September 2014 Archives

New York Magazine Photo Department Intern

New York Magazine's photography department is offering a PAID internship. We are looking for someone with prior internship experience at a magazine, who is comfortable with handling photography equipment and lighting, and familiar with stock photo agencies. Qualified candidates should be organized and able to see projects through under tight deadlines. Interns should be very comfortable and effective communicating over the phone, in person, and via e-mail. Intern responsibilities include some general administrative duties, photo researching, maintaining photo archives, scouting, assisting on photo shoots, assisting in our photographers studio and maintaining the props closet. Interns will also be calling in products, logging-in and returning artwork, be a contributing member during creative meetings, and undertake photography assignments, skills permitting. CANDIDATES MUST BE AVAILABLE MON-FRIDAY 10-6 PM. Please email cover letter and resume to Carolyn Griffin directly.

Executive Art Director

McMURRY/TMG, the nation's largest, independent full-service content marketing agency, is seeking a wildly talented senior art director with top-notch magazine design, art-team management, and new-business pitching skills for our Phoenix office. You will be responsible for designing a mix of print magazines, digital media, and other content marketing projects for our nationally renowned clients. Experience in luxury, travel, weddings, jewelry, and food content design is a strong plus. Duties also include managing an amazing team of art directors and holding high the bar on creative execution to ensure our work is bold, beautiful, strategic, exceeds our clients' expectations, and wins lots of design awards. We are looking for someone with top-notch people skills, as this position will be responsible for inspiring greatness from and managing the quality and work schedules of a team of managing art directors and the art directors who report to them. Management duties include inspiring the team, tracking design and technology trends, mentoring, hiring, training, organizing quality reviews and feedback, goal setting, managing workflow best practices, and more. This position will play a key leadership role in our Phoenix office and work in partnership with executive art directors across our three other national offices to drive innovation and collaboration, as well as share design ideas, best practices, and staff resources. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: • Work closely with in-house editorial teams and clients to brainstorm and conceptualize the original visual direction of magazines, websites, apps, and other content marketing creative media products. • Partner with editorial leads to ensure our designs reflect the best strategies and outcomes. • Brilliantly design department and feature stories, commission and art direct high-level illustrations and photo shoots, produce beautifully designed magazine pages--with stunning typography, imagery, and attention to detail. • Articulate design clearly in a team environment for your team and clients, as well as in new-business pitches. • Oversee and/or participate in redesigns and prototypes. • Create original strategically focused designs, carrying designs through, researching or commissioning and purchasing images and working directly with clients on the realization of their products (which may include leadership of a design team to that end). • Help price and scope new-business opportunities. • Adhere to established schedules and processes for the movement of materials from concept through download. • Manage and adhere to established art budgets. • Coordinate hiring and workflow.

