Graphics/Multimedia Editor, Publishing and Storytelling Tools
The New York Times5 months ago
Base Salary
$113k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain software used by graphics developers to render and publish visual journalism.
- Build and improve pipelines for ingesting, processing, and displaying large datasets such as election results and statistical models.
- Facilitate and guide contributions from other developers to core software libraries.
- Maintain automatic cloud tooling for high-frequency publishing, data ingestion, and data analysis.
- Sketch and rapidly prototype interactive applications, graphics, and multimedia story forms.
- Ensure compliance with web performance and accessibility standards.
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team under news deadlines.
- Support the organization’s journalistic independence and mission.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Expertise developing interactive graphics, data dashboards, and websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Expertise building software and tooling for developing and publishing websites and interactive applications.
- Demonstrated experience with Svelte or other modern web technologies.
- Expertise managing applications in complex cloud computing environments.
- Portfolio or code repositories demonstrating interactive applications and websites from concept to launch.
- Cover letter describing the candidate’s role in specific projects and the software tools and systems created.
- Preferred: experience meeting deadlines and adapting to a daily, unpredictable news production environment.
- Preferred: interface design and information graphic design skills.
- Preferred: curiosity about the news and innovative approaches to storytelling.
- Preferred: experience creating news graphics in varied formats and timeframes.
Benefits
- In-office position in New York with regular attendance four days each week and possible remote flexibility according to departmental guidance.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s).
- Company-matching 401(k) plan.
- Paid vacation and paid sick days.
- Paid parental leave.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
- Position represented by the NewsGuild of NY.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringFrontend
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.