Art Director, The Wall Street Journal

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Job Description: The Wall Street Journal is looking for an Art Director who will be responsible for the vision, design and production of the Off Duty weekly feature section.

Job Requirements:
You will:

  • Work with section editors, photo editors and graphic editors to determine how best to tell stories visually and prioritize how to display the stories developing a visual plan that best represents each story

  • Assign work to assistant AD and distribute and manage the weekly workload while providing guidance and feedback

  • Ensure design and layout consistency across the section adhering to and respect established styles

  • Provide art direction for digital presentation of stories

  • Coordinate photoshoots as needed and assign illustrations and manage budget

  • Effectively balance competing priorities and manage time to meet section deadlines

  • Deliver a creative and innovative section that reflects the high journalistic standards of the WSJ

  • Lead the conversation for weekly and future section planning

You have:

  • At least five to seven years experience in feature design

  • A strong portfolio reflecting experience in fashion, travel, lifestyle, autos and real estate

  • A passion for journalism and excellent news judgement

  • Excellent and demonstrable design and typography skills

  • A good understanding of CSS and XML

  • The ability to help reporters and editors understand best practices for visual storytelling

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Good knowledge of responsive design and best practices for building stories for mobile devices

  • Software Requirements: Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, G Suite, Microsoft Word and Excel. Experience with Eidos Media’s Methode publishing system a plus

While you may start remotely, the position will eventually be based in our New York City Office.

Type of Job: Design

City: New York

State/Country: New York

Duration: Full time

Company: The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones and Co., Inc.

About Our Company: Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

How to Apply: To apply, please visit this link on WSJ.jobs: https://wsj.jobs/new-york-ny/art-director/F9F0D780C9C34BBB9DEDCA196B02A379/job/?utm_campaign=.JOBS%20XML%20Feed&utm_medium=.JOBS%20Universe&utm_source=.JOBS%20XML%20Feed-DE

Creative Director, Washingtonian Magazine

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Job Description: Washingtonian is seeking an imaginative, collaborative, and relentlessly ambitious leader for its creative department. For 56 years, the award-winning city magazine for the Washington area has been a home for groundbreaking feature writing, essential service journalism, and arresting visual storytelling. We're looking for someone who can help us take the magazine to the next level, leading a high-caliber team of designers, photo editors, and staff photographers and overseeing all aspects of the brand's visual presence.

Official responsibilities include: brainstorming and designing covers, service packages and features, directing staff and freelance contributors, and managing workflow; working with editors on visually-driven story ideas; managing a budget; and working with the publisher to plan and assign ancillary publications.

Unofficial responsibilities include: helping create a freewheeling creative environment where staffers are encouraged to cook up ambitious ideas big and small; inspiring a talented team of designers who want to step up their game and editorial folks who want to better collaborate; setting and maintaining high visual standards; and having a lot of fun while doing so.

In addition to first-class design skills, our ideal Creative director would possess a large rolodex of artists and photographers who can help make our pages even more exciting. The Creative Director reports to the Editor-In-Chief, and daily collaboration is expected on all areas of brand development.

Job Requirements:

Qualifications:

  • Accomplished print art director and designer with strong attention to detail and love and understanding of typography, design, illustration and photography

  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to talk through editorial ideas in a lively, collaborative, and fast-paced environment

  • Nurture and develop an internal team of award-winning designers, art directors and photo editors

  • Have a strong network of industry connections with illustrators, designers and photographers

  • Works closely to implement designs across all brand platforms, including print, web and video

  • Manages budget and allocates spending for freelance, illustrations and photography

  • Proficiency in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop required; experience with K4 a plus.

  • Web based graphic design experience a plus

  • Must have a minimum of 5 years of magazine experience, a love of typography, a keen eye for complex page design and be a true team player.

Type of Job: Design

City: Washington

State/Country: DC

Duration: Full-Time

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k match

Company: Washingtonian Magazine

About Our Company: Washingtonian is the monthly magazine of the nation's capital. It ranks highly in market penetration among all city and regional magazines, with a paid circulation of 100,000+. Washingtonian is one of the nation's most respected and successful magazines, winning five National Magazine Awards, as well as SPD and CRMA awards.

