Designer, Visual Storytelling

Job Description:

The Wall Street Journal is seeking an experienced designer to join an award-winning team to drive innovative storytelling on some of our most ambitious journalism for digital readers. Story experiences will include creative designs for packages that include visual formats such as photography, illustration, and data visualizations, as well as long-form text pieces.

You will create modular and reusable components, as well as entirely bespoke experiences. This is a highly collaborative role on a team of news designers, developers, and information graphics experts.

We’re looking for someone who is endlessly curious and comfortable at the intersection of journalism, design, and technology. We're looking for applicants who can build what they design, and design what they build.

Depending on individual strengths, there will be opportunities for skills development where needed.

You will report to the Digital Design Editor and you will be based in our New York office.

You will:

• Work closely with the Digital Design Editor to prioritize stories that require special visual direction. Stories may range from faster turnaround to longer enterprise work.

• Collaborate with reporters, editors and other visual journalists to generate ideas and build stories for digital audiences across WSJ platforms and external platforms.

• Demonstrate excellent news judgment and sound technical approaches.

• Stay ahead of visual trends and techniques that can be applied to the evolving nature of digital storytelling.

• Work quickly and efficiently when deadlines are tight. Some news stories may require working outside of regular office hours.

You have:

• At least five years of experience in an equivalent role, with a good understanding of news media and digital publishing.

• Superior skills in interaction design, layout, color and typography across digital platforms.

• Experience with front-end development and modern web technologies such as D3, React or Svelte.

• Experience with storyboarding and prototyping tools for designing visual stories e.g. Figma.

• Familiarity with best practices for building stories for mobile devices.

• Familiarity with Adobe Illustrator and ai2html.

• A passion for journalism and innovation.

To apply, please submit a resume, cover letter and examples of your work

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:

Union role

Pay Range: $95,000 - $140,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

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..