FiveThirtyEight is looking for a considerate, lively and impressive Senior Editor for Interactives to assist lead our interactive and visible journalism. Underneath the path of the Deputy Editor, who heads the Interactives and Graphics workforce, the Senior Editor for Interactives will arrange a subset of the Interactives workforce and its tasks. It is a high-impact, interdisciplinary function that can mix parts of other people control, venture control and editorial management. Given the expansive nature of this place, we look ahead to tailoring this process to the abilities and pursuits of whomever we rent. The perfect candidate will probably be any individual who derives deep delight from main others to do their easiest paintings.
The Senior Editor for Interactives will report back to the Deputy Editor and paintings carefully with different senior editors to control the glide of our paintings. This full-time function with advantages is a U.S.-based place. Our places of work are in New York, however full-time far flung paintings could also be regarded as. When you’ve got questions, please e-mail Deputy Editor Chris Groskopf. To use, please post a canopy letter and résumé in the course of the Disney Careers portal.
Tasks:
- Managing 2-4 participants of the Interactives workforce via offering common comments and mentoring and growing structured alternatives for enlargement.
- Managing 1-3 concurrent tasks, together with coordinating kickoffs, check-ins, and retrospectives; monitoring duties; and speaking with different editors and the reproduction table.
- Keeping up a “no surprises” usual for managing each other people and tasks, making sure that each one stakeholders, together with the Deputy Editor, at all times know the place issues stand.
- Managing a nimble design and advancement procedure that adapts to converting cases, specifically with time limits.
- Partnering with the Deputy Editor on all sides of managing the Interactives workforce, together with creating workforce insurance policies, making assignments and surroundings technique.
- Representing the Interactives workforce in key conversations, equivalent to with stakeholders at ABC Information and Disney.
Elementary {Qualifications}:
- Enjoy in a minimum of two of the next spaces:
- Managing other people
- Managing device tasks
- Enhancing interactive and visible journalism
- A useful working out of web-development applied sciences, together with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- The facility to prioritize amongst many varieties of duties and the self-awareness to grasp when it’s higher to mention no somewhat than tackle an excessive amount of.
- The facility to diplomatically negotiate and achieve compromises amongst many stakeholders who might once in a while have conflicting pursuits.
- Kindness.
Most popular {Qualifications}:
- A forged working out of U.S. politics, specifically electoral politics, and/or primary U.S. sports activities.
- Fluency in elementary statistics.
- Fluency in a minimum of one programming language, preferably JavaScript.
- Prior enjoy making use of product-design ways related to very large journalism tasks, equivalent to person analysis, speedy prototyping or person trying out.
- Prior enjoy as a Technical Challenge Supervisor or Product Supervisor.
ABC Information and FiveThirtyEight are equivalent alternative employers. Candidates will obtain attention for employment with out regard to race, colour, faith, intercourse, nationwide starting place, sexual orientation, gender identification, incapacity or secure veteran standing.
