
Creative Director
Washingtonian Magazine - Washington, DC USA
Washingtonian
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Overview
Washingtonian is seeking an imaginative, collaborative, and relentlessly ambitious leader for its creative department. For 60 years, the award-winning city magazine for the Washington area has been a home for groundbreaking feature writing, essential service journalism, and arresting visual storytelling. We’re looking for someone who can help us take the magazine to the next level, leading a high-caliber team of designers, photo editors, and staff photographers.
Responsibilities:
- Overall look and feel of the magazine from a visual perspective
- Management of a small art and photography team
- Brainstorming and designing covers
- Designing features and service packages
- Directing staff and freelance contributors, and managing workflow
- Working with editors on visually-driven story ideas
- Managing a budget
- Helping plan and design ancillary publications
- Helping with the design of online versions of print articles
- Providing input on all aspects of the brand's visual presence
Unofficial responsibilities include: helping create a freewheeling creative environment where staffers are encouraged to cook up ambitious ideas big and small; inspiring a talented team of designers who want to step up their game and editorial folks who want to better collaborate; setting and maintaining high visual standards; and having a lot of fun while doing so.
In addition to first-class design skills, our ideal Creative Director would possess a large rolodex of artists and photographers who can help make our pages even more exciting. The Creative Director reports to the Editor-In-Chief.
Qualifications:
- Experienced print art director and designer with strong attention to detail and love and understanding of typography, design, illustration, and photography
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to talk through editorial ideas in a lively, collaborative, and fast-paced environment
- Ability to nurture and develop an internal team of award-winning designers, art directors, and photo editors
- Strong network of industry connections with illustrators, designers, and photographers
- Works closely to implement designs across all brand platforms, including print, web, and video
- Manages budget and allocates spending for freelance, illustrations, and photography
- Proficiency in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop required; experience with K4 a plus
- Web-based graphic design experience a plus
- Must have a minimum of 5 years of magazine experience, a love of typography, a keen eye for complex page design, and be a true team player
Salary: $80,000 to $120,000.
To apply: Please send your cover letter, résumé, and samples (no larger than 10MB) or a link to your online portfolio to designjobs@washingtonian.com with "Creative Director" in the subject line.