Photo Editor, Barron's

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Job Description: Barron's is seeking an experienced and innovative photo editor to join its world-class visuals team. Candidates should have excellent journalistic judgment, an eye for engaging photography and at least five years of experience in an editorial or newsroom role. They should be a gifted visual storyteller with the ability to produce different genres of photography. And they should be able to thrive in a fast-paced newsroom, juggling daily, weekly or quarterly deadlines. We are seeking someone who can think about how photography can stand out on all platforms. We also highly value teamwork, so a collaborative approach is required.

Job Requirements:

  • 5+ years in an editorial department or newsroom role

  • Excellent journalistic judgement and integrity

  • Knowledge of news, business, finance

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced newsroom, juggling daily, weekly and quarterly deadlines

  • A gifted visual storyteller with experience producing different genres of photography (with an emphasis on strong portraiture)

  • Great image research and editing skills, with a refined eye for engaging photography

  • Experience contracting and negotiating with both freelance photographers and photo agencies, handling invoices

  • An existing network of artists with an ability to identify fresh and emerging talent

  • Attention to detail in matching photos to tone of the article and also in assembling caption and credit information

  • Occasionally assisting Penta, a quarterly magazine providing luxury lifestyle content

  • Social media–savvy

  • Proficiency with Photoshop required, ability to create photo illustrations a plus

  • A self-starter, unafraid to ask questions

  • A team player and great communicator

Type of Job: Photo

City: New York

State/Country: NY

Duration: Full-time and Freelance roles available

Company: Dow Jones

About Our Company: Barron's is an industry leading investing publication, renowned for its market-moving stories. Its articles appear in a variety of formats, including in-depth investigations, quick news stories, columns and data visualizations that are published on its home page, in a weekly print magazine and a range of social media posts and visual formats. 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.

How to Apply: Interested parties should send a resume, cover letter and no more than three samples of their work to Bob Rose, Executive Editor, bob.rose@barrons.com; David Cho, Editor in Chief, david.cho@barrons.com; or Sarina Finkelstein, Director of Photography, sarina.finkelstein@barrons.com, or apply through the following link. https://dowjones.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Dow_Jones_Career/job/NYC---1211-Ave-of-the-Americas/Photo-Editor--Barron-s_Job_Req_29153

Assistant Designer, Food & Wine

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Job Description: Food & Wine magazine has an incredible opportunity for an ambitious designer to join our award-winning creative team and work firsthand to develop dynamic and creative layouts from concept to print. The Assistant Designer will work directly with the Art and Creative Directors to evolve the magazine’s visual brand through creative typography, expressive photography, and thoughtful illustrations. They will use their excellent communications skills to work directly with editors and photo teams to bring new and exciting ideas to life on the page, review color with the production team to complete their visual plan and finalize files with a keen eye for detail. This person will also support the team as a whole with an eagerness to assist on all manner of design projects to constantly elevate the look and feel of the brand’s visuals across all platforms.

Job Requirements:

80%

  • Plan and design magazine department pages collaboratively with CD and AD

  • Find illustrators and assign illustrations

  • Develop plans for photoshoots with art and photo teams

  • Oversee photoshoots with photo team and food editors

20%

  • Work with production manager to color correct images for assigned stories

  • Update issue walls and work on special projects

1-2 years of design related experience, preferably at a publication

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Strong typography skills

  • Great visual sensibility

  • Adobe Creative Suite, specifically: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Bridge

  • Excellent communication and organizational skills a must.

Type of Job: Design

City: Birmingham

State/Country: Alabama

Duration: Full-time

Company: Dotdash Meredith

About Our Company: Dotdash Meredith is the largest digital and print publisher in America with 188 monthly unique viewers. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith’s over 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living.

How to Apply: Please apply directly using the link below: https://meredith.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/EXT/job/Alabama--Birmingham/Assistant-Designer--Food---Wine_JR11168

Associate Art Director, Food & Wine

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Job Description: Food & Wine magazine is seeking a dynamic, imaginative Associate Art Director to join our award-winning creative team. The Associate Art Director will work directly with the Creative Director and Photo Director and be instrumental in planning and designing department and feature pages; producing photo shoots; commissioning original artwork; and developing strong Food & Wine branding across multiple platforms, including digital, social, PR, and licensing projects. This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic, detail-oriented designer to support and evolve the visual direction of a growing magazine through collaboration on evocative designs, inventive typography, creative photography, and conceptual ideas.

