Executive Editor, Visuals

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The Guardian's US edition – headquartered in New York City, with growing bureaus in Washington DC and Los Angeles – is an entirely digital operation that combines the best of the Guardian's international reporting with US voices and expertise. Core coverage areas include the climate emergency, economic and racial inequality, wellness, culture, digital privacy and sports – all highlighting the Guardian's distinctive role within the US media landscape: journalism that's global, independent, and free.

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Editorial, Visuals

Creative Director, Guardian US and Executive editor, Guardian US

New York, NY

Hybrid

Full-time, permanent, News Guild Media position

Drive delivery for a multidisciplinary Visuals team—photography, data, interactives, design, and illustration—while staying hands‑on in a fast‑moving newsroom. Partner with leadership to set visual ambition and elevate storytelling, and work across the newsroom to bring bold ideas to life. Balance daily demands with long‑term projects, keep teams and budgets on track, and champion creative excellence from start to finish. Produce stories such as the US elections 2024, the impact of climate crisis, the investigation into Ice deportations and Bushwick, Brooklyn: the US's most exciting neighborhood.

• With the creative director and executive editor, lead the team of creative journalists working across photography, graphics, design, illustration, animation and interactive formats to enable creation of ambitious visuals-led stories in the fast-paced newsroom to amplify our journalism, with the reader in mind.
• A hands-on CMS user contributing to and implementing the creative team's work, you will maintain the highest standards of journalistic accuracy, storytelling techniques and visual clarity, quality, look and feel in the team's approach and output, ensuring functionality, accessibility and usability across platforms and devices. Be a source of visual, editorial and production expertise for projects and initiatives from inception to implementation.
• Oversee prioritization, planning, schedules, workflows and resourcing of visuals projects to ensure efficiency and delivery  Slack, Trello, and other tools to track progress, visibility and communication across teams. With the Creative Director, identify and resolve blockers on progress, risks, and resource needs.
• Balance fast-turnaround, reactive requests with longer-form proactive projects, ensuring priorities are clear and achievable while maintaining high editorial and creative standards.
• Manage team rotas, budget and contributor payments. Ensure level of team cover supports newsroom operations.
• Actively foster a culture of collaboration, collaborative processes and efficiency, and a dynamic, creative office environment to motivate and cultivate the creative, technical and journalistic skills of team members. Support Guardian US journalism with photo research, commissioning, art direction, illustration, data visualization, interactives, motion graphics and animation.
• Work with clients of the visuals team, including US news, features, the west coast bureau, philanthropy projects and front page editors to ensure the team's work supports the intended journalistic purpose. Ensure that creative considerations are valued and embedded from the outset—acting as a firm and clear voice in the processes. Assist non-team members in understanding visual journalism, related issues and technologies.
• Develop an…