The Athletic is hiring a
Director, Graphics

Summary

The job is for the Director, Graphics position at The Athletic, a digital sports media company. The role involves managing a team, creating workflow processes, mentoring direct reports, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and executing projects. The candidate should have at least 7 years of experience in a newsroom or similar environment, strong project management skills, leadership abilities, and an outstanding portfolio showcasing relevant work.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience, including time working as a graphics editor or graphics director in a newsroom or similar environment
• Experience managing a team with concurrent, on-going projects
• Experience managing the development of interactive graphics or Web sites
• Experience working and collaborating with Product and Engineering teams
• A deep understanding of and an appreciation for journalism, design and data, including data analysis languages and methods of acquiring data, like coding and scraping
• The ability to shape data-based journalism using innovative approaches to storytelling
• An outstanding portfolio showcasing relevant work
• Strong interpersonal, project management, presentation, leadership and communication skills
• The ability to adapt and think quickly when projects change, timelines shift or scopes vary
• A high standard of journalistic and creative quality for yourself and others while finding the best solutions to meet newsroom and company-wide goals

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategy and execution of data and graphics focused journalism, special projects and design systems
• Identify workflow inefficiencies as they arise and implement solutions that lead to better collaboration, production and design
• Lead the creation of evergreen, data-driven destinations
• Collaborate with cross-functional newsroom, engineering and product partners to ensure continuity across platforms and publishing spaces
• Ideate with and edit your team to maintain The Athletic’s high-caliber storytelling and visual identity
• Manage and mentor your team, creating a strong sense of purpose, community and journalistic excellence

Benefits

• Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans
• Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses
• 401k retirement savings plan and employer match
• Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave