Digital Designer, Foreign Policy

Job Description: Foreign Policy is seeking a versatile digital designer and visual thinker to help build FP's identity across platforms. We're looking for someone at the intersection of design, technology, and media who knows how to relay information that draws people in and engages them to stay using clean, compelling visuals. You'll work closely with the creative director and our team of developers — in collaboration with analysts, editors, and writers — to craft the design and functionality of data-rich reports, navigational landing pages, and other onsite visuals. The role includes both responsive and static design for our growing research, events, podcast, and editorial divisions.

What you'll do:
• Web design and data visualization: Create digital mockups for ForeignPolicy.com with special emphasis on FP Analytics, our research and consulting division, and its clients, translating analyst reports and data into engaging, elegant, and informative designs for execution by our team of developers.
• Events materials creation: Design static materials for events that anticipate platform-specific needs for use onsite, on social media, and during events. (Experience producing assets for virtual or broadcast events is a bonus.)
• Brand vision: Iterate and improve FP's visual identity across divisions, including FP Analytics, events, podcasts, and editorial, along with other partner and client work.
*This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement

Job Requirements:
• 5+ years of experience producing content-based work for a media organization preferred. Candidates with newsroom or custom marketing experience is ideal.
• A strong design portfolio showcasing art and typographical hierarchy and logic.
• Ability to communicate responsive design solutions to developers, as well as our research, business, and editorial teams, using wireframe mockups or other prototypes.
• Demonstrated experience parsing and translating complicated information into understandable, reader-friendly graphics and experiences across devices.
• A pragmatic but innovative sense of the optimal user experience.
• Familiarity with responsive web development — ideally experienced enough with HTML, CSS, and Javascript to build your own designs.
• Proficiency with Adobe Suite products, especially Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator. (Bonus if you can shift us toward prototypes in Sketch and/or Figma.)
• Ability to be self-led while collaborating closely and nimbly with a small team in a fast-paced news production environment will be essential to success in this role.
We would prefer candidates based in Washington D.C. or New York but will consider other locations.

Foreign Policy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity are committed to an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Type of Job: Digital Design

City: Washington

State/Country: District of Columbia

Duration: Full-time

Benefits: Health, Dental, 401(k), Pension, Vacation, Sick, Disability, Parenting Leave, Gift-matching

Company: Foreign Policy

About Our Company: Foreign Policy is a magazine of global news and ideas. We explain Washington to the world and the world to Washington by covering trends in not only security and diplomacy but also issues surrounding climate change, immigration, politics, and culture. Our FP Analytics research division has been at the forefront of reports on gender parity, 5G, data governance, and the global pandemic response. FP Events convenes leaders in government, business, and civil society for critical and timely conversations on a wide range of topics. Our podcast division is flourishing with a roster of successful shows, including I Spy, Syria’s Lost Generation, and FP Playlist.

How to Apply: https://employment.foreignpolicy.com/o/digital-designer

Associate Magazine Designer, Institute of Management Accountants

Job Description:

• Layout print magazine pages within page templates and typographic style sheets.

• Select stock photography/illustration to express the theme of the article.

• Create tables and graphs from data provided by authors.

• Work with editors to copy fit text and make corrections.

• Prepare final page files to send to printer.

• Prepare articles and content for publication on the website, including

  • Convert text of print page files to Word docs.

  • Convert and resize high resolution print images and tables and figures to low resolution images.

  • Populate web pages with text and images using basic WordPress form.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or a related field.

• Must have a minimum of 5-6 years of design experience, including work in creating magazine and/or newspaper designs (portfolio required).

• Experience with typography and prepress color correction.

• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy, and Illustrator

• Experience with basic MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

• Experience in Quark Xpress and WordPress a plus.

• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript a plus.

• Strong attention to detail with excellent organizational skills.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with design director and staff editors.

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

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

Type of Job: Magazine Designer

City: Montvale

State/Country: New Jersey

Duration: Full-Time

Benefits: Yes

Company: Institute of Management Accountants

About Our Company: Management accountants are vital to the financial health of organizations. They make critical decisions, safeguard a company’s integrity, and plan for business sustainability. They might be CFOs and controllers, budget analysts and treasurers, or one of many other game changers on internal teams. Most of all, as the majority of the accounting and financial workforce, they help drive an organization’s strategy and value amid an unpredictable market.

