[Hiring] Interactive Story Designer @ProPublica

Role Description

ProPublica is seeking a talented interactive designer to craft stories with real-world impact. You will work closely with ProPublica’s award-winning journalists to design and build rich story experiences, including:

• An illustrated narrative about a woman on a farmworker visa
• A typographic explainer of how nonprofits stripped diversity, equity, and inclusion language from their mission statements
• An immersive video project on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ violent tactics

Your projects will range from creating visual-first stories to building multimedia features that elevate our daily storytelling, as well as experimenting with innovative story and graphical forms. You will be at the epicenter of one of the most exciting newsrooms in the country, where design is integral to the mission.

This position will report to our graphics director and will collaborate with members of other departments including visuals, video, news apps, product, writers, and story editors.

Qualifications

• At least three years of relevant design experience
• An understanding of good design principles and how to design for clarity and impact
• The ability to communicate visual ideas through sketches and prototypes with visual journalists as well as reporters and editors
• Fluency in web development including HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• A solid knowledge of or background in journalism; prior reporting experience is a plus
• A love for details and making things
• A deep desire to work on important accountability stories and an eagerness to help dig for the truth to help spur reform
• A talent for translating complex topics clearly and compellingly to our audience
• An ability to work on several projects at once; you’ll need to stay organized and focused
• An ability to travel occasionally for meetings and trainings

Requirements

• Proven ability to use technical and design skills for journalistic ends
• Clear communication skills
• Thoughtful, passionate advocacy for the user
• Background in graphics or data visualization is a plus

Benefits

• This job is full time and includes benefits
• ProPublica is based in New York, but we’re open to remote candidates in the U.S.
• Offices in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Chicago; Phoenix; and Berkeley, California
• Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.
• The expected salary range for this position is $110,000 to $130,000
• This is a good-faith estimate; final salary will consider experience, accomplishment, and location

What You Should Send Us

Projects are the most important part of the application, not fancy degrees or deep resumes. Your application is a chance to show us your ability to contribute to great work. You’ll be able to send us three projects from your portfolio (if you don’t have a portfolio, links or screenshots are fine). Here you can walk us through your contributions to those projects. Take advantage of this to tell us everything you did, from behind-the-scenes wins you’re proud of to how you helped your colleagues to what you might have done differently a second time around. Tell us what worked and what didn’t, and how that fit into the context of what was needed for the project.

We will begin reviewing applications as we receive them, but we will continue to consider candidates as long as the posting remains live on our site.

Questions? Send an email to [email protected] . No phone calls, please.

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We know there are great candidates who may not fit into what we’ve described above or who have important skills we haven’t thought of. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

We are dedicated to improving our newsroom, in part by better reflecting the people we cover. We are committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and people with disabilities. We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.