Designer, Visual Storytelling

The Wall Street Journal is seeking an experienced designer to join an award-winning team to drive innovative storytelling for digital readers, including creative designs for packages that incorporate photography, illustration, data visualizations, and long-form text pieces.

About the role

You will create modular, reusable components as well as entirely bespoke experiences in a highly collaborative environment with news designers, developers, and information graphics experts. The role is based in our New York office and reports to the Digital Design Editor.

Depending on individual strengths, there will be opportunities for skills development where needed. You should be endlessly curious and comfortable at the intersection of journalism, design, and technology, with the ability to build what you design and design what you build.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Digital Design Editor to prioritize stories requiring special visual direction, ranging from fast 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 applicable to digital storytelling.
• Work quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines; some news stories may require working outside regular office hours.

Requirements

• At least three years of experience in an equivalent role, with a strong 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 React, Handlebars, or Tailwind CSS.
• Experience with storyboarding and prototyping tools like Figma.
• Familiarity with best practices for building stories for mobile devices.
• Familiarity with Adobe Illustrator and ai2html.
• A passion for journalism and innovation.

Pay

Base pay range: $110,000 – $130,000. This range reflects our good faith estimate and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Bonus-eligible roles have targets determined by market benchmarks and individual contributions.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet diverse employee needs.