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About the Role

MarketWatch is seeking a Director of Editorial Design to lead the visual expression of its journalism, helping readers understand money, markets, and the economy through compelling design and innovative storytelling. This leadership role influences presentation across platforms, from homepages and newsletters to social media and new editorial products.

Responsibilities

• Serve as MarketWatch’s senior visual leader, shaping presentation strategy and editorial expression across platforms.
• Shape and evolve a cohesive visual identity for MarketWatch across the website, newsletters, social channels, and other reader-facing products.
• Partner closely with the Editor in Chief, newsroom, and support/development teams on major editorial initiatives, enterprise projects, and reader-experience priorities.
• Lead visual strategy for homepage presentation, story packaging, recurring franchises, and major news moments.
• Establish and maintain design standards that improve clarity, consistency, and reader engagement.
• Work across editorial, product, audience, newsletter, social, video, and marketing teams to create a cohesive reader experience.
• Identify opportunities where presentation, design, and visual storytelling can strengthen journalism and improve reader understanding.
• Oversee visual contributors, freelancers, illustrators, and creative partners, managing budgets for creatives.
• Manage and mentor staff, including a Data & Visuals Journalist and future visual storytelling hires.
• Champion experimentation with emerging storytelling formats, technologies, and workflows, including AI-enabled tools, to improve journalism presentation and consumption.
• Ensure all visual work meets the highest editorial, ethical, and journalistic standards.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in editorial design, visual journalism, digital media, product storytelling, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success leading visual strategy in a newsroom, media company, or digital publishing environment.
• Exceptional visual storytelling skills and a portfolio showcasing innovative editorial work.
• Strong understanding of audience behavior and digital publishing.
• Experience collaborating across editorial, product, audience, social, and marketing teams.
• Ability to translate complex topics into clear, engaging, and accessible visual experiences.
• Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
• Experience managing visual contributors, freelancers, or creative teams.
• Familiarity with UX, product design, and modern digital storytelling approaches.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and evolving audience behaviors.

Skills

• Editorial design
• Visual journalism
• Digital media
• Product storytelling
• Visual strategy
• Visual storytelling
• Audience behavior understanding
• Digital publishing
• Collaboration
• Leadership
• Communication
• Organization
• UX
• Product design
• Digital storytelling
• AI-enabled tools

Location

• New York
• Other locations considered based on merit

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 10+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

• $155,000 - $185,000

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more.
• Optional benefits to meet diverse needs.

About the Company

• MarketWatch is a trusted source of news, analysis, and personal-finance journalism for millions of readers seeking to make smarter decisions about money, markets, and the economy.
• We help readers understand not only what happened, but why it matters and what they can do next.
• As MarketWatch continues to evolve its journalism, products, and audience strategy, we are seeking a creative and ambitious leader to shape how our journalism is experienced across platforms.

Equal Opportunity

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
• EEO/Disabled/Vets