Senior Designer, Magazine

Job Description

WHO WE ARE

New York Magazine obsessively chronicles the ideas, people, and cultural events that are forever reshaping our world. The New York brand includes the groundbreaking magazine New York, which is published biweekly in print, and six thriving verticals: Intelligencer, delivering national news and sharp commentary on politics, business, technology, and media; the Cut, covering the conversations that matter most to women today; Vulture, the premier destination for culture news, criticism, and service; the Strategist, dedicated to shopping the internet smartly; Curbed, covering cities and city life; and Grub Street, home to food news and authoritative restaurant criticism.

New York Magazine is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what's now, what's next, and what's possible.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

New York Magazine is looking for a Senior Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience in both brand design and editorial, as this role will straddle editorial and consumer revenue and serve as both a key member of our editorial digital design team and the lead creative responsible for creating marketing assets and campaigns that support and enhance New York's subscription offerings.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
• Commission and create original illustration and graphics in collaboration with story and top editors across our six verticals
• Serve as the lead designer responsible for the conception and development of marketing assets in collaboration with Senior Director of Brand & Growth Marketing for Consumer Revenue, supporting New York's subscriptions business
on a range of weekly assignments, seasonal campaigns and ad hoc projects
• Create a holistic and cohesive design approach to subscription marketing that aligns with editorial voice / vision in collaboration with stakeholders across editorial and consumer revenue
• Create replicable templates and guidelines for photo collages and treatments and other visual assets, including social story promotion elements using Creative Cloud and Figma
• Create GIFs, short animations and motion graphics for web, email marketing, ad placements and social media
• Develop mood boards and visual treatment concepts for new projects or refreshes for both editorial and consumer revenue
• Contribute to ongoing creation of a comprehensive and diverse portfolio of artists suited to the style and visual voice of New York and its brands
• Become proficient in using Clay, our content management system, to best support the visual expression of individual stories, and provide design and visual guidance to editors and producers as they build a range of stories

WHO YOU ARE
• A passion for New York magazine
• 5+ years of experience in editorial and/or brand design
• Expert photoshop skills creating digital photo collages with supplied imagery
• Ability to generate, execute and iterate on ideas quickly
• Ability to resize designs for different platforms as needed
• Ability to multitask and prioritize in deadline driven and fast paced environment
• Comfortable working with many stakeholders, including business teams, and editors across several editorial teams
• Comfortable both giving and receiving feedback, and an excellent communicator
• Experience commissioning illustrations
• Organized, detail oriented and proactive
• Experience working with digital asset management systems and content management systems is a plus

If you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We've hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.

WHERE YOU'LL WORK

This job is located in New York and we require employees in office 3 days per week.

PAY TRANSPARENCY

The salary range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience.

Pay Range

$85,500 — $120,000 USD

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