Assistant Photo Editor (Contract), Texas Monthly

Job Description: Texas Monthly is looking for a photo assistant to aid in producing visual solutions for editorial stories. This is a contract position, with the potential to evolve into a full-time role. This position is based in Austin, Texas.

Job Requirements:
Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Update and maintain archival story art and layout (primary focus for 6+ months)
• Assist in photo research
• Assign photography for Texasmonthly.com
• Assist in propping, styling, and location scouting for photo shoots
• Retouch and resize images for print and web
• Perform general QA duties and styling for Texasmonthly.com
• Assist in managing contracts, w-9s, and invoices
• Assist in video editing

Successful candidates possess the following skills/abilities:
• Keen eye for photography and illustration
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Ability to multitask as well as work under pressure and maintain a calm attitude
• In-depth knowledge of Adobe Photoshop
• Proficiency in other Adobe CS programs
• Proficiency in Wordpress
• InCopy, K4, HTML, and Sketch experience are a plus

Type of Job: Photo

City: Austin

State/Country: Texas

Duration: Full-time contract, with potential to turn into staff position

Company: Texas Monthly

About Our Company: Texas Monthly has chronicled life in contemporary Texas since 1973, reporting on vital issues such as politics, the environment, industry, and education. The magazine is known for astute political commentary and compelling longform narrative nonfiction. As a leisure guide, it continues to be the indispensable authority on the Texas scene, covering music, the arts, travel, restaurants, museums, and cultural events with its insightful recommendations. Texas Monthly may be a regional publication, but the region it covers is a virtual nation unto itself.

Contact Name: Anna Asie

Contact Email: resumes@texasmonthly.com

How to Apply: Please email a cover letter, resume, and portfolio to resumes@texasmonthly.com, with the job title and a mention of SPD in the subject line.

Picture Editor, McKinsey & Company

Job Description:
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH: You will be based in our New York, Boston, Washington DC, or Atlanta office as part of our global publishing and brand design team. This team creates high impact and high value content and digital experiences. Reporting to the head of publishing design and the lead brand designer, you will collaborate with McKinsey’s editorial and brand communications teams to create visual content and user experiences that engage our audience across digital and print channels. You will collaborate closely with other designers and external vendors. You will also partner with stakeholders across our organization, advising on best-practice which often involves advocating for/providing a fact-base to justify visual recommendations.

WHAT YOU'LL DO: You will develop visuals that will capture readers' attention and deepen their engagement, giving our content high visual impact and making it easy for the readers to digest. In this role, you will create compelling visual communications that build on McKinsey’s premium brand. You will maintain our visual identity to always be on-brand and visually distinctive. You will anticipate trends and set and maintain our overall visual style as well as articulate reasons for selecting art and/or artists. You will manage multiple projects simultaneously in an agile development environment. This means working on projects in close collaboration with other team members and managing production and delivery of project deliverables that you commit to. You lead discussion of ideas for imagery with the editor and other colleagues and sketch ideas to solidify a shared understanding when planning visuals. You will be tapped into a valuable network of vendors and artists and become a resource when it comes to sourcing new talent for projects. You will execute proper image organization and naming conventions as well as maintain good file hygiene across all projects. You will also manage the art budget for purchasing visuals.

Job Requirements:
• Bachelor of arts in photography, design or similar degree
• 8-10 years of experience; ideally 5 years in an editorial or agency setting
• Experience commissioning and licensing art from photographers (and illustrators is a plus) from a diverse network of artists and photographers across many visual genres
• Passion for publishing imagery and have deep experience with photo research and editing
• Collaborative attitude with interest and aptitude for working across tenures and role types, countries and cultures; ability to successfully navigate and thrive in a complex organization
• Outstanding visual thinker; ability to quickly grasp a complex brief and meet it with conceptual, creative and on-brand ideas
• Proficient in the essentials of photo retouching with advanced knowledge of Adobe imaging software (e.g. Photoshop, Bridge)
• Ability to quickly communicate via sketches, annotated visuals and low-fidelity designs
• Outstanding drive and process management skills with a hands-on, action-oriented style
• Skilled at relationship building and influencing; able to effectively balance diplomacy with tenacity when working to gain alignment on goals
• Excellent problem solving and ability to implement sound judgement knowing when to make independent decisions and when to collaborate
• Experience working with Microsoft Office Suite especially Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to work across time zones as needed

Type of Job: Photo/Imaging

City: Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Washington DC

State/Country: United States

Duration: Full-time

Company: McKinsey & Company

About Our Company: McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. We are the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. We work with leading organizations across the private, public and social sectors. Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to address problems that no one else can. We have deep functional and industry expertise as well as breadth of geographical reach. We are passionate about taking on immense challenges that matter to our clients and, often, to the world. We work with our clients as we do with our colleagues. We build their capabilities and leadership skills at every level and every opportunity. We do this to help build internal support, get to real issues, and reach practical recommendations. We bring out the capabilities of clients to fully participate in the process and lead the ongoing work.