Contact Name: Anna Savvidis

Contact Email: designjobs@washingtonian.com

How to Apply: Please send your cover letter, résumé, salary requirements, and samples (no larger than 10MB) or a link to your online portfolio to designjobs@washingtonian.com with 'Creative Director' in the subject line.

Designer, HBR Magazine

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Job Description:

The opportunity: The Designer will work with the Design Director to create brand appropriate story packages and designs for all pages and templates within the HBR magazine and its affiliated products. In addition to six regular issues of HBR, the designer will lead the design and production of four single topic issue magazines and the occasional SIP (Special Issue). The designer will also participate in daily images selection, creation, and assigning for stories on HBR.org.

What you’ll do:

  • Design concept and ideation in partnership with stakeholders

  • Visual research

  • Illustration assignments

  • Digital planning

  • Designing pages and templates

  • Production and color-correction mark ups

  • Shipping art to pre-press partners

  • Custom image creation or manipulation for HBR.org

  • Identifying, managing, directing and supporting external free-lance designers and/or co-ops

  • Purchasing, billing and invoicing

Job Requirements:

  • 3+ years of print art direction and design experience, ideally at an editorially driven publication

  • Proficiency working with InDesign and K4 publishing software

  • Some experience working with Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop

  • Understanding of how print creative content scales to digital and social platforms

  • Experience working with tables and basic chart structures

  • Ability to partner with editors and data visualization designers

Type of Job: Design

City: Boston

State/Country: Massachusetts

Duration: Full-time

Company: Harvard Business Publishing

About Our Company: Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) is an idea-driven company with a commitment to improving the practice of management. We're a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University serving customers across three primary markets: educational institutions, corporations, and individual managers.

Harvard Business Review (HBR) is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, books, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review aims to provide professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to help lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

How to Apply: Please apply on the HBP careers site: https://harvardbusiness.secure.force.com/careers/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0x5d00000B2YvjAAF&tSource=

Digital Designer, Alta Journal

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Job Description: Alta Journal is seeking a freelance digital designer to create short videos and animations for its website and social media. Working with the creative director, the designer will uphold a central style guide for social and site needs, as well as communicate the design direction on the site for larger stories. In this position, you will work in partnership with digital and social media editors to create best-in-class visuals for interactive digital features and packages, as well as daily site needs.

Job Requirements:
Responsibilities:

  • Create engaging visual solutions for digital content, with emphasis on creating short animations and videos for website and social media.

  • Work on projects from concept to post-production, making sure we meet brand standards and timelines.

  • Collaborate with editors to design visuals that tell a story and drive engagement

  • Study the marketplace, assessing where AltaOnline.com work stands against competitors’ and ensure that we are ahead of the curve

  • Drive constant improvement around quality, capabilities, and creative innovation

Qualifications:

  • Portfolio showing a range of motion-driven graphics and video created for social media and websites

  • Impeccable journalistic instincts and an unimpeachable commitment to ethics

  • Understands brand guidelines and continues to improve systems over time

  • 3+ years experience creating digital designs, preferably in an editorial environment

  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, emphasis on Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro (or other video editing software), and After Effects.

  • Experience with using a CMS for website publishing, such as Wordpress

  • The ability to work independently and remotely in a fast-paced environment and to efficiently incorporate feedback

Type of Job: Digital designer

City: Remote, preferably located on the West Coast but not required

State/Country: United States

Duration: On-going freelance position, approximately 10 to 15 hours per week

Company: Alta Journal

About Our Company: Alta Journal is an award-winning quarterly print publication and related website that covers culture and literature in California and the West. Each issue features the work of national acclaimed writers, photographers, and illustrators.

Contact Name: John Goecke

Contact Email: john@altaonline.com

How to apply: Qualified candidates should email a resume, cover letter and online portfolio link to creative director John Goecke, john@altaonline.com. Please put Digital Designer in the subject line.

Senior Newsroom Developer, National Geographic

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Job Description: We are hiring two Senior newsroom developers on our digital graphics team at National Geographic for a one-year contract. The Senior newsroom developers will work on stories like our Solar system in action, The active sun, How L.A.'s urban tree canopy reveals hidden inequities, Year in Pictures, and Last whalers. You can see a job description below.

