Designer, Culture and Communications - The New York Times (NYC, NY)

The New York Times is seeking a Designer to join the growing Culture and Communications team. The team is focused on all internal communications, and is dedicated to helping create the spaces for employees to feel connected to the company. We believe that our employees are our most important stakeholders and are passionate about pushing the boundaries of what internal communications can be. We seek a candidate who shares this ambition, and will be a trusted steward of our mission across the organization, while reinforcing the values that have sustained us over the past 170 years.

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The designer will work in close collaboration with the Associate Creative Director, Culture and Communications on building and extending the design systems currently in use. This individual will join in the project of rebuilding our current intranet, help maintain it, and evolve it into a more engaging and useful hub. They will contribute ideas towards developing and expanding the internal communications identity system across a range of touchpoints, including but not limited to, company meetings and presentations, emails, orientation, posters, signage and templates. The designer will come with the skills needed to translate an idea from high-level concept to production and execution.

This individual will also collaborate with teams across the company, including the Newsroom, Brand Identity, Human Resources, the Publisher’s Office and Marketing.

Qualifications We Seek

• 2-4 years of design experience

• A portfolio demonstrating strong typographic skills and identity work

• An understanding of UX and digital design

• Well-versed in Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop

• Strong skills in Figma

• Illustration experience is a plus

• Experience with motion graphics is a plus

• Attention to detail

• Works well in a fast-paced environment

• Demonstrates an openness to learning new techniques and platforms

• An ability to keep multiple projects moving independently

• An interest in internal culture building through design

• An interest in editorial design is a plus
  

Benefits And Perks

• We provide health, dental, vision and life insurance for employees and their families.

• We support responsible retirement planning with a generous 401(k) company match.

• We offer a generous parental-leave policy. Both birthing and non birthing parents are eligible to receive 20 weeks paid leave, and an additional six weeks unpaid parental leave.

• We are committed to career development and ongoing learning, and provide employees $8,000 annually for tuition reimbursement.

• We have frequent panel discussions and talks by different newsmakers and industry leaders.

• Join a community committed to the richness of diversity, experiences and talents in the world we cover, supported by a variety of employee resource groups.
  

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local "Fair Chance" laws.