Senior Designer, Digital, House Beautiful

Job Description: HOUSE BEAUTIFUL seeks a curious and creative Senior Designer. You are an experienced designer who’s eager to take the lead on our digital platforms (website and social media, etc), as well as design layouts for our magazine. We are one team—print and digital—everyone contributing to the brand as a whole. 

The Senior Designer works alongside editors, photo editors, and digital/social media producers, to create inventive design solutions. You are expected to develop a strong understanding of our digital and print platforms, including their editorial goals and engagement objectives. This is a digital-first position with some print responsibilities.

This position reports to the Design Director and is located in New York City.

Duties 
• Under direction from the Design Director, take the lead on all digital design including an upcoming redesign of HouseBeautiful.com
• As lead designer, work with the Design Director and editorial team to develop top-level visual solutions
• Create digital designs, animations, icons, logos, newsletters and layouts
• Commission original artwork, including illustrations, infographics, icons, and animations 
• Art direct and design FOB and feature layouts

Job Requirements:
• A strong portfolio of work designing across a range of platforms: digital, print, and social.
• Excellent typography and layout skills. 
• 5+ years combined experience working in a digital and print editorial setting is preferred
• Demonstrated experience commissioning original artwork 
• Excellent communication skills 
• Thorough understanding of digital production processes and capabilities.
• Proficiency in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator 
• Experience using Sketch, HTML, and CSS are a plus 
• Illustration skills are a plus

Type of Job: Design/Illustration/Digital

City: New York, NY

Region: Greater New York Area

Duration: Freelance-to-Full-Time

Company: Hearst/House Beautiful

About Our Company: House Beautiful is the definitive guide to great design. We want our brand to be a meeting place for ideas, from great designers and trustworthy brands—so that our audience feels empowered to make those dreams a reality. Hearst is one of the world's largest media brands with 25 U.S. titles and over 300 international editions.

Contact Name: Marc Davila

Contact Email: Marc.Davila@hearst.com

How to Apply: Send cover letter, résumé, portfolio link, and any other links that showcase your work to Marc.Davila@hearst.com

Art Director, DuJour Media

Job Description: 
- Conceptualize and art-direct photo shoots 
- Design FOB departments and features
- Strong organizational and time management skills; proven ability to juggle multiple projects, plan ahead and hit deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to talk through editorial ideas in a lively, collaborative environment
- Work with photo department and managing editor to plan and produce photo shoots
- Strong network of industry connections across photography, illustration and infographic designers

Job Requirements:
-Minimum 5-10 years editorial experience
-Experience using InDesign and Photoshop

Type of Job: Design

City: New York

Region: New York

Duration: Full-time

Company: DuJour Media

About Our Company: DuJour is a luxury lifestyle media company celebrating fashion, travel, art, entertainment and culture, reaching the nation’s most affluent and influential readers and communities.

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401K

Contact Name: Kim Peiffer

Contact Email: kim.peiffer@dujour.com

How to Apply: Email resumes to kim.peiffer@dujour.com

Snapchat Discover Designer, The Washington Post

Job Description: The Washington Post’s Emerging News Products team has an immediate opening for a designer to work on our daily Snapchat Discover edition. This role requires a well-rounded visual journalist who has experience working in Adobe After Effects.

Job Requirements: Top applicants are skilled in motion design, typography and conceptual illustration. This visual journalist will be responsible for helping to bring to life traditional stories that have been reimagined for a Snapchat audience. Experience working in a fast-paced and live news environment is critical.

It is essential that this person be a team player who is excited about working in a highly collaborative environment. It also will help to have a spirit of adventure, as we’ll be experimenting with new approaches on emerging platforms. This position will require working a Sunday through Thursday shift.

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

Type of Job: Digital Editorial Design

City: Washington

Region: DC

Duration: Full-time

Company: The Washington Post

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

Contact Name: Amy King

Contact Email: amy.king@washpost.com

How to Apply: Interested candidates should send a resume, cover letter explaining your strengths and a portfolio with six examples of recent work to Amy King (amy.king@washpost.com), Chris Barber (chris.barber@washpost.com) and Tracy Grant (tracy.grant@washpost.com) by April 12. Please use the subject line “SNAPCHAT DESIGNER: YOUR NAME.”

Freelance Graphic Designer, Environmental Non-profit

Job Description: The designer creates solutions for a wide variety of channels including social media, web, and print. The candidate will be a person who can access creativity while maintaining brand guidelines throughout all materials she or he creates. This position will report to the Art Director.

Job Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience in a competitive, deadline-driven, and professional design environment.
• Use Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop) and techniques to design and produce print and digital content.
• Must possess a definitive creative vision, a high level of design sophistication, a keen eye for photography, and strong typography skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail as well as the ability to prioritize and juggle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience in editorial print design and corporate communications.
• Proven ability to conceptualize and design standard communications, including brochures, posters, manuals, annual reports, etc.
• Experience designing graphics for all social media platforms, email newsletters and other forms of digital communications.
• Ability to present all types of data in visual formats including infographics and data visualizations.
• Experience with motion graphics a plus, but not required.
• Conceptualize with art and photography directors and work closely with contributing illustrators.
• Work collaboratively with teams throughout the organization to execute design for various campaigns and projects.
• Strong verbal and written skills required.

