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The New York Times Parenting team is looking for an experienced Visuals Editor to create and source photography, artwork, and graphics for our forthcoming new product. You will play a central role in defining—and be responsible for executing on—the visual sensibility of our product.
This person will be working with the New Products and Ventures group, whose successful products include NYT Cooking and NYT Crosswords. We are a small, cross-functional team. You will collaborate with design, editorial, product, and marketing to create a beautiful and engaging product with a visual language that stands out in the parenting space.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with editors and designers to develop story concepts into visuals that are exciting to our users.
Manage art for editorial calendar across a variety of formats and channels, including web, mobile, social, and newsletter
Ensure the creation of unique editorial digital experiences for special projects in formats including: illustration, photography, and animations
Assign original photography and artwork from photographers, illustrators, designers, animators and other creative partners
Negotiate rights and usage to procure photography and illustration
Oversee original photo production, including photo shoots and cropping and optimizing photos across channels
Collaborate with the design team on execution of the product, and marketing on campaigns and product launches
Work on tight deadlines to create a sharp relationship between images and copy
Forge relationships, as needed, with other visual units at The Times, including video, graphics, and photo
Train and manage support staff
Requirements
You should have:
5+ years related experience in digital product/media environment
Sharp eye for talent and ability to recruit a diverse pool of photographers and illustrators
Experience in handling photo rights and rates, legal issues, and digital best practices
Adept at distributing images on across channels (social, web, mobile)
Experience using content management systems
Expertise in development of interactive graphics
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Benefits and Perks:
Make an impact by supporting our original, independent and deeply reported journalism.
We provide competitive health, dental, vision and life insurance for employees and their families
We support responsible retirement planning with a generous 401(k) company match.
We offer a competitive parental leave.
We are committed to career development and ongoing learning, and provide employees $8,000 annually for tuition reimbursement.
We have frequent panel discussions and talks by a wide variety of newsmakers and industry leaders.
Join a community committed to the richness of diversity, experiences and talents in the world we cover, supported by a variety of employee resource groups.