If you'd like to apply, please forward your resume and a portfolio of relevant work to Kennedy Elliott at kennedy.elliott@natgeo.com.

Senior Newsroom Developer
National Geographic – Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution

The Senior Newsroom Developer will guide the creative and technical development of visual stories and data graphics, with a significant focus on dynamic storytelling. This role will handle creative execution and development of some of our most ambitious visual projects and news graphics, as well as create and maintain team tools.

The ideal candidate will be able to create rich digital experiences and visualizations and demonstrate a mastery of front-end web development skills. We will consider candidates who have a strong leaning to either design, editorial reporting, data reporting, building databases, user experience, etc., but strong developer skills are a must.

The responsibilities of this position include:

  • Write elegant front-end code for digital projects, including immersive interactives, data graphics, and team tools

  • Concept, research, report, design, and develop data graphics and visual stories

  • Create digital tools for graphics team and help maintain our graphics template

  • Collaborate with editorial and visual teams to concept and pitch visual stories

  • Research and report data-centered stories

Job Requirements:

Knowledge and skills
Required

  • Front-end web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

  • Data visualization development (d3.js, Adobe Illustrator, WebGL, etc.)

  • Data cleaning and digital tools development (Node.js, Python, etc.)

  • Familiarity with Git

  • Natural problem solver

Preferred

  • Experience with any of these: journalism or related fields; data reporting; Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe Illustrator in particular); GIS software and geospatial data

  • Strong design/UX sensibility

  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

  • Candidates local to Washington, D.C. are preferred, but we will also consider remote candidates

Education and experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

  • 8+ years of experience

Type of Job: Graphics

City: Washington

State/Country: District of Columbia

Duration: Full-time contract

Company: National Geographic

About Our Company: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Contact Name: Kennedy Elliott

Contact Email: kennedy.elliott@natgeo.com

How to Apply: Please forward your resume and a portfolio of relevant work to Kennedy Elliott at kennedy.elliott@natgeo.com.

Graphics Editor, National Geographic

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Job Description:

We are hiring several Graphics editors on our digital graphics team at National Geographic for a one-year contract. The Graphics editors will work on stories like our Solar system in action, The active sun, How L.A.'s urban tree canopy reveals hidden inequities, Year in Pictures, and Last whalers. You can see a job description below.

If you'd like to apply, please forward your resume and a portfolio of relevant work to Kennedy Elliott at kennedy.elliott@natgeo.com.

Graphics Editor/Interactive Storytelling
National Geographic – Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution

The Graphics Editor/Interactive Storytelling will guide the creative and technical development of visual stories and data graphics with a significant focus on data reporting and visual thinking. This role will be involved in all phases of digital projects, and will collaborate with a diverse team of designers, editors, product owners, and developers. The Graphics Editor will work on a variety of visual projects, including news graphics, feature stories, and immersive interactives.

The ideal candidate has solid news judgment and visual literacy, and be able to create visualizations with design tools and/or basic front-end development skills. We will consider candidates who have a strong leaning to either front-end development, visualization, design, data reporting, user experience, etc., but editorial judgment and visualization skills are a must.

The responsibilities of this position include:

  • Concept, research, report, design, and develop data graphics and visual stories

  • Coordinate with news teams to anticipate upcoming news coverage

  • Collaborate with editorial and visual teams to concept and pitch visual stories

  • Research and report data-centered stories

Job Requirements:

Knowledge and skills
Required

  • Basic front-end web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

  • Some data visualization development (D3.js, WebGL, etc.)

  • Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe Illustrator in particular)

  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Preferred

  • Experience in journalism or related fields

  • Data reporting

  • Strong design/UX sensibility

  • Candidates local to Washington, D.C. are preferred, but we will also consider remote candidates

Education and experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

  • 2-5 years of experience

Type of Job: Graphics

City: Washington

State/Country: District of Columbia

Duration: Full-time contract

Company: National Geographic

About Our Company: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Contact Name: Kennedy Elliott

Contact Email: kennedy.elliott@natgeo.com

How to Apply: Please forward your resume and a portfolio of relevant work to Kennedy Elliott at kennedy.elliott@natgeo.com.