Design Developer, Opinion
The New York TimesBase 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 and recommend constructive alternatives.
- Create interactive prototypes with responsive layouts, animations, and transitions.
- Integrate, debug, and optimize video, audio, and animation 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 templates, tools, and documentation for recurring editorial workflows.
- Onboard and guide designers on front-end systems, asset handoffs, and workflow integration.
- Support the Opinion desk’s mission of independent journalism and report to the Deputy Editor, Design.
Requirements
- At least 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 front-end technologies and languages.
- Experience or interest in emerging digital technologies such as AI API toolsets.
- Preferred experience with Svelte, WebGL, three.js, canvas, React, After Effects, Cinema4D, Blender, or Maya.
- Preferred experience with motion design, data visualization, video, and audio work.
- Passion for journalism and visual storytelling, strong visual detail orientation, and interest in audience analytics.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced newsroom with flexibility for occasional breaking-news hours.
Benefits
- U.S. benefits may include medical, dental, and vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts, a company-matching 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and professional development programs.
- The position is in-office in New York City four days per week, with some potential remote flexibility based on departmental guidance.
- The role is represented by the NewsGuild of NY.
- Eligible roles may receive variable pay such as an annual bonus or restricted stock.
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