Management accountants belong at IMA.

IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) is the worldwide association of accountants and financial professionals in business. Founded in 1919, we are one of the largest and most respected associations focused exclusively on advancing the management accounting profession. We are committed to empowering our 125,000+ members—and those throughout the rest of the profession—to strengthen on-the-job skills, better manage companies, and accelerate careers. We invite our members to discover the myriad possibilities within the profession and build an actionable future in management accounting.

Contact Name: Laura Saliba

Contact Email: laura.saliba@imanet.org

How to Apply: Please send all resume to Laura Saliba, HR Director at laura.saliba@imanet.org

Director of Creative, Southern Poverty Law Center

Job Description:
Summary: The Director of Creative is responsible for conceiving of and driving the conceptual and stylistic direction of the SPLC to align all visual elements to the organization’s mission for racial justice in the South and beyond, and working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy and advance the human rights of all people. The Director of Creative sets and communicates strategic goals related to creative and visual messaging and translates these goals into actionable scopes of work. In addition to organizational leadership and collaboration, they also oversee the creative team and supervises the visual and administrative components of the team’s work.

The Director of Creative’s role is simultaneously artistic, supervisory, and administrative. The individual in this role must possess skills and experience related to the following: branding, communications, graphic design for print media and web, interactive media, motion graphics, video editing and production, strategic visioning and prototyping. They must also have a high-level of cultural competency with using photographs and illustrations in a racial justice advocacy context. Responsibilities also include interaction with end-users and clients, design organization and sourcing, operational budget setting and management, project management, personnel management and research.

Primary Job Functions:
• Manages, guides, and mentors a team of designers, video producers, creatives;
• Serves as a member of the SPLC Leadership Team;
• Oversees and manages the day-to-day operations of the department;
• Maintains the integrity of organization branding;
• Ensure that all forward-facing visual elements align with the SPLC’s mission, vision, and values;
• Prepares the department’s annual workplan and budget, set actionable and measurable goals, and track and approve expenses throughout the year;
• Facilitates collaborative planning and design processes for projects with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that the integrity of the SPLC’s brand, mission, and values are maintained while achieving the goals of end-users;
• Sets creative direction, style and tone for the visual representation of forward-facing organization projects; and
• Schedules, monitors and maintains workflow of creative projects; sets and meets deadlines.

Job Requirements:
Related Work Experience:
• Ten (10) years of relevant design experience (portfolio is required); and
• Significant leadership and managerial experience.

Knowledge, skills and abilities:
• Passionate advocate for racial justice and anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion principles;
• Inspires trust, invites collaboration and engenders an environment of teamwork;
• Ability to provide staff guidance and mentorship;
• Ability to meet deadlines, take initiative, receive constructive feedback;
• Ability to develop talent and oversee the professional growth of staff;
• A great listener and communicator with a high level of emotional intelligence;
• Demonstrated cultural competency with using photographs and illustrations in a racial justice advocacy context;
• Experience working within an agency/design shop environment;
• Strong project management skills;
• Highly proficient in the most current version of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator);
• Excellent communication skills;
• Must have continual attention-to-detail to all projects while establishing priorities and meeting deadlines;
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing tasks and demands; and
• The ability to work independently and/or with a team and prioritize several projects at once

Type of Job: Director

City: Montgomery

State/Country: Alabama

Duration: Full-time

Company: Southern Poverty Law Center

About Our Company: The SPLC is dedicated to working side-by-side with the communities it serves to seek justice and fight hate and bigotry. Using litigation, legislation, public education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality. The SPLC has earned a reputation as a force among social justice organizations, safeguarding and defending crucial civil rights victories during some of the most challenging periods in our nation’s history. The SPLC’s work has become increasingly vital as our country becomes more diverse and hate and bigotry grow. In the face of new challenges, the SPLC has maintained an unwavering resolve to promote and protect our nation’s most cherished ideals.

How to Apply: https://www.splcenter.org/about/careers/jobs?gh_jid=4875247002

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