Semafor

Head of Design & Experience

New York, NY · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$220k-$240kDetected 68 days ago

Graphic DesignDesign SystemsMotion DesignProject ManagementBrand StrategyLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

They should bring the creative judgment to elevate the brand, the technical knowledge to guide execution, and the operational discipline to move ambitious work from concept through production at a high standard and high velocity.

Own and evolve Semafor's visual identity as the primary expression of brand and business strategy
Build and govern a unified design system that scales across digital products, editorial surfaces, brand and marketing, and live experiences
Design & Creative Direction
Set the creative bar across all Semafor design work and serve as senior arbiter of creative quality and brand coherence
Provide art direction, feedback, and approval at decision points across digital products, editorial design, brand campaigns, and events
Own the visual design system for Semafor's core reader products, including newsletters, app, website surfaces, editorial franchises, special reports, recurring formats, and new digital products
Establish Semafor's design as a clear source of competitive differentiation in a crowded media landscape
Design Leadership
Build and develop the design function - hire, structure, and develop a team that can span product, brand, editorial, and experiential design disciplines.
Deepen Semafor's design community of practice and clarify the bar for craft excellence

This person must be able to translate Semafor's brand strategy into a cohesive design system that works across screens, stages, spaces, products, and live environments.

The ideal candidate will set Semafor's design vision and elevate our ambition, while orchestrating execution across a variety of design disciplines.

Semafor is a global news platform for an increasingly complex world in which consumers are overwhelmed by too many news sources and unsure what to trust.
We are building Semafor to enable world-class journalists to deliver reporting and insights with rigor in journalistic forms that ensure a new level of transparency.
Our editors and reporters distill the most important stories from all over in formats that uncover the forces shaping the stories, explain the interests behind polarizing narratives, and replenish the stock of shared facts.
As a global platform, Semafor recognizes that smart people can disagree and that informed readers need to understand alternative points of view from competing centers of power and culture in a multi-polar world.
Semafor is seeking a Head of Design & Experience to build Semafor's first design function and lead the next evolution of Semafor's visual identity and experience system across brand, editorial, product, and live journalism platforms.
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