll play an important part of the design process at New York Media, crafting designs that support readers, business, and the editorial voice of New York. The role turns design strategy & insights into elegantly designed products & experiences, and inspires the organization by showing/prototyping what is possible before it is built.

Job Requirements:

• 4-7 Years Experience

• Collaborate on projects spanning a broad range including site-wide responsive template designs, home page redesigns, special editorial features, rebranding of existing verticals, and social media templates.

• Work through design problems from beginning to end: translating research insights into ideas that form disruptive new products and features, then sketching and prototyping these ideas to quickly assess viability, and design detailed interaction behaviors.

• Create and iterate on design projects across the entire product life cycle and multiple product launches.

• Evaluate the success of existing products and features, and develop designs to support business objectives.

• Maintain other responsibilities as needed.

Type of Job: Digital Design

City: New York, NY

Region: NYC

Duration: Full-Time

Company: New York Media

About Our Company: New York Media is the parent company behind New York Magazine, Vulture, the Cut, Intelligencer, Grub Street, and the Strategist. New York Media energizes people around shared interests, igniting important conversations with a cosmopolitan point of view and providing the map to shrewdly navigate a fast-moving culture. We want to be a beloved habit for people around the world, with groundbreaking journalism at our core. By connecting our consumers to indispensable content and experiences, our media becomes the starting point from which we can provide innovative offerings across multiple platforms.

How to Apply: Submit applications to https://jobs.lever.co/nymedia/838c843d-91aa-4817-8d24-e4a4ea15240b?lever-origin=applied&lever-source%5B%5D=SPD

Art Director, The Lily

Job Description: The Washington Post’s Emerging News Products team has an immediate opening for an Art Director on The Lily. This role requires a well-rounded visual journalist who can design, illustrate and art direct across The Lily’s platforms.

Job Requirements: We are looking for someone who understands The Lily’s brand and is excited to design within our established visual voice. This person must be highly organized and able to produce quality work in a fast-paced environment. On any given day, you will be expected to design or illustrate, share images for several stories, plan Instagram posts and work on special projects.

Art directors on The Lily work closely with the rest of our team, so a collaborative spirit is a must. For example, you may work with our video editor to create graphics for a series, or our multiplatform editors to design our twice-weekly newsletter, Lily Lines. We are looking for a designer who is excited to contribute ideas. In the past, our designers’ ideas have included a mural for International Women’s Day and a zine for The Lily’s first anniversary.

The right candidate has experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript and Adobe After Effects. Proficiency in Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator is expected. Candidates should have a portfolio demonstrating a strong use of typography, photo-editing skills, the creation of original illustration and experience directing illustrators.

This position is based in our Washington newsroom and is not eligible for remote work.

Type of Job: Digital

City: Washington

Region: D.C.

Duration: Full-Time

Company: The Washington Post

About Our Company: The Washington Post is one of America's major daily newspapers.

How to Apply: Interested candidates should send a resume and a cover letter explaining your strengths and six links to recent work to Amy King (amy.king@washpost.com), Amy Cavenaile (Amy.Cavenaile@washpost.com) or Tracy Grant (tracy.grant@washpost.com) by April 19. Please use the subject line “THE LILY ART DIRECTOR: YOUR NAME.”