Project - Coordinator CPNU

The Project - TENGO Coordinator will be working on the logistics involved in utilizing TENGO equipment in the field. This includes bureau kits and accessories, TVU packs and Fujitsu units. The Project - TENGO Coordinator will need to maintain schedule calendar for all TVU units and bureau kits. ESPN, Inc., The Worldwide Leader in Sports, is the leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company featuring the broadest portfolio of multimedia sports assets with over 50 business entities. Headquartered in Bristol, Connecticut, ESPN is 80% owned by ABC, Inc. (a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company), and 20% by the Hearst Corporation. ESPN was founded by Bill Rasmussen and launched on September 7, 1979. Now with over 6,500 employees, each year ESPN televises more than 5,100 live and/or original hours of sports programming. The company's mission is to serve sports fans. Anytime. Anywhere. - Coordinate with the logistics center on shipping of units to and from assignments - Setup and facilitate courier services when needed to dispatch units quickly - Would be knowledgeable enough about the coverage plans to create efficiencies when assignments are in close proximity - Coordinates with vendors and ESS for replacement parts and repair of equipment - Responsible for ordering additional equipment and accessories when needed - Follows up on shipping of units from remote locations, to ensure they are being picked up - Will be the point person for requests outside of the SC coverage Unit - Communicates with transmission for heads up on particularly heavy or important TVU coverage days/assignments - This project job could morph into part of a production coordinator job servicing SportsCenter, should that position ever materialize. - It is possible this position won't be needed after 19 months, because, as technology advances, much of this equipment could become small enough for our producers to travel themselves. - Strong organization skills. Work with Logistic Center to develop the best logistical plan for storing and accessing TENGO spare equipment and TVU packs. - Extremely detail oriented. Need to keep close track of the whereabouts of TENGO equipment as well as the repair history of each unit. - High proficiency in Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Can use formulas in Excel to create and maintain various tracking documents and charts. - Monitors TVU feeds to alert potential problems and keeps track of TVU performances at our frequent locations. - Might need to work during after-hours to support last-minute production needs. - Some basic SAP knowledge preferred. Responsible for processing monthly flip phone bills and ordering spare equipment from various vendors in SAP. - Basic sports knowledge and some production knowledge are preferred. - High School Diploma or equivalent required - College degree preferred Imagine a career with an organization that brings smiles to millions every day. Imagine working with people whose passion for what they do is simply indescribable. We are The Walt Disney Company, live with a rich legacy of innovation, entertainment, and lifelong memories. With our vast array of both businesses and professionals, you'll have the opportunity to join a team that's beloved around the world, and to find out how it feels to love what you do. We invite you to discover for yourself why a career with Disney is the opportunity you've been looking for. ESPN is an equal opportunity employer - Female/Minority/Veteran/Disability. Our goal is to create an inclusive workplace for all. If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=2144861-3110-2580

Editorial Graphics Producer

The Editorial Graphics Producer collaborates with content producers, coordinating producers and researchers on ESPN's flagship program, SportsCenter, to find innovative ways to enhance the video storyline from a graphics and content perspective. The Editorial Graphics Producer I lead the editorial direction of on-air insert graphics appearing in live programming. ESPN, Inc., The Worldwide Leader in Sports, is the leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company featuring the broadest portfolio of multimedia sports assets with over 50 business entities. Headquartered in Bristol, Connecticut, ESPN is 80% owned by ABC, Inc. (a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company), and 20% by the Hearst Corporation. ESPN was founded by Bill Rasmussen and launched on September 7, 1979. Now with over 6,500 employees, each year ESPN televises more than 5,100 live and/or original hours of sports programming. The company's mission is to serve sports fans. Anytime. Anywhere. - Responsible for the creation or supervising the creation of written content, visual content and statistics under tight deadlines in a live broadcast environment. - Shape and enhance storylines using superior editorial judgment and clear, concise written content. - Check and proof graphics for grammar, spelling, clarity and impact under tight deadlines during live productions. - Communicate effectively and clearly across the production, editorial and technology departments to ensure the highest levels of execution and best on-air product. - Responsible to uphold the strongest levels of creativity and news judgment regarding content covered. - A minimum of 4 years of experience in sports news production with an emphasis on graphic interpretation of news events. - Thorough day-to-day knowledge of sports news, information and history with the skill to translate content into short, specific and concise messages that are easily comprehended and digested by the viewing audience. - Candidate must demonstrate the ability to show leadership, to drive content and to leverage relationships by working collaboratively with team members. - A minimum of 4 years of experience in sports news production with an emphasis on graphic interpretation of news events. - Thorough day-to-day knowledge of sports news, information and history with the skill to translate content into short, specific and concise messages that are easily comprehended and digested by the viewing audience. - Candidate must demonstrate the ability to show leadership, to drive content and to leverage relationships by working collaboratively with team members. - Experience integrating interactive social and digital media via graphics - High School Diploma or equivalent. - College degree in Communications or English Imagine a career with an organization that brings smiles to millions every day. Imagine working with people whose passion for what they do is simply indescribable. We are The Walt Disney Company, live with a rich legacy of innovation, entertainment, and lifelong memories. With our vast array of both businesses and professionals, you'll have the opportunity to join a team that's beloved around the world, and to find out how it feels to love what you do. We invite you to discover for yourself why a career with Disney is the opportunity you've been looking for. ESPN is an equal opportunity employer - Female/Minority/Veteran/Disability. Our goal is to create an inclusive workplace for all. If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=2144857-3110-2180

