The Athletic

Job Description

The Developer, Graphics will play a crucial role in the growing data and explanatory visualization efforts of The Athletic’s newly formed Graphics team. In this role, you’ll work closely with other graphics developers, designers, engineers, data analysts, editors and reporters to create interactive storytelling, daily sports news graphics and destination pages that inform and inspire our readers. You’ll be expected to pitch and execute your own data and visual-driven stories and graphics, as well as collaborate with our newsroom to elevate our reporting across all of our sports coverage. You will also contribute to our team’s technical infrastructure for developing graphics, including building and maintaining tools, templates and style libraries. To succeed, you should feel comfortable with every part of the graphics creation process, including story pitching, project planning, design, data analysis, development and quality assurance. You’ll be working in a collaborative environment and being able to communicate your vision with other creatives and stakeholders is important to this role. You should be patient and flexible, willing to dive into any stage of a project to help level up the work. You should be perceptive and detail-oriented with a great mind for conceptual thinking and realizing the vision of the project at hand. This role will report to the Managing Editor, Graphics and is a fully remote position for candidates based in the United States or Canada.