Art Director, Zonda

Job Description: Zonda is seeking an ambitious, imaginative and collaborative art director to join its creative department. This art director must have solid experience in editorial magazine design and publishing. You will be a key player in evolving our in-house publication, ARCHITECT magazine, while ensuring visual consistency across print and digital channels. Ideal candidates understand the inner workings of the publication world. They are willing to challenge the existing rules of print and digital design and will offer strategies to leverage the growth of our company brand.

This role reports to the Design Director but will work as a partner with the Editor-in-Chief, editors and staff writers of ARCHITECT’s content team.

Job Requirements:

In this position, you will:

• Manage the design and production of ARCHITECT magazine, 8 issues per year

• Create innovative layouts, including covers and complex feature packages while setting style standards

• Oversee the commission of original artwork (includes hiring/assigning illustrations, photographers, photo research, managing photo rights, contracts, invoices, etc..) ensuring adherence to budgets and deadlines

• Create digital assets for architectmagazine.com, email newsletters, and social channels, as needed

• Participates in brainstorming and other idea-generating team sessions

Job Requirements:

• Completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Design and a minimum 5 years of magazine design experience; or an equivalent combination of training and experience related to the duties of the position

• Strong, advanced typography, layout and digital/print skills are essential. An online portfolio must demonstrate excellence in magazine design and the art direction of illustration, typography, and photography

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

• Ability to work independently under deadline

• Expert proficiency in Adobe CC (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InCopy) using Mac OS. Experience with K4 or WoodWing is highly preferred

• Extensive knowledge of 4-color reproduction, page production, prepress operations, and color correction

• Experience using collaborative tools like Dropbox, Slack, and online content management systems

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

• Working knowledge of web design is a plus

Zonda provides data-driven housing market solutions to the homebuilding industry. From builders to building product manufacturers, mortgage clients, and multifamily executives, we work hand-in-hand with our customers to streamline access to housing data to empower smarter decisions. As a leading brand in residential construction, our mission is to advance the home building industry, because we believe better homes mean better lives and stronger communities.

Together, we are building the future of housing.

Zonda (formerly Hanley Wood | Meyers Research) is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. m/f/d/v

Type of Job: Design

City: Remote

State/Country: United States

Duration: Full Time

Benefits: Health Insurance, 401K w/ Match, Flexible work schedule, remote, PTO, Paid sick leave, personal days

Company: Zonda

About Our Company: Zonda is redefining the future of housing. We are perfectly placed in the heart of the fast-growing real estate industry. We are making big bets on the future of real-estate, trailblazing a 2030 vision for the industry. Here at Zonda, you’ll be able to use your passion and curiosity to drive the next generation of real estate analysts, advisors, and technologist

How to Apply: https://careers-zonda.icims.com/jobs/4866/art-director/job

Digital Designer, Oprah Daily

Job Description: Oprah Daily is seeking a Digital Designer to support the new multiplatform lifestyle brand from Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Magazines that is making it a daily practice to live your best life. The designer will uphold a central style guide for social and site needs, as well as communicate the daily design direction on the site for larger stories. In this position, you will work in a fast-paced environment and in close partnership with story editors, photo editors, illustrators and other designers to create best-in-class visuals for interactive digital features and packages, as well as daily site needs.

Job Requirements:

Responsibilities:

• Create mood boards, infographics, logos/marks, illustrations and all other design elements for digital-first features

• 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 OprahDaily.com work stands against competitors’ and ensure that we are ahead of the curve

• Create motion-driven assets, both in video and short-form

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

• Experience with creating graphics for social media and video

• Understands brand guidelines and continues to improve systems over time

• 3-5 years experience

Type of Job: Digital Designer

City: New York City

State/Country: NY

Duration: Full-time

Benefits: Yes

Company: Hearst

About Our Company: Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, and Oprah Daily. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone.

Contact Name: Mia Feitel

Contact Email: mfeitel@hearst.coom

How to Apply: Please email with resume or equivalent as well as link to portfolio website.

Associate Photo Editor, WIRED

Job Description: WIRED is looking for an Associate Photo Editor to join our award winning photo team! This role directly reports to the Director of Photography. The Associate Photo Editor will create day-to-day photo/visual solutions to support the digital and print editorial staff to maintain the visual standards of the brand.

Job Requirements:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Acquires photo research for both the web and the print editions of WIRED.

• Research, source, license, and edit photos for specific verticals on Wired.com.

• Commissions and produces photography for various stories and collaborates with editors and designers to determine what would best visually represent each article.

• Handles all aspects of shoot production including: Creating call sheets and shot lists, hiring crew, negotiating rates for commissioned shoots, securing releases from models, securing location agreements and COIs, and handling file and retouching delivery.

• Wrangling products/call-in, logs, organizes, and returns products for large production gadget shoots.

• Reviews photographer portfolios and continuously searches for new talent and potential photo essays, for both print and online.

• Experience as a photographer a plus.

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

• 3+ years of work experience in photography, media or relevant field.

• Knowledge of digital and social content.

• Highly organized, detail oriented, and excellent communication skills.

• Ability to contribute to editorial decisions and support the development of visual stories across all platforms.

BFA or BA in Photography or Media related field preferred.

Type of Job: Photo Editor

City: San Francisco

State/Country: CA

Duration: Full-Time

Benefits: Yes

Company: WIRED

About Our Company: WIRED is a Conde Nast Publication.