Design Director

Design Director Job Description Fairchild Fashion Media, which includes WWD, Footwear News, Beauty Inc, M and Fairchild Summits, is seeking a talented Design Director, Marketing in our New York offices. The Design Director is responsible for overseeing visual direction for all print and digital branding, events, and promotional materials as well as managing a dynamic design department. Responsibilities: • Manage and participate in ideation, creation and delivery of: o Branding ads (print and digital) o Custom creative for advertising clients (digital and print) o High-impact proprietary ad units (digital and print) o Event design for high-end summits and events (including brand identity, event design, and collateral) o Videos/sizzle reels o PPT and Keynote presentations • Oversee day-to-day operations of Design department including managing team of designers and freelancers. Must have: • 5-7 years of design experience (at least 2 of which should be direct management experience) • Risk-taking in design, pushes past the obvious to make something outstanding • Strong grasp of user interface design, brand development, digital marketing/advertising and creative processes • Strong management experience • Strong conceptual thinker who is prolific with ideas • Have excellent knowledge of Adobe CC, PowerPoint and Keynote • Be a positive and collaborative team member and leader who inspires passion, dedication, and excellence from others • Ego-free. Invites feedback and knows how and when to defend design choices • Have solid organizational skills and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment with pixel-perfect execution from beginning to completion • Web and multimedia skills a plus - HTML 5, flash, aftereffects, etc. About The Company: Fairchild Fashion Media, with publications like Women's Wear Daily (WWD) and Footwear News (FN), produces the publications of record for senior fashion executives, providing an insider's perspective on top news, trends and strategies. Fairchild publications keep businesses a step ahead on the retailing, manufacturing and financial aspects of the global women's and men's fashion, retail and beauty communities and the consumer media that cover the market. Fairchild Fashion Media is owned by Penske Media Corporation (PMC) - a leading digital media, publishing, and information services company founded in 2003. PMC engages with thriving audiences across the web, television, mobile, print and social media - reaching more than 140 million consumers monthly (comScore, 2014), and was recently named one of the Top 100 Private Companies in the United States. With the preeminence of its brands, PMC is one of the largest digital media companies in the world, publishing more than 20 digital brands, including an extensive joint venture in India with ZEEtv, as well as 40 annual events/conferences and a dynamic research and emerging data business. PMC brands include Fairchild Fashion Media, PMC Studios, Deadline.com Variety Magazine, Variety.com, CricketCountry.com, HollywoodLife, ENTV, India.com, Movieline, TVLine, BGR, AwardsLine, @hollywood, LA411, NY411, Young Hollywood Awards, The Style Awards, and Breakthrough of the Year Awards. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. To Apply: Please send an email to careers@pmc.com with a cover letter & resume and, as applicable, work samples.

UI Designer (North America Designers Only)

We are seeking an experienced UI designer to redesign several key elements of our existing (currently desktop-only) website, as well as generate new UI designs optimized for mobile and tablet devices, and in line with best practices for mobile development. Note: This project is design-only and does not include website development. Top candidates will be asked to respond to a formal request for proposal (RFP).

Freelance Designer -senior level

We are in need of a senior level designer to work on our Winter Issue. To build pages, over see incopy and the flow of the magazine close. As well as conceptualize and FOB stories and layout pages. You will work closely with the Art Director and senior designer as well as the edit team. Starting 10/8 working until 10/29

Designer

U-T San Diego is seeking an up-and-coming page designer with at least 2-3 years of experience. You should be comfortable with both news and features design and relish an opportunity to grow and take your work to the next level. The ideal candidate should be proactive, have good interpersonal skills and be comfortable collaborating with other departments and developing concepts in small, intense group brainstorms. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment that demands adaptability and flexibility.

Women's Health Design Aide

Women's Health magazine is currently looking for an enthusiastic design aide that can start in our NY office ASAP. This would be a paid position for 10 weeks in the design department. A minimum commitment of at 3-5 days a week is required. Duties will include assisting the art department and designing layouts or FOB sections. Must be proficient in InDesign. Please contact us ASAP if you are interested!