How to Apply: Apply here: https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/pictureeditor-47186

Lead Designer - Publishing, McKinsey & Company

Job Description:
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH: You will be based in our Atlanta, Boston, New York or Washington office as part of our global publishing team.
This team creates high impact and high value publishing content and digital experiences. Reporting to the head of publishing design with a close working relationship with the head of UX design, you will collaborate with McKinsey’s editorial team to create visual content and user experiences that engage our audience across digital channels. You will collaborate closely with other designers, product team, development team, and vendors. You will also partner with stakeholders across our organization advising on best-practice UX which often involves advocating for/providing a fact-base to justify design recommendations.

WHAT YOU'LL DO: You will be a key part of the team that invents and crafts McKinsey’s highly-regarded publishing content.
In this role, you will know best practices for all aspects of design across digital communication channels and you will draw from extensive experience creating best-in-class designs for top-tier publishing brands. You will create compelling visual communications that build on McKinsey’s premium brand. And you will continually raise our team’s game by creating and directing the creation of visual design and UX that expand and deepen our audience’s engagement with our content. You will develop content and products that adhere to a corporate visual identity and work within brand guidelines knowing when to ‘push’ designs to achieve stand-out results.You will provide the UX, UI, IA, and visual design expertise necessary to develop the highest quality digital products for Mckinsey.com. You will advocate for best-practice UX and brand implementation, leveraging your expertise in projects as well as documenting and communicating UX decisions. You will lead key projects and initiatives for the publishing team with tasks including developing visual prototypes, wireframing, creating high-fidelity graphics, conducting landscape analysis and desk-based research including user testing, etc. when appropriate and basic metrics analysis.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor of arts in design or similar degree
• 8-10 years of experience; ideally 5 years in an agency setting
• Clear understanding of web/mobile content and UX best practices
• Interaction design skills including use of a diverse set of software such as Sketch, Adobe CS, InVision or comparable tools
• Excellent knowledge of rapid prototyping tools such as Sketch, Invision, etc.
• Experience working with project management software such as Basecamp and Trello; working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite especially Excel and Powerpoint
• Ability to quickly grasp a complex brief and meet it with creative and on-brand ideas
• Outstanding drive and process management with a hands-on, action-oriented style
• Excellent problem solving and ability to implement sound judgement knowing when to make independent decisions and when to collaborate
• Collaborative attitude with interest and aptitude for working across tenures and role types, countries and cultures; ability to successfully navigate and thrive in a complex organization
• Skilled at relationship building and influencing; able to effectively balance diplomacy with tenacity when working to gain alignment on goals
• Ability to work across time zones as needed

Type of Job: Digital Design

City: Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Washington, DC

State/Country: United States of America

Duration: Full-time

Company: McKinsey & Company

About Our Company: McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. We are the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. We work with leading organizations across the private, public and social sectors. Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to address problems that no one else can. We have deep functional and industry expertise as well as breadth of geographical reach. We are passionate about taking on immense challenges that matter to our clients and, often, to the world. We work with our clients as we do with our colleagues. We build their capabilities and leadership skills at every level and every opportunity. We do this to help build internal support, get to real issues, and reach practical recommendations. We bring out the capabilities of clients to fully participate in the process and lead the ongoing work.

How to Apply: Apply here: https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/leaddesignerpublishing-47185

Editorial Art Director, Medium

Job Description: Medium’s mission is to help people deepen their understanding of the world and discover ideas that matter. We are building a place where ideas are judged on the value they provide to readers, not the fleeting attention they can attract for advertisers. We are creating the best place for reading and writing on the internet—a place where today’s smartest writers, thinkers, experts, and storytellers can share big, interesting ideas.

Medium is looking for an enterprising Art Director who is passionate about editorial design and loves to develop smart, elegant visual solutions that are compelling to readers on desktop, mobile or social. You would be part of a small team responsible for creating and commissioning art for our in-house publications (GEN, OneZero, Elemental, ZORA, Forge, Marker and LEVEL) as well as other editorial initiatives that support creators on the platform.

Successful candidates will have experience working in an online newsroom/magazine environment collaborating with editors on various topics from personal essays to features and longform investigative pieces. You will also have a portfolio that demonstrates outstanding taste, range, attention to detail, and a proven track record executing complex stories and packages.

The ideal candidate is a highly effective communicator who must be comfortable in a fast-paced, digital startup culture and be ready to get their hands dirty and have fun!

Job Requirements:

What will you do?
-Provide arresting, original, and expressive design solutions for daily posts, feature stories, and special projects for multiple publications.
-Commission original award-winning illustrations, photo illustration, and photography as needed.
-Contribute expertise in one or more of the following areas: Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Motion Graphics/Animation.
-Work with the publications' operations teams to deliver work in a timely and efficient manner.
-Be curious and proactive about exploring new approaches to visual storytelling, as our platform grows and develops over time.

