Location
London

Hours
Full Time - Five day week

Salary
Starting at £60,000 (final offer dependent on skills, experience and responsibilities)

About the Role
Join our team at the Guardian and be part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation delivering fearless, investigative journalism that holds power to account. You will lead the production of innovative, impactful visual journalism with a graphical, interactive, multimedia or spatial focus. Collaborate with reporters and editors to conceptualise and edit visual news stories, ensuring words and visuals are intuitively integrated. You will interrogate datasets for veracity and newsworthiness, explore emerging technologies, and develop technical skills to advance the department's visual investigative and innovation capabilities. Employ hands-on project management to lead working groups producing visualisations, interactives, and new formats. Work alongside interactive journalists, developers, designers, data journalists, and correspondents to push the boundaries of multi-platform digital storytelling. Regularly contribute new ideas for visual and data stories, keeping abreast of the news agenda, emerging technologies, and storytelling techniques.

Experience
- Strong track record of editorial leadership on complex visual storytelling projects
- Experience adapting data-driven visual journalism for different platforms and audiences, such as social video
- Experience editing or reporting data or mixed media stories (graphics, postcode lookups, satellite imagery, video, audio, animation, 3D modelling)
- Experience analysing data using tools such as R or similar
- Expertise in developing interactive graphics using libraries such as Svelte, React, d3 or similar (desirable)
- Experience creating mobile-first visual journalism with UX needs in mind
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite including Illustrator (desirable)
- Experience working on multidisciplinary teams
- Literacy in data visualisation approaches and techniques
- Front-end web development skills including Javascript, HTML, and CSS are an advantage
- Experience analysing OSINT materials using tools such as Google Earth or similar is desirable

About you
- Excellent creative project management and communication skills
- Ability to storyboard visual articles using Illustrator, Figma or similar (desirable)
- Demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to the role
- Commitment to fostering an inclusive culture and working collaboratively across teams

Qualifications
There are no specific formal qualifications required; however, a strong portfolio demonstrating relevant skills and experience is essential.