FiveThirtyEight is in search of a considerate, energetic and bold Senior Editor for Interactives to assist lead our interactive and visible journalism. Below the route of the Deputy Editor, who heads the Interactives and Graphics staff, the Senior Editor for Interactives will handle a subset of the Interactives staff and its tasks. It is a high-impact, interdisciplinary function that will mix components of individuals administration, mission administration and editorial management. Given the expansive nature of this place, we anticipate tailoring this job to the talents and pursuits of whomever we rent. The perfect candidate can be somebody who derives deep satisfaction from main others to do their greatest work.
The Senior Editor for Interactives will report back to the Deputy Editor and work carefully with different senior editors to handle the move of our work. This full-time function with advantages is a U.S.-based place. Our workplaces are in New York, however full-time distant work could also be thought-about. When you have questions, please electronic mail Deputy Editor Chris Groskopf. To use, please submit a canopy letter and résumé by the Disney Careers portal.
Obligations:
- Managing 2-4 members of the Interactives staff by offering common suggestions and mentoring and creating structured alternatives for progress.
- Managing 1-3 concurrent tasks, together with coordinating kickoffs, check-ins, and retrospectives; monitoring duties; and speaking with different editors and the copy desk.
- Sustaining a “no surprises” commonplace for managing each folks and tasks, making certain that each one stakeholders, together with the Deputy Editor, at all times know the place issues stand.
- Managing a nimble design and improvement course of that adapts to altering circumstances, significantly with deadlines.
- Partnering with the Deputy Editor on all points of managing the Interactives staff, together with creating staff insurance policies, making assignments and setting technique.
- Representing the Interactives staff in key conversations, resembling with stakeholders at ABC Information and Disney.
Primary {Qualifications}:
- Expertise in a minimum of two of the next areas:
- Managing folks
- Managing software program tasks
- Enhancing interactive and visible journalism
- A purposeful understanding of web-development applied sciences, together with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- The power to prioritize amongst many sorts of duties and the self-awareness to know when it’s higher to say no fairly than tackle an excessive amount of.
- The power to diplomatically negotiate and attain compromises amongst many stakeholders who might typically have conflicting pursuits.
- Kindness.
Most well-liked {Qualifications}:
- A stable understanding of U.S. politics, significantly electoral politics, and/or main U.S. sports activities.
- Fluency in fundamental statistics.
- Fluency in a minimum of one programming language, ideally JavaScript.
- Prior expertise making use of product-design strategies related to giant journalism tasks, resembling consumer analysis, fast prototyping or consumer testing.
- Prior expertise as a Technical Undertaking Supervisor or Product Supervisor.
ABC Information and FiveThirtyEight are equal-opportunity employers. Candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, colour, faith, intercourse, age, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender identification, incapacity or protected veteran standing.
