Visual Editor

4 weeks ago

New York, United States Dow Jones Full time

**Job Description**:
The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Visual Editor to direct the visual coverage of our daily and long-term stories. They will manage a team of graphics reporters to ensure that staff are pitching, creating and collaborating on high-quality visual journalism and visual-led stories for our digital platforms.

This role will be based in our New York city office and will report to the Director of Graphics.

You will:

- Prioritize, assign, and direct visual content on all platforms including mobile, desktop and social.
- Manage a team of visual specialists, providing constructive feedback on projects and professional growth.
- Work in close partnership with other visual, business news, strategy, product and engineering leadership.
- Maintain a balance of long
- and short-term projects with a mix of breaking news, enterprise, and ambitious visuals.
- Coordinate closely with photo editors and video editors on multimedia stories.
- Flexibility to allow staff to work on projects outside of their core sections, based on their skills and newsroom needs.
- Keep stakeholders apprised of all projects by maintaining departmental project lists and attending relevant meetings to ensure all milestones and editorial requirements are met.
- Create a portfolio of high-impact visual stories that are analytical, clear, and accurate.
- Help direct and create new workflows and processes in a fast-paced, global, and networked newsroom.
- Recommend and lead change where required to strengthen the team and the journalism.
- Work closely with the Director on broader departmental and organizational projects.
- Lead and inspire the department to perform at its very best.

You have:

- At least five years of experience leading a team of visual and interactive journalists, or equivalent experience.
- Excellent news judgment and an expansive understanding of contemporary design standards.
- A creative vision and willingness to share and collaborate on new ideas.
- Experience with people and performance management, or equivalent experience.
- Experience managing change, creating new processes and workflows.
- Prior experience in a newsroom, with excellent news, data and design judgment.
- A good understanding and appreciation of business news.
- Experience with data journalism and data visualization and associated tools, such as Excel, SQL, R and Python.
- Good knowledge of web development including HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Good knowledge of building stories for mobile devices.
- Excellent organizational skills using Google tools and Slack.
- Experience working in a highly collaborative environment.
- Experience building consensus and motivating different personalities and teams.
- The ability to work quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines.
- The ability to train reporters and editors to learn new skills that will contribute to their visual storytelling.
- The initiative to take on and learn new tasks in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent communication skills.

Applications should include a resume, cover letter and portfolio links.

The Journal’s reporters, editors, developers, and audio and visual journalists create important and impactful stories, firmly rooted in fact and adhering to the highest ethical standards. We report without fear or bias, and we maintain a proper sense of perspective, detachment and objectivity in our reporting.
- LI-JA1-WSJ

Business Area: Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category: Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:
Non-Union role

Pay Range: 65,000 - 200,000

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to

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