FiveThirtyEight is in search of a form, collaborative and artistic Senior Visible Journalist to hitch our Interactives and Graphics group. Senior Visible Journalists are design leaders within the FiveThirtyEight newsroom. Although they serve primarily as particular person contributors, in addition they amplify the work of the group by mentoring extra junior visible journalists, thoughtfully giving and receiving suggestions and main by instance. We’re searching for a seasoned journalist who will train sturdy information judgment, convey a pointy eye for element and maintain our work to the best requirements.
The Senior Visible Journalist will report back to both the Deputy Editor, Interactives and Graphics, or the Senior Editor for Interactives and work carefully with the remainder of the Interactives group in addition to reporters and editors throughout the newsroom. This full-time function with advantages is a U.S.-based place. Full-time distant work could also be thought of, however as a result of our workplaces are in New York Metropolis, we desire candidates based mostly within the space.
In case you have questions, please electronic mail Deputy Editor Chris Groskopf. To use, submit a canopy letter and résumé via the Disney Careers portal.
Tasks:
- Producing extremely polished, visually impactful tales and initiatives that entice, excite and have interaction our readers
- Main the design course of for our bigger initiatives, together with by creating rules, specs and different documentation that allow work to be delegated to the group
- Contributing to a rotation of every day charts manufacturing and “seconding” much less skilled visible journalists
- Inspiring, mentoring and guiding teammates and colleagues of their visible work
- Collaborating in bigger strategic conversations about visible model, web site design, branding, accessibility and extra
- Giving considerate, candid suggestions to friends, colleagues and managers and overtly receiving it in flip
Primary {Qualifications}:
- Three or extra years of related expertise
- Proficiency utilizing design software program, significantly Adobe Illustrator
- Fluency in JavaScript and a number of libraries used for creating graphics, resembling D3, together with a purposeful understanding of the “full stack” of web-development applied sciences
- Fluency in fundamental statistics — for instance, a conversational understanding of ideas resembling margin of error and regression evaluation
- Eagerness to collaborate with different visible journalists, computational journalists, reporters and editors throughout the newsroom
- Expertise engaged on deadline
Most popular {Qualifications}:
- 5 or extra years of related expertise
- A stable understanding of U.S. politics, significantly electoral politics, main U.S. sports activities and/or science
- Expertise with statistical programming languages, resembling R
- Expertise with cartography and mapping instruments, resembling QGIS and TopoJSON
- Expertise making use of product-design strategies to massive journalism initiatives, resembling person analysis, fast prototyping and person testing
candidates are strongly inspired to use even when they don’t meet each qualification.
Certified however prepared for a brand new problem? We’re additionally hiring a Senior Editor for Interactives.
ABC Information and FiveThirtyEight are equal-opportunity employers. Candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, shade, faith, intercourse, age, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender identification, incapacity or protected veteran standing.
