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Senior Interactive News Designer
| Company | The Washington Post |
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| Location | Washington, DC, USA |
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| Salary | $83600 – $155500 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Typically, at least five years of professional design and development experience.
- Demonstrated ability to independently overcome development challenges, with minimal guidance, on a consistent basis over a sustained period.
- Full proficiency in partnering with other developers and non-developers to create a shared vision. This can include paired programming or mentoring other designers.
- Full proficiency in consistently exercising strong news judgment.
- Full proficiency in using development frameworks like React and tools like StoryBook.
- Comfortable contributing to and help maintain a large production codebase.
- Familiarity with SEO and load time performance concerns, as well as testing software such as Jest.
- Full proficiency in using storyboard and sketch software such as Figma and Adobe XD.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate design and/or coding work produced by others.
- Demonstrated ability to create interactive components for use by others.
Responsibilities
- Brainstorm and build enhanced storytelling presentations through strong collaborative relationships with various departments across the newsroom.
- Create engaging, content-driven designs or illustrations that are smart, risk-taking and reader-centric.
- Deliver creative presentations on tight deadlines by guiding the storytelling in all phases from concept to launch, reviewing work for errors and incorporating feedback.
- Identify and overcome coding challenges to create new storytelling formats.
- Mentor and support others on the team through designated office hours.
- Evaluate the performance of your and others’ code and help to refine and templatize when necessary.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
