Designer, WSJ. Magazine & Style News

Job Description:

Designer WSJ. Magazine & Style News in New York NY

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Designer for WSJ. Magazine & its Style coverage area to help conceive design and execute innovative multi-platform assets and experiences.

WSJ. Magazine and Style blend deep reporting intelligent wit and good taste to create compulsively readable stories analysis and features on the subjects of style entertainment celebrity society lifestyle and the arts. Visually style content at The Journal takes many formsreported articles documentary videos animations photo essays social media merchandise events and brand partnerships.

As the Designer you should be comfortable taking both print digital and social projects from creative brief to completion while working closely with the Design Director and overall art and visual departments as well as the Platforms Director and the Head of Creative.

This role requires speed and proficiency with digital and print design tools and a strong command of platform best-practices. The ability to work as part of a team is essential.

This is a full-time position based in our New York office and reporting to the magazines Design Director.

You will:

• Design compelling and creative assets under the WSJ. Magazine brand including social assets treated photos or illustrations video graphical elements events collateral and more.

• Assist in production for print (placing hi-res imagery and illustrations updating line-ups server folders ragging and tidying K4 files prior to close.

• Translate complex conceptual and strategic ideas into graphic design solutions

• Push the envelope for what a classic legacy brand can look and feel like digitally with a command of typography composition messaging hierarchy and balance.

• Optimize digital translations of WSJ. Magazines print editions for web and social bringing creative ideas for new ways of presenting visual information.

• Work with internal and external collaborators (photo editors digital editors project managers events teams developers illustrators and video editors) to optimize the design experience of all Style content.

• Ensure the top-tier execution and ethical standards of WSJ. Magazine and the wider Wall Street Journal are consistently met: that work is of impeccable quality across all platforms and that The Journals codes of conduct and overall Standards & Ethics rules are scrupulously met.

You have:

• A minimum of 3 to 5 years experience working within stylish media outlets or journalism brands advertising agencies creative studios or other organizations with an emphasis on digital publishing.

• Experience working in print production and proofing procedures.

• Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Premiere) as well as all social media platforms and Google products.

• A strong understanding and general skills around motion graphics and social video.

• Familiarity with HTML CSS front-end design styling and ability to use a basic CMS.

• Understanding of user experience and responsive design trends.

• Exciting clearly articulated creative taste and strong visual sensibility.

• Passion and creativity for telling stories on digital platforms in innovative ways and a desire to constantly push the creative envelope while working within the framework of an established brand.

To apply please submit your resume a cover letter explaining how you would approach the job and a link to a portfolio of your relevant work. If necessary include a very brief description of the role you played in each example.

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Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Creative & Design

Union Status:

Union role

Pay Range: $95000 - $115000

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 candidates 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..