Marie Claire Art Department Fall Intern

Marie Claire is looking for interns in the art department. Candidates must have a strong interest in magazine design, photography, typography and love for fashion. Excellent communication and organizational skills are a must, plus the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment. He/she should be resourceful, responsible and a creative problem-solver. The intern will assist in the daily workflow of the magazine. Duties will include but are not limited to: Maintaining and updating the mini wall for each issue, preparing and updating flip books for Editor-in-Chief and Design Director, photo research, preparing layouts for presentation, mounting cover proposals for presentation. Under the guidance of the art department, the intern will experience the process of a national monthly magazine. This is the perfect position for a dynamic, self-motivated college student looking for hands-on experience. Experience with Photoshop and InDesign is required, as well as a major relating to graphic design. This is a non-paid internship and for school credit only. Candidates MUST receive school credit and be able to commit to at least 2 full days a week for our internship program at our New York office. Please contact jyeung@hearst.com if interested.

Designer/Lucky Peach

Lucky Peach is looking for a good designer to join our tiny art department here in San Francisco, mostly on our print magazine. Responsibilities would include unglamorous production-y things (that we all do) like flowing in text and clipping out images + designing front-of-book sections, designing features, working with illustrators/photographers/ and designing/conceptualizing special issues/sections/photoshoots.

NYLON Art Internship

NYLON Magazine is looking for an Art Department Intern to begin ASAP! Main responsibilities include updating our issue wall and book, collaborating on illustration and photography projects, and providing some design support for our iPad issue. We are looking for strong, creative designers with an understanding of and love for the NYLON aesthetics. All internships are unpaid, and interns must be available 2+ days a week (with flexible hours!).

Digital Design Director

Digital Design Director Provide guidance, direction and ensure design/UX consistency on all Wall Street Journal newsroom initiatives. Working with the Global Visual Editor, help shape the visual voice of The Wall Street Journal.Create experience and visual style guides geared towards visual and non-visual staffers. Mentor and develop digital design and experience skills among less-experienced visual colleagues.

Multimedia Editor in Washington, D.C.

Participate in the planning and creation of The Wall Street Journal's integrated political coverage which include visuals as a key part of the storytelling package. Be able to report, design and create information graphics/interactives for all platforms, including desktop, mobile, social media and print.We are seeking a curious, entrepreneurial journalist who eagerly embraces new ways of telling stories with data, charts and maps. Experience with full stack development of modern web apps, online data viz tools (d3, Raphael, Processing) or online mapping tools optional but strongly favored. Equal Opportunity Employer: /All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets/

Tools Developer

This inventive, versatile developer will create and support applications and templates that allow producers, designers, editors and bloggers to create interactive graphics without direct involvement of developers. Current examples include quizzes, polls, image carousels, diagrams, charts, maps and panoramas. This developer will support existing tools and templates, add new features and improve their mobile and multi-language capabilities. The developer will also create new interactive tools geared toward social media and deploy applications and templates at overseas WSJ sites. Equal Opportunity Employer: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets

Photo Editor

The Wall Street Journal, the nation's largest daily newspaper, has an exciting opening for a Photo Editor/ in the Mansion section and News photos in our New York City based photo department What the position is: This is a rare opportunity to work with world class photographers around the globe, edit and produce visual content for in-depth and high end real estate stories. A great love of photography and visual storytelling are paramount second only to your top-notch portfolio of past stories you've edited and produced. This position (This is a full time position in our New York City office. Competitive salary, great benefits and vacation allowance and the best group of coworkers you will ever find are all perks for the job.) if for Aerotek posting please remove Who we are looking for: A visual storyteller able to pull together complex photo assignments, agency research, communication with reporters around the globe, editors with demanding standards. A qualified candidate is able to communicate via the written word and with excellent communication and social media skills. A bachelor degree at minimum is necessary and you should have at least 2 years in an position of producing or photo editing. Aside from your keen eye the most important skill for success in this position is a stellar personality, ability to work in a team environment and develop consensus with colleagues, yet be self-motivated to work the hours necessary to complete assignments that can span many time zones. A successful candidate will be deadline-oriented, digitally focused and excel at multi-tasking. You would be involved in a variety of daily and longer project tasks, including posting stories and creating complementary content, creating photo and multimedia packages building and maintaining special sections, managing social media accounts, working with reporters and editors on enhancing stories for digital and mobile devices, promoting reader participation, and more.

