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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.

Photo Editor

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 Director

SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE is seeking a creative, resourceful, fast, flexible, and drama-free art director to join its editorial staff. The art director contributes to all aspects of this National Magazine Award-winning title, best known for its longform investigative stories like this and this and this, its authoritative service journalism (see this and this), and its smart, provocative, irreverent tone (here, here, and here). This is a hands-on position: the A.D. will be designing features and front-of-book departments; collaborating closely with the editor-in-chief and design and photography directors; conceptualizing and generating design approaches; assigning (or creating) infographics, illustrations, and charts; following layouts through all phases of production; overseeing color correction; managing production assistants; and shipping files. The candidate should be a magazine junkie; should have a East Coast work ethic and West Coast love of experimentation; and should enjoy working with a bunch of San Francisco characters. The Art Director needs a high level of design sophistication, knowledge of past and current design trends, a good feeling for typography, a Rolodex of illustrators and photographers, and a talent for visual storytelling. Must be able to handle large packages with design consistency and flair.

Design Director

SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE is seeking a creative, resourceful, fast, flexible, low-drama, low-ego, high-sophistication design director to join its smart and scrappy (read: small) editorial staff. The design director oversees the visual strategy for every aspect of this National Magazine Award-winning title, best known for its longform investigative stories, its authoritative service journalism, and its smart, provocative, irreverent tone. This is a hands-on position: the design director will not just be overseeing a bunch of minions; she/he will be designing features and front-of-book departments; collaborating closely with the editor-in-chief and art and photography directors; conceptualizing and generating design approaches; assigning (or creating) infographics, illustrations, and charts; following layouts through all phases of production; overseeing color correction; managing production assistants; and shipping files. The candidate should be a magazine junkie; should have a East Coast work ethic and West Coast love of experimentation; and should enjoy working with a bunch of San Francisco characters. The Design Director needs a high level of design sophistication; a near-encyclopedic knowledge of past and current design trends; a good feeling for typography; a hefty Rolodex of illustrators and photographers; and a natural-born instinct for visual storytelling. Must be able to handle large packages with design consistency, flair, and a sense of toughness and/or humor.