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Science Editor
Slate is looking for an editor to marshal our science and health coverage. Ideal candidates will be smart, funny, and energetic; have excellent news sense and good judgment; possess the skepticism and expertise to discern important scientific and medical work from single-study supposition; and be deft, sensitive editors. Experience on the science beat is preferred, as is experience working online. Good humor is a big plus, collegiality a prerequisite. The position is full-time, on staff, with benefits, and can be located in New York or Washington, D.C. The deadline for applications is Thursday, Jan. 28 at 5 p.m. ET.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives
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Senior Editor
Slate is hiring a senior editor. Ideal candidates will be smart, funny, and energetic; have excellent news sense and good judgment; write sparkling copy and headlines; and be deft, sensitive editors. Five years editorial experience required; experience working online strongly preferred. Good humor a big plus; collegiality a prerequisite. The position is full-time, on staff, with benefits. Slate welcomes candidates from all backgrounds. The position can be located in New York or Washington, D.C. The deadline for applications is Thursday, Jan. 28 at 5 p.m. ET.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Digital Advertising Planner/Marketing Strategist
With more than a decade of award-winning podcasts and deep knowledge of the medium, Slate built Panoply, the premium podcast network of top publishers, writers, and thinkers. We offer our sophisticated listeners the highest quality audio content, and we offer our marketing partners maximum engagement with extraordinary audiences in a brand safe environment.
We are looking for an advertising sales planner/marketing specialist to get in on the ground floor of this exciting opportunity. This position will operate within the Slate structure with a focus on building out our podcast business.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to join a close-knit, smart team of a rapidly growing audio-on-demand business, operating as if they are within a start-up, but with the support of Slate and Graham Holdings Co.
Requirements:
Manage and execute the completion and fulfillment of RFPs including all Excel templates and PPT presentations
Work closely with the Slate.com planning and sales team to educate on all the new podcast marketing and network offerings
Build plans and strategy around podcasts, and occasionally help build podcast advertising into Slate plans
Participate in the development and manage the planning of innovative digital solutions for potential and current advertising partners (including pre-sale idea generation, management approvals, and final pitch)
Work closely with sales reps, ad operations, research, and ad innovation/custom solutions departments to create and package podcast programs
Create new sales materials for both the podcast network and individual podcasts
Work with our podcast partners on occasion to attain assets, get appropriate approvals
Proactively develop advertising prospects lists
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree
1+ years digital and/or radio advertising experience
Excellent project management, analytic, and communication skills
Creative, with an eye for detail
Highly proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, InDesign, and Word
Proficient in Photoshop, Doubleclick/MediaVisor, comScore, @Plan, Box.com, and SalesForce
Self-starter and an original thinker
Bonus Points:
Digital Ad Planning experience
Agency or media background
Design experience
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Sales Director, West Coast
We are looking for a sales director to lead our West Coast team. S/he will build upon the current base of advertisers and prospects, by targeting direct response advertisers as well as bringing top brand advertising.
Are you this person?
Ability and desire to work within a close-knit team
Strong strategic and negotiation skills
5+ years experience working in a media sales role that includes account management, with a consultative sales approach
Ability to help clients develop new integrated marketing opportunities
Appreciation of clients’ business needs and resourcefulness in creating solutions to meet their challenges
Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of senior client and agency contacts
Strong interpersonal skills
Detail-oriented and ability to work on own initiative
Desire to work within an environment that balances the successful achievement of commercial goals with a fun professional atmosphere
Experience selling custom creative programming
Excellent idea generator with strong storytelling capabilities
3+ years managing a sales team
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Advertising Product Manager
Help shape the future of digital advertising! Slate’s traffic and revenue has grown dramatically over the past several years, leaving us well positioned for continued expansion through new distribution channels and emerging technologies, from Facebook Instant Articles to Apple News to virtual reality. We’re focused on making powerful native content and display advertising experiences available wherever readers engage with our content.
