Graphics Developer

January 9

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The Athletic

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The Athletic is a sports media company known for comprehensive sports coverage and in-depth reporting across various sports such as football, tennis, Formula 1, golf, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and college sports. It provides high-quality articles, live updates, and expert analysis covering significant events and players in the sports world. The platform features content on various leagues and tournaments, providing insights from well-known journalists and analysts. The Athletic aims to set the standard in sports reporting and offers subscription-based access to its content.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

📱 Media

⚽ Sports

📋 Description

• About Us • The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. • We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. • Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. • Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. • Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe. • About the Role • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 2 years of relevant experience, including time working as a graphics developer, visual journalist, or similar position in a newsroom or similar environment. • Experience designing and building graphics using tools and libraries such as D3.js, Datawrapper, Adobe Illustrator, and Figma. • Experience building graphics and news apps in Svelte or similar frameworks. • Understanding of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). • Experience conducting data analysis using Python, SQL, R or other similar frameworks. • Experience working on concurrent, on-going projects. • A deep knowledge of and an appreciation for journalism, design and data, including data analysis languages and methods of acquiring data, like coding and scraping. • The ability to shape data-based journalism using innovative approaches to storytelling. • An outstanding portfolio showcasing relevant work. • The ability to adapt and think quickly when projects change, timelines shift or scopes vary. • Experience working and collaborating with Product and Engineering teams is a plus. • Experience working in JIRA and Github is a plus. • Knowledge of GIS software (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, Mapbox) and geospatial data analysis techniques is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans. • Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses. • 401k retirement savings plan and employer match. • Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.