Photo Editor

Job Description: The Wall Street Journal, the nation's largest newspaper, has an exciting opening for a high level Photo Editor. What the position is: This is a rare opportunity to work with world class photojournalists around the globe, edit and produce visual content for in-depth highest quality journalism. A great love of photography and visual story telling are paramount second only to your top-notch portfolio of past stories you've edited and produced. Long-term this position supports the "enterprise" and investigative reporting team producing daily stories for news and featured online elements. You would work closely with senior editors and reporters in the newsroom, graphics, interactives team and video department (and of the course the photo staff). This is a full time position in our New York City office. Competitive salary, great benefits and vacation allowance and the best group of coworkers you will ever find are all perks for the job. Please include links to work in your application and resume. Equal Opportunity Employer: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets

Art Director

Job Description: This versatile designer will both craft presentations for Wall Street Journal award submissions and design Wall Street Journal articles and pages for publication. Design responsibilities will include all platforms, including mobile, Web, print and social media. The candidate must have proven experience working with teams of text, graphic, photo and interactive producers and editors on digital and print news publications. Equal Opportunity Employer: /All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets/

Senior Designer

WIRED is looking for a senior designer to join our team on the advertising side (NOT editorial), as a full-time freelancer with potential for something more long term. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of experience in the professional world. Projects include designing branding, marketing, and event collateral, as well as online, tablet, and in book units. The designer should be able to take ideas from concept to execution and collaborate well with a team. This position is in an extremely fast-paced environment where prioritization, communication, and organizational skills are essential. Must have a positive "can do" attitude and be willing to wear a lot of hats. Expert knowledge of CS6 InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Keynote, and PowerPoint. Knowledge of Adobe DPS and WordPress is a plus. A portfolio with a good eye for typography is a must!

Photo Editor, San Francisco Magazine

San Francisco magazine is looking for a highly fun, creative, intelligent, and resourceful photo editor to join our lean, mean art team. Are you a magazine junkie who looks at that naked photo of Jeff Koons in Vanity Fair, or that New York magazine cover of the wailing baby, or our very own Oakland-inspired homage to Georges Seurat's "Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte," and thinks, "Oh my God, yes!!"? Then you should be working at San Francisco, alongside our veteran staff of visual provocateurs and editorial troublemakers. You will be responsible for directing, producing, and procuring all images in the magazine including front-of-book sections, features, and covers. You'll develop concepts with the editorial and art team; assign projects to both local and regional photographers; and produce and direct a boatload of photo shoots (sometimes upward of 20 per issue). You'll procure styling props; ensure on-time delivery of all image files to our pre-press team; oversee color correction and pre-press process; manage payment and contracts for all contributing photographers; compile a budget for the art department; and manage a comp list for contributing photographers. But aside from all of that, you'll also be a source of inspiration and a generator of ideas for everything the magazine puts on the page. If you love the art of photography, the craft of magazine making, and the joy of working alongside people as scrappy and smart as you are, then you should apply.

Art/Design Intern Food Network Magazine

Food Network Magazine (Hearst Corporation) is seeking a graphic design student for a fall internship in the Art Department. The intern will assist in the daily workflow of the magazine. Duties will include: updating layouts, minor imaging work, and some design. Candidates should have an interest in magazine publishing, strong working knowledge of InDesign and Photoshop. Interest in food a plus. Duration: September - December Applicants must receive college credit for the internship this position is unpaid. A commitment of 3 days a week is required, from 10 am to 6 pm (flexible). Send PDF of resume (include 3 samples of work) to fnmartintern@gmail.com

Editorial Design Director

22nd Century Media, LLC, has an immediate opening for a full-time in-house production coordinator/editorial designer. This position will focus on coordinating and assisting with the editorial design of our 14 community newspapers, production of annual community guides for local chambers of commerce, coordinating file delivery/proofing with print vendors, and assisting with the production of marketing material and other projects as requested.