Job Requirements:

75%

  • Work with the Creative Director to design innovative layouts for department and feature pages

  • Anticipate problems and proactively communicate with coworkers to make sure all elements of design are in place and align with story concept

  • Take direction and adapt feedback to improve layouts/design

  • Stay up-to-date on design and typography trends; find and/or design fonts as needed

  • Experiment in design strategies and push quality of design forward daily

  • Assign and direct illustrations

  • Find and maintain a database of illustrators

20%

  • Close daily collaboration with photo, food, and production teams, as well as editors in multiple locations

  • Plan, design, and build rough layouts of magazine department sections and features

  • Contribute to and collaborate on photo plans as needed

5%

  • Assist in managing the day-to-day operations of a small, fast-paced art department with a sharp eye for detail and a strict attention to deadlines

Type of Job: Print Publishing Designer/Director

City: Birmingham

State/Country: Alabama

Duration: Full-time

Company: Dotdash Meredith

About Our Company: Dotdash Meredith is the largest digital and print publisher in America with 188 monthly unique viewers. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith’s over 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living.

How to Apply: Please apply directly using the link below: https://meredith.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/EXT/job/Alabama--Birmingham/Associate-Art-Director--Food---Wine_JR11166

Senior Designer/Associate Art Director, Zonda Media

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Job Description: Zonda Media is seeking an ambitious, imaginative and collaborative Associate 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 publications, 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 the content team.

Job Requirements:

In This Position, You Will

  • Manage the design and production of the assigned in-house publications

  • 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 the brand websites, 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

Location: DC OFFICE OPTIONAL; FULL-TIME REMOTE, EST Time Zone

Type of Job: Design

City: Washington

State/Country: DC

Duration: Fulltime

Benefits: Zonda seeks to protect the health and financial well-being of its employees and their families by offering a variety of comprehensive and flexible benefit plan options. Benefit plans cover the spectrum of Healthcare, Flexible Spending Accounts

Company: Zonda

About Our Company: 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

Contact Name: Tamisha Love

Contact Email: careers@zondahome.com

How to Apply: Please submit, resume and cover letter along with salary requirements

Art Director, Refinery29

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Job Description:

About Refinery29
Refinery29 is the leading media and entertainment company focused on women with a global audience footprint of 249 million across all platforms. Through a variety of lifestyle stories, original video programming, social, shareable content, and live experiences, Refinery29 provides its audience with the inspiration and tools to discover and pursue a more independent, stylish, and informed life. Please visit www.refinery29.com, www.refinery29.com/en-ca, www.refinery29.uk, www.refinery29.de and www.refinery29.com/fr-fr for more information and to browse content.

What Makes an R29er?
You have a deep commitment and passion for the mission of R29 to motivate and inspire women through their own unique power, identity, and infinite potential. You have a deep knowledge and/or interest in women’s storytelling and reporting, as well as its distinct power to inform and drive conversation & change. You ignite possibilities and solutions in even the most challenging moments, and you have an innate desire to strive for excellence and progress, through your daily work and your attitude.

What you'll do:

  • Maintain and advance the Refinery29 visual brand by enforcing brand guidelines across departments, working on both editorial and branded content, and continuously exploring new ways to enhance those guidelines.

  • Manage the design team’s operations in close collaboration with the Design Director, Senior Executive Director, Photo & Design, and Design coordinator.

  • Manage, mentor, and direct internal and external designers; taking responsibility for the completion of projects.

  • Foster open collaboration with all editorial, branded content, and photo leads.

  • Work closely with the Design Coordinator to assist in assigning design projects when needed.

  • Manage the quality and approve design for a range of creative work (homepage, mobile, new emerging platforms, and global sites).

  • Educate and facilitate new processes, workflows, and templates across the CMS for the design and editorial teams.

  • Concept and design smart, visually arresting artwork and layouts.

  • Work closely with third party illustrators and provide art direction.

  • Make sure that the design team and freelance contributors are delivering projects according to the initial specs and requirements.

Job Requirements:

  • 4+ years graphic design and art direction experience with an established digital company or online media publication

  • Experience empowering, managing, mentoring, and developing designers

  • Excellent leadership skills

  • Immersed and knowledgeable in design culture, past and present

  • A strong balance of identity design, typography, layout skills

  • An open, positive and collaborative communication style

  • A proactive, solutions-oriented mentality

  • Ability to collaborate and contribute to a team effort but also to work independently to deliver on individual responsibilities

  • Ability to work quickly and efficiently under pressure

  • Ability to handle multiple projects at the same time

  • Extensive knowledge and familiarity with the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), Figma, Sketch, Google apps, etc.

