FiveThirtyEight is searching for a considerate, energetic and impressive Senior Editor for Interactives to assist lead our interactive and visible journalism. Underneath the course of the Deputy Editor, who heads the Interactives and Graphics crew, the Senior Editor for Interactives will handle a subset of the Interactives crew and its tasks. This can be a high-impact, interdisciplinary function that will mix parts of individuals administration, challenge administration and editorial management. Given the expansive nature of this place, we anticipate tailoring this job to the abilities and pursuits of whomever we rent. The perfect candidate shall be somebody who derives deep satisfaction from main others to do their finest work.
The Senior Editor for Interactives will report back to the Deputy Editor and work intently with different senior editors to handle the movement of our work. This full-time function with advantages is a U.S.-based place. Our workplaces are in New York, however full-time distant work could also be thought-about. When you’ve got questions, please electronic mail Deputy Editor Chris Groskopf. To use, please submit a canopy letter and résumé via the Disney Careers portal.
Obligations:
- Managing 2-4 members of the Interactives crew by offering common suggestions and mentoring and creating structured alternatives for progress.
- Managing 1-3 concurrent tasks, together with coordinating kickoffs, check-ins, and retrospectives; monitoring duties; and speaking with different editors and the copy desk.
- Sustaining a “no surprises” normal for managing each individuals and tasks, making certain that each one stakeholders, together with the Deputy Editor, at all times know the place issues stand.
- Managing a nimble design and growth course of that adapts to altering circumstances, notably with deadlines.
- Partnering with the Deputy Editor on all facets of managing the Interactives crew, together with creating crew insurance policies, making assignments and setting technique.
- Representing the Interactives crew in key conversations, resembling with stakeholders at ABC Information and Disney.
Fundamental {Qualifications}:
- Expertise in a minimum of two of the next areas:
- Managing individuals
- Managing software program tasks
- Modifying interactive and visible journalism
- A practical understanding of web-development applied sciences, together with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- The flexibility to prioritize amongst many sorts of duties and the self-awareness to know when it’s higher to say no quite than tackle an excessive amount of.
- The flexibility to diplomatically negotiate and attain compromises amongst many stakeholders who could typically have conflicting pursuits.
- Kindness.
Most popular {Qualifications}:
- A strong understanding of U.S. politics, notably electoral politics, and/or main U.S. sports activities.
- Fluency in fundamental statistics.
- Fluency in a minimum of one programming language, ideally JavaScript.
- Prior expertise making use of product-design methods related to massive journalism tasks, resembling consumer analysis, fast prototyping or consumer testing.
- Prior expertise as a Technical Challenge Supervisor or Product Supervisor.
ABC Information and FiveThirtyEight are equal-opportunity employers. Candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, colour, faith, intercourse, age, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender id, incapacity or protected veteran standing.
