Job Description:

WSJ. Magazine and The Wall Street Journal’s Style section are seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Creative to lead an award-winning photography and design team, helping shape WSJ. Magazine’s visual identity across all contexts and platforms.  

The ideal candidate is an expert visual storyteller with a deep understanding of the print and digital design process; of photography, video and print production; and of the best of what social, newsletters, and event extensions can offer visually and creatively.  They will thrive in a fast-paced but warm, highly collegial environment, and be ready to push a strong brand forward with infectious energy and enthusiasm. 

WSJ. Magazine sets the bar in defining luxury style, providing best-in-class fashion editorial and muscular feature journalism to an affluent global readership.  The ideal candidate will have an exceptional visual and design sense; a deep roster of industry contacts; a personal passion for luxury lifestyle and culture editorial; a shareable, reader-first approach to new visual and creative ideas; a unique and irreverent eye for exciting new collaborators and industry trends; and be a dynamic motivator, manager and mentor to staff. 

You will:

• Deliver energetic and relevant art direction and creative strategy for WSJ. Magazine and Journal style editorial across all channels, including digital, social, video, events and our flagship print edition. 
   

• Directly lead and manage the design and photography teams, supervising and managing the entire production lifecycle for visual content and design.

• Conceptually develop and drive pitches for visual content for all platforms, from Instagram Stories to an 12-page print portfolio, with a discerning eye for what works best in each context. 
   

• Identify opportunities to thoughtfully evolve or refresh existing visual presentation, particularly around emerging platforms and franchises. Bring energy and creative flair to growing the digital visual language of the overall WSJ. Magazine brand. 
   

• Come with great industry contacts and a wealth of knowledge around collaborators or contributors that are exciting and right for WSJ.
   

• Dynamically lead and manage a close-knit team through complex creative projects, fostering a supportive environment that encourages creativity, learning, and development.
   

• Have excellent communication and diplomacy skills to work with artists, celebrity talent, internal commercial teams and many other high-profile stakeholders on multi-month projects.
   

• When applicable, travel to shoots or other major creative events, providing leadership on set and ensuring each project is captured with excellence to meet WSJ. goals.

• Supervise the creation of visually compelling materials for new projects and pitch presentations (talent references, conceptual outlines, moodboards, etc.) and understand how to be visually persuasive.

• Ensure the top-tier execution and ethical standards of WSJ. Magazine and the wider Wall Street Journal are consistently met: that work is of impeccable quality across all platforms, and that The Journal’s codes of conduct and overall Standards & Ethics rules are scrupulously met. 

You are:

• An inspirational creative leader with a visually ambitious portfolio of outstanding work and at least 6 to 10 years relevant experience art-directing and designing at a creative media brand or similar.

• Passionate about the prospective wide reach of excellent, best-in-class visual work.

• A strong people manager and excellent communicator with a proven track record of motivating teams and fostering new talent, as well as working collaboratively across departments to produce results.

• Excellent time-management and prioritization skills, deploying people and resources to meet a variety of goals across different deadlines. 

• Flawless and attentive budget management to make the most of all resources. 

• Audience-first and platform-agnostic: visually fluent and equally motivated to see good visual design and showstopping photography on your phone as in a printed magazine or a live step & repeat.

• Cheerfully adaptive and entrepreneurial about new opportunities, both editorial and commercial, as our brand grows.

You will report to the Editor in Chief of WSJ. Magazine.  This is a full-time position and is based in our New York office.
 

To apply, please submit a cover letter describing your experience and interest in this job, a detailed résumé and either a portfolio link or five creative-work examples that showcase your capabilities. If necessary, include a very brief description of the role you played in each example. 

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Creative & Design

Union Status:

Non-Union rolePay Range: $200,000 - $225,000We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate’s experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..