FiveThirtyEight is searching for a considerate, energetic and impressive Senior Editor for Interactives to assist lead our interactive and visible journalism. Beneath the course of the Deputy Editor, who heads the Interactives and Graphics staff, the Senior Editor for Interactives will handle a subset of the Interactives staff and its tasks. It is a high-impact, interdisciplinary function which will mix parts of individuals administration, mission administration and editorial management. Given the expansive nature of this place, we anticipate tailoring this job to the talents and pursuits of whomever we rent. The perfect candidate will probably be somebody who derives deep satisfaction from main others to do their greatest work.

The Senior Editor for Interactives will report back to the Deputy Editor and work carefully with different senior editors to handle the movement of our work. This full-time function with advantages is a U.S.-based place. Our places of work are in New York, however full-time distant work could also be thought of. When you have questions, please electronic mail Deputy Editor Chris Groskopf. To use, please submit a canopy letter and résumé by way of the Disney Careers portal.

Obligations:

• Managing 2-4 members of the Interactives staff 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” commonplace for managing each individuals and tasks, guaranteeing that every one stakeholders, together with the Deputy Editor, all the time 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 staff, together with creating staff insurance policies, making assignments and setting technique.
• Representing the Interactives staff in key conversations, comparable to with stakeholders at ABC Information and Disney.

Primary {Qualifications}:

• Expertise in no less than 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 somewhat than tackle an excessive amount of.
• The flexibility to diplomatically negotiate and attain compromises amongst many stakeholders who might generally 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 no less than one programming language, ideally JavaScript.
• Prior expertise making use of product-design methods related to giant journalism tasks, comparable to consumer analysis, speedy prototyping or consumer testing.
• Prior expertise as a Technical Undertaking Supervisor or Product Supervisor.

ABC Information and FiveThirtyEight are equal-opportunity employers. Candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, coloration, faith, intercourse, age, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender identification, incapacity or protected veteran standing.