How to Apply: Please go directly to this link on the Conde Nast website and apply. https://condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeCareers/job/520-3rd-Street-San-Francisco-CA/Photo-Editor--WIRED_R-06264-1

Art Director, YES! Media

Job Description: Are you a lifelong magazine junkie who happens to be a highly creative, conceptual designer and thinker with a passion for design across mediums? Do you have a sophisticated and unique design aesthetic with attention to detail? YES! Media is looking for an imaginative, collaborative, motivated, organized, and deadline-oriented Art Director to join our staff.

Ideal candidates understand how magazines work and can bring ideas and innovations from throughout the wider magazine world to YES! Media. They are willing to challenge the existing rules of print design, and will bring concepts and strategies to leverage YES!’s growing reach into multimedia platforms—including audio and video mediums.

Responsibilities include:

• Supervise and mentor the Associate Art Director for digital design. Work collaboratively with Audience Relations Team designer. Report to the Executive Editor.

• Determine the overall look and feel of YES! Magazine such that it supports editorial objectives, marketing and development objectives, as well as the brand and mission of the YES! organization.

• Design magazine pages so that the overall impression of the magazine communicates brand personality: Inspiring, Insightful, Truth-telling, Compassionate, Active, Authentic. It needs to communicate the breadth of our coverage—so that if you’ve never heard of YES! and you pick up an issue, you will get a strong sense of what we care about: Economy, Democracy, Racial Justice, Civil Liberties, Health Justice and Wellness, Environmental Justice, and Native Rights.

• Commission illustration, photos, infographics, and oversee the organization's creative budget.

• Commission and edit structurally creative storytelling forms, such as illustrated essays, and stories heavily integrated with design, data stories, video, and audio.

• Contribute your own illustrations and infographics, as needed.

• Manage prepress production.

• Collaborate with Audience Relations Team to produce effective inserts and ads supporting brand communication, fundraising, and marketing goals.

• Support reader engagement and feedback loops.

• Oversee translation of print content to an engaging digital magazine, newsletters, and social media platform stories.

• The Art Director will manage licensing of photos, illustrations, and other graphic designs for print, web, and other potential mediums.

Job Requirements: In addition to excitement for the YES! brand and mission and for our antiracism work as we build an equitable, diverse, and inclusive organization, qualified applicants should have:

• A passion for magazines and storytelling through design, both print and digital.

• Strong multitasking + organizational skills + communication skills.

• 5+ years of print magazine design experience.

• 3+ years of digital design experience.

• 2+ years in a leadership role where you’ve managed employees and deadlines.

• Cross-platform understanding of latest trends and best practices in magazine design.

• Fluency with Adobe Creative Suite, specifically InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Type of Job: Art direction and design

City: Seattle

State/Country: WA

Duration: Full-time, remote

Benefits: Salary range $70,000-85,000. Paid health, dental, and vision insurance, a health-care deductible reimbursement program, sick and vacation leave, IRA.

Company: YES! Media

About Our Company: YES! Media is a nonprofit independent publisher of solutions journalism. For 25 years, we have been inspiring people to build a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world through our reporting on the positive ways communities are responding to social problems and insightful commentary that sparks constructive discourse.

Contact Name: Zenobia Jeffries Warfield

Contact Email: jobs@yesmagazine.org

How to Apply: To apply, please send your resume, cover letter, and links to your portfolio (or at least three published examples of projects you art-directed, illustrated, or designed and led). In your cover letter, tell us how your artistic direction and vision will complement YES!’s print and digital aesthetic. Submit these materials in a single PDF via email to jobs@yesmagazine.org, with “Art Director” in the subject line, by September 21, 2021. No phone calls, please.

Designer, Washingtonian

Job Description: Washingtonian is seeking an imaginative, collaborative, and relentlessly ambitious designer for its award winning creative department. For 55 plus years, the award-winning city magazine for the Washington DC area has been a home for groundbreaking feature writing, essential service journalism, and arresting visual storytelling. Under the guidance of the Creative Director we're looking for someone who can help us take the magazine to the next level.

• Responsible for our FOB sections as well as contributing to the BOB + feature sections

• Collaborating with design, photo and edit teams

• Lead for social media account

• 10% other responsibilities coming up throughout the cycle of an issue

Job Requirements:

• 1+ years of professional experience in editorial design

• Strong multitasking + organizational skills+ communication skills

• Knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, InCopy and InDesign

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

• A love and passion for editorial design, photography, illustration, and typography

Type of Job: Design

City: Washington

State/Country: DC

Duration: Full time

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k

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 130,000+. 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: Jason Lancaster

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 Jason Lancaster at designjobs@washingtonian.com with Designer in the subject line.

Deputy Art Director, Washingtonian

Job Description: Washingtonian is seeking an imaginative, collaborative, and relentlessly ambitious deputy art director for its award winning creative department. For 55 plus years, the award-winning city magazine for the Washington DC area has been a home for groundbreaking feature writing, essential service journalism, and arresting visual storytelling. Under the guidance of the Creative Director we're looking for someone who can help us take the magazine to the next level.

• Responsible for our Home, Taste, Life, and Style, Beauty & Health sections as well as contributing to the Feature section

• Lead design for special issues including Washingtonian Weddings and Washingtonian Welcome Guide

• Pitching and inspiring the creative team with new illustration, photographic, typography, social media ideas

• Collaborating with design, photo and edit teams

• Manage and maintain creative intern position

• 10% other responsibilities coming up throughout the cycle of an issue

Job Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional experience in editorial design

• Strong multitasking + organizational skills+ communication skills

• Knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, InCopy and InDesign

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

• A love and passion for editorial design, photography, illustration, and typography

Type of Job: Design

City: Washington

State/Country: DC

Duration: Full-time

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k

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 130,000+. 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: Jason Lancaster

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 Jason Lancaster at designjobs@washingtonian.com with Deputy Art Director in the subject line.