Design Developer, Opinion
The New York Times1 month ago
Base Salary
$114k - $136k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with art directors, editors, and engineers to build responsive, pixel-perfect user experiences and product features.
- Assess designs for technical feasibility, accessibility, and performance, providing constructive feedback and alternatives.
- Create interactive prototypes, responsive layouts, animations, and transitions from static wireframes.
- Integrate, debug, and optimize video, audio, animation, and other multimedia assets across devices and browsers.
- Conduct visual QA across screen sizes to ensure typography, spacing, colors, and micro-interactions match specifications.
- Build and maintain reusable editorial templates, tools, and documentation.
- Onboard and guide designers on front-end systems, asset handoffs, and workflow integration.
- Support the organization’s mission of journalistic independence and report to the Deputy Editor, Design.
Requirements
- 5+ years of creative front-end development experience using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Figma.
- Strong understanding of visual design fundamentals, including typography, layout, motion, and interaction.
- Familiarity with Git, collaborative coding workflows, and learning new technologies and front-end languages.
- Experience or interest in rapidly evolving digital technology, including emerging AI API toolsets.
- Preferred experience or familiarity with Svelte, WebGL, three.js, canvas, React, After Effects, Cinema4D, Blender, or Maya.
- Preferred experience with motion design, data visualization, video, and audio work.
- Strong attention to layout hierarchy, visual consistency, motion timing, and typography.
- Passion for journalism and visual storytelling, interest in audience analytics, and comfort with occasional nights or weekends in a fast-paced newsroom.
Benefits
- This is an in-office position based in New York City, with regular attendance four days each week and possible flexibility for remote work according to departmental guidance.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision coverage; FSAs; a company-matching 401(k); employee stock purchase plan; paid vacation and sick days; paid parental leave; tuition reimbursement; and professional development programs.
- The role may be eligible for variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.
- The position is represented by the NewsGuild of NY.
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About The New York Times
The New York Times produces and distributes journalism and related digital products for global audiences across web, apps, print, audio, and newsletters. Its business model centers on paid subscriptions and advertising, offering the core news report alongside podcasts, newsletters, NYT Games, NYT Cooking, and Wirecutter product reviews. Founded in 1851 and headquartered in New York City, The New York Times Company is a public company listed on the NYSE under the ticker NYT.