  • Strong desire to develop creatively and push the R29 visual brand forward

  • Ability to art direct motion design from storyboarding through animation

  • Ability to animate is a plus

  • Ability to lead, present and communicate creative vision across multiple departments and stakeholders

  • Ability to build strong relationships across teams and departments

  • Ability to understand the scope and needs of a project or campaign, and to execute at a high level

  • Support the Design Coordinator in managing the planning and logistics of a project including timelines and team’s resources

  • Comfortable with collaborating and sharing feedback in a remote setting with online tools such as Figma/Sketch and Google Slides

Additional Information: For consideration, you must submit your resume and link to your online portfolio and cover letter to the link below. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

Type of Job: Design

City: New York

State/Country: NY

Duration: Full Time

Benefits: Health, 401k, vacation

Company: Refinery29, Vice Media Group

About Our Company:

Working at VICE: We want to find people who believe in our mission and goals and feel inspired to grow while they’re here, rather than someone who checks the boxes but isn’t invested. We encourage you to apply and show us what you’ve got.

VICE Media Group prioritizes the voices, ideas and people that other media companies miss. We believe that innovation is a direct result of diverse, inclusive cultures so we don’t just “tolerate” differences, we celebrate it and see it as essential to our staff, culture, and business. To learn more read the VICE Guide to VICE.

In alignment with our Core Behaviors and to ensure the safety of all of our employees and the communities we serve, we require all incoming employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If hired, you will be required to provide proof of vaccination, which will be kept confidential. If you require reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please let us know by contacting Accommodations@vice.com. We will work together to best meet your needs.

Agencies: VICE Media Group is not partnering with agencies nor accepts unsolicited resumes and will not be responsible for any fees or expenses related to such unsolicited resumes and/or applicants.

How to Apply: Please submit your resume and portfolio at this link: https://vice.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vice_External_Career_Site/job/Brooklyn-NY/Art-Director_R0000727

Art Director, Quanta Magazine

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Job Description:

POSITION SUMMARY
Quanta Magazine seeks an accomplished art director to guide the magazine's visual style and identity, and to lead the art staff in creating, commissioning and editing illustrations, photography and other science and math visualizations. Successful candidates will be a dynamic leader and communicator, a digitally savvy designer with impeccable editorial judgment and a diehard advocate for the highest standards in visual journalism and scientific accuracy.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Collaborate with the art, web and editorial staffs to plan, design and produce story packages.

  • Oversee concepting, hiring, directing and licensing visuals for features, news articles, explainers, columns and interviews.

  • Art direction and design work for other visual projects, including infographics, standalone visual features, social media assets and videos.

  • Manage and supervise the art staff.

  • Create original illustrations and other visual assets as needed.

  • Research, assign and edit photo shoots.

  • Prepare visuals for publication, primarily for web (includes color correction and cleanup, file conversion, resizing, etc.).

  • Learn the WordPress content management system in order to supervise web production and layout, in addition to ongoing visual design improvements to the website.

  • Develop and maintain visual style guide and other internal documents.

REQUIRED APPLICATION MATERIALS

  • A portfolio demonstrating mastery of design principles, color theory and typography, with extensive knowledge of current design trends.

  • Resume

  • Cover letter

Apply Here: https://www.click2apply.net/Z4Zl62CZLXKLFzdQtmwKM

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Job Requirements:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • At least five years of experience as an art director or a visual journalist in a leadership capacity.

  • Demonstrated experience of design principles, color theory and typography, and extensive knowledge of current design trends.

  • Expertise in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, with at least some familiarity with other relevant digital editing tools (such as Figma, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere, WordPress).

  • Experience collaborating with journalists, illustrators, designers, photographers and video and graphics editors, explaining design decisions, and receiving and giving feedback.

  • Must be a proactive, fast learner who can research deeply and problem solve, especially when confronted with unfamiliar tasks or subject matter.

  • A track record of deep engagement with science, digital media and visual journalism.

  • Must be detail-oriented and organized, and an excellent communicator who thrives in a collaborative setting.

Type of Job: Design

City: New York

State/Country: New York

Duration: Full-Time

Company: Simons Foundation

About Our Company:

ABOUT QUANTA
Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent online publication launched by the Simons Foundation to enhance public understanding of science. Our reporters and editors focus on developments in mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science and the basic life sciences, with an emphasis on delivering timely, accurate, in-depth and well-crafted articles for our broad, discerning audience. Among other awards and accolades for its science journalism, Quanta was awarded a 2020 National Magazine Award for general excellence. Quanta has syndication partnerships with Wired, The Atlantic, Scientific American, The Washington Post and other publications; has published two books (Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire and The Prime Number Conspiracy); and our articles have been translated into several languages.

The Simons Foundation's Diversity Commitment
Many of the greatest ideas and discoveries come from a diverse mix of minds, backgrounds and experiences, and we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment. The Simons Foundation actively seeks a diverse applicant pool and encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic disposition, neurodiversity, disability, veteran status or any other protected category under federal, state and local law.

How to Apply: Apply Here: https://www.click2apply.net/Z4Zl62CZLXKLFzdQtmwKM