Type of Job: Design

City: NYC

Region: New York

Duration: Temporary full-time

Company: Environmental non-profit

Contact Name: Alex Spacher

Contact Email: Bmulligan123@gmail.com

How to Apply: Please email your resume with a link to your online portfolio or website.

Freelance Designer, Fairchild Fashion Media

Job Description: Fairchild Fashion Media, a division of Penske Media Corp., is looking for a freelance designer to work with our New York office team. In this fast-paced integrated editorial, marketing and experiential environment, the designer will create unique and compelling print and digital designs and collateral on a wide-ranging scope of programs and platforms.

This position will report directly to the Creative Director.

You will:

• Assist with design, production and printing of editorial, reports, advertising and marketing promotional campaigns, sales materials, and program/event collateral and signage

• Coordinate projects including native advertising executions, conceptual mocks, email blasts, digital advertising units, engaging sharable social content, and branded print and digital content

• Work with the brand’s team to manage the workflow of designated projects

• Maintain a good source of creative resources

Job Requirements:
You have:  

• Related BA/BS degree and 1+ year’s related work experience

• Thorough knowledge of conceptual design—both for the digital and print market, including the production processes and procedures

• Expert use of Adobe Creative Suite; PP and AE knowledge a plus

• Knowledge of UX best practices, html/CSS, and product/prototype software [Sketch, Xd, etc…]

• Ability to set and manage multiple concurrent projects and meet their deadlines

• Proven people and project management/organizational skills; able to work in a team environment and within flexible work parameters

• Must have excellent communication skills

• Must have your own computer and relevant software to work mostly offsite

• Must be flexible to attend onsite meetings if required

Type of Job: Freelance Designer

City: New York

Region: New York

Duration: Freelance

Company: Fairchild Fashion Media / PMC

About Our Company: 
About PMC: Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is a leading digital media and information services company whose award-winning content attracts a monthly audience of more than 180 million and empowers more than 1 million global CEOs and business thought-leaders in markets that impact the world. Our dynamic events, data services, and rich content entertain and educate today’s fashion, retail, beauty, entertainment and lifestyle sectors. Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles with additional offices in 11 countries worldwide, Penske Media is the way global influencers are informed, connected, and inspired. To learn more about PMC and its brands, visit pmc.com.

How to Apply: https://pmc.com/careers-listing/

Senior Designer, HBR Magazine

Job Description: With minimal oversight and guidance, the senior designer should be able to create brand appropriate packaging and design in line with the established creative vision, for all pages and templates within the HBR magazine and its affiliated products. In addition to 6 regular issues of HBR, the senior designer will play a critical strategic role in managing the design and production of 4 single topic issue magazines (under the OnPoint brand) and the occasional SIP (Special Issue). 

Responsibilities include: 
• concept and ideation,
• stakeholder communication, 
• defining and attending meetings, 
• visual research, 
• creative assignments, 
• digital planning, 
• designing pages and templates 
• production mark ups and color correction, 
• purchasing, billing and invoicing,
• identifying, managing, directing and supporting external freelance designers 

They should have a high level of competency working in InDesign and K4 publishing software, and an ability to work with some level of proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop. They should have a minimum 5+ years of print art direction and design experience, ideally at an editorially driven publication. 

Digital: 
The magazine senior designer should have a deep understanding of how the print creative content scales into a variety of social and digital platforms. This may include assigning (or creating) supplementary animation and video, assigning alternate versions of art, and having a deep familiarity with sizes, aspect ratios and content requirements for relevant platforms and devices. 

Data Visualization: 
The senior designer should have a working knowledge of a variety of information graphics structures, be able to discern whether or not data and the underlying message will translate visually, be able to engage in conversations regarding the relevance of data visualization in the context of a story. 

Team Culture: 
We work in a collaborative community that, at its core, is defined by a friendly, collegial and respectful approach to what we do. The right candidate will be able to work directly with editors, authors, marketing, ad sales, senior management, and all other partners within the organization in a way that is constructive and fosters an environment of good will. 

They should be able to work independently and with autonomy, while also intuitively incorporating feedback into their work. They should be able to identify priorities, manage their time wisely and make effective and relevant decisions based on an understanding of the overall business and the goals of the editorial and creative teams. 

They should care deeply about quality and execution, have the ability to make compelling arguments in support of a vision, and have the maturity to see the value in multiple solutions and multiple points of view.

Job Requirements:

• 5 years experience as a print designer in a media and content company preferably in magazines or newspapers. 

• Must have advanced experience in Adobe InDesign and K4 publishing software, and some competency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Type of Job: Design

City: Boston, MA

Region: MA

Duration: Full-time

Company: Harvard Business Publishing

About Our Company: Harvard Business Review 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 via this link: http://harvardbusiness.force.com/careers/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0x1Y000007BdISQA0&tSource=