Digital Media Designer

Posted On: December 8, 2016

Media-Related Job

Media Organization: Salon Media Group

Company Description

Salon Media Group (Ticker Symbol: SLNM.PK) operates the pioneering, award-winning news site Salon.com. With an audience of 15 million monthly unique visitors, Salon.com covers breaking news, politics, culture, technology and entertainment through investigative reporting, fearless commentary and criticism, and provocative personal essays. Salon.com has been a leader in online media since the dawn of the digital age and has bureaus in San Francisco and New York City.

Job Description

Salon Media (publisher of Salon.com) is hiring a full-time digital media designer with 2-3 year of experience to work in our NYC office. We are a fast-paced, high-volume editorial environment and we want a talented professional who is pro-active, efficient, and proficient. The ideal candidate will be skilled in Photoshop, Illustrator, and interactive graphics and data visualizations using javascript and HTML5.
The designer will be responsible for creating interactive content from the bottom up, building interactivity for final use upon the site. This interactive content will include infographics and animated branding elements as well as modelled and rendered text treatments and graphics for our video team. The designer will also be responsible for generating artistic and eye-catching static images to be used as featured images for stories on the site, all while being faithful to Salon's voice and brand.
A diverse portfolio of dynamic work in Photoshop, Illustrator, and interactive media is required.

To Apply

Please email art@salon.com with a cover letter and resume as attachments (pdf format), and include a link to an online portfolio in the body of the email.