Who are you?
-You have a minimum of 4+ years of experience working in editorial design. You have a rolodex of dynamic and diverse illustrators and creatives you can tap. You are passionate about typography, design, and illustration and are a positive, straightforward and effective communicator.
-You have a strong work ethic and vision to see projects from concept to publish.
-You are versatile and comfortable working in a start-up environment, where speed, flexibility, and experimentation are part of the day-to-day culture.
-You believe that good ideas can come from anywhere. You are proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop and Illustrator).
-You have some experience with designing infographics, After Effects and GIF-making knowledge. Some experience coding in HTML/CSS/Javascript desired, but not required

Type of Job: Editorial Art Director

City: New York or San Francisco

State/Country: United States of America

Duration: Full-time

Company: Medium

About Our Company: Medium’s mission is to help people deepen their understanding of the world and discover ideas that matter. We are building a place where ideas are judged on the value they provide to readers, not the fleeting attention they can attract for advertisers. We are creating the best place for reading and writing on the internet—a place where today’s smartest writers, thinkers, experts, and storytellers can share big, interesting ideas.

How to Apply: Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/medium/480a3f99-db5a-4b36-9540-61d76a2f5415

Art Director, Dwell Magazine

Job Description: The Art Director is responsible for effectively completing complex design projects, including the layout of 6 print issues a year from initial design to print mechanicals, as well as digital initiatives such as website features, email, and marketing promotions.

This role reports to the Creative Director, while working closely with the Photo Director and Editor-in-Chief.

Responsibilities include:
+ Design and production of our flagship publication, Dwell Magazine
+ Help creating innovative layouts, including covers and features, and setting style standards
+ Support creative team developing assets, improving workflow, and meeting goals
+ Oversee the commission of original artwork (including illustrations, icons, and animations) within budgets
+ Strengthen and grow the Dwell brand and visual identity
+ Help evolve a cohesive identity for Dwell.com and social media content franchises (including page templates, photo/illustration treatments, and other defining graphic elements)
+ Propose and iterate on design concepts for print and digital as needed
+ Participates in brainstorming and other idea-generating team sessions

Job Requirements:

• Experience creating layouts for design-centric, visual print publications and building design systems

• Understanding of complex type hierarchies and systems

• Understanding of corporate branding, layout, color, and typography in both print and digital media

• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator

• Strong attention to detail (particularly when it comes to typography)

• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

• An understanding of industry trends, best practices, and emerging user behaviors

• Ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously

• Ability to be flexible and to meet deadlines in a fast paced environment

• Excellent communication and organizational skills

• A highly creative, forward-thinking, innovative mindset

• Positive, reliable, and motivated worth ethic

• Experience with Adobe After Effects and Figma are a plus

• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS

Type of Job: Design

City: New York or San Francisco

State/Country: NY

Duration: Full-time

Benefits: Full package

Company: Dwell Magazine

About Our Company: Dwell is the authoritative source for discovering the best in contemporary home design and for learning how to make your own space a great place to live. Dwell launched as a print magazine in 2000 to bridge the gap between architecture professionals and those interested in home design. With a print magazine published 6 times a year and a robust subscription-based digital platform, it remains an independent publication committed to the ways that architecture and design can improve our lives and our communities. Dwell is a forward thinking brand, optimistically championing the principles of modern design, creativity, humility, diversity, and sustainability.

How to Apply: Apply on company website: https://careers.dwell.com/p/6bca741779b2-art-director

Associate Manager, Social Media, WIRED

Job Description: WIRED is looking for a creative and innovative media talent to join our audience development, social and analytics team. A perfect candidate will know key social media platforms inside and out, and also be clued in to emerging networks. This person will work closely with WIRED’s editors and designers on the optimization of content for WIRED’s social platforms. They will be responsible for writing and publishing social posts to WIRED’s various platforms. This person will work to increase audience engagement, overall social referrals, and the size of WIRED’s loyal audience. They will also be part of the larger Audience Development team at Condé Nast.

Job Requirements:

• Manage and execute posting schedule on several platforms

• Work with editorial staff and designers to frame content packages for social media success

• Ensure all posts are optimized and tracked for performance

• Report weekly on progress and learnings

• Collaborate with social team and editors to improve social headlines and descriptions

• Develop relationships with social managers at other Condé Nast brands within the broader audience development team; gather strategies, product updates and best practices and report them back to WIRED

Type of Job: Social Media

City: New York

State/Country: New York

Duration: Full-time

Company: Condé Nast

About Our Company: Condé Nast is renowned for provocative, influential, award winning content-across brands, across platforms, and across continents. In the United States, Condé Nast publishes 18 consumer magazines, four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps for mobile and tablet devices, all of which define excellence in their categories. The company also owns Fairchild Fashion Media (FFM), whose portfolio of brands serves as the leading source of news and analysis for the global fashion community. Condé Nast has won more National Magazine Awards over the past ten years than all of its competitors combined.

We’re committed to attracting new talent to keep us at the top of our business. If you are looking to be part of a culture of excellence marked by journalistic integrity and superior design, we invite you to explore this career opportunity and see how your talent and aspirations might fit within Condé Nast. Visit CondéNast.com and follow us on Twitter @CondeNastCorp and @CondeNastCareer.

What happens next?
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

How to Apply: Learn more and apply here: https://condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeCareers/job/1-World-Trade-Center-New-York-NY/Associate-Manager--Social-Media---WIRED_R-04723