We’re looking for a forward-thinking, entrepreneurially minded product manager with advertising industry experience to (1) lead the definition and framing of our advertising products, (2) guide ideation and implementation of innovative ad units that both advertisers and readers find unique and compelling, and (3) coordinate advertising strategies across our custom, display, programmatic, technology, and editorial teams.
Responsibilities
Lead a cross-functional team of world-class engineers and designers to conceptualize and build high-impact digital advertising products, whether by using in-house resources or by working with third-party creative vendors.
Formalize ad product definition through pricing and distinct benefit sets across direct, native, and programmatic sales lines with an eye towards maximizing revenue and advertiser satisfaction over the long term.
Educate planning and sales representatives on new products, and provide them with designed collateral that will help them to close deals
Define and regularly analyze key performance metrics, use market research, incorporate advertiser feedback received via the sales team, and conduct user testing research, to iterate on existing ad products and generate requirements for new ones.
Stay abreast of all trends in the rapidly evolving digital publishing and advertising market, from new advertising units to new content distribution platforms, and closely monitor competition pricing and offerings
Support the sales team’s use of technology, project management processes, and data to understand product performance and grow our proposal success rate
Coordinate Slate’s strategy for responding to ad block users
Coordinate with members of the product and technology team to align the advertising experience with the overall user experience on the site
Advocate for and develop advertising strategies for potential new distribution platforms we might pursue, like Snapchat or Apple TV.
Required Experience and Skills
2–4 years of advertising industry experience
2-4 years of experience managing digital technology projects
Relationships with major advertising creative and technology vendors a strong plus
High-level understanding of basic front-end Web technologies strongly preferred
Experience working closely with software engineers
Great design sensibility required; the ability to create examples through wireframes, mockups, or prototypes is strongly preferred
Experience using analytics tools like Google Analytics or Omniture Site Catalyst strongly preferred
Experience with Doubleclick for Publishers and Polar MediaVoice a plus
Exceptional organizational, communication, and analytical skills
Passion for media and digital advertising
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Technical Account Manager, Panoply
Slate magazine helped pioneer podcasting back in 2005, but in the years since, the tech behind on-demand audio has barely changed.
But it’s about to.
In 2015, Slate launched Panoply, which brings millions of listeners the smartest conversations that podcasting has to offer through 50 shows from New York magazine, Vulture, Huffington Post, Gretchen Rubin, Tablet, Sports Illustrated, and many more.
Panoply is a tight-knit group of some of the smartest engineers, producers, entrepreneurs, and thinkers, and today we’re looking for a brilliant technical account manager to help us chart the future of podcasting.
Working at Panoply means flexible office hours, casual dress, full benefits, competitive salaries, an office just steps from the metro exit, team happy hours, and working alongside our colleagues at Slate. We have a friendly work environment, but coolness under pressure and comfort with tight deadlines are a must.
Position Overview
Panoply is a fast-paced and growing business, built on a solid technological foundation. Your job will be to help it hum along and guide it forward.
The ideal candidate is a technically savvy podcast enthusiast, looking to forge a career path at the intersection of media, tech, and product. You’ll work most closely with the product and engineering team, armed with a deep knowledge of our technical infrastructure. You’ll demo, train, QA, and gather feedback from customers and users that will be incorporated into the product.
Responsibilities
Overseeing QA and organizing user testing
Assisting in customer onboarding
Assisting in stats data hygiene
Writing user-facing documentation and FAQs
Selecting and facilitating use of internal toolset
Supporting and providing information to product managers with respect to the product backlog
Front-line customer support and bug filing
Assisting with demos
Requirements
A willingness to work closely with users to guide them through technical workflows
Familiarity with or an eagerness to learn about:
Any relevant technology underpinning our business, such as RSS and the MP3 codec
The landscape of podcasting businesses, including apps for listeners, content networks, ad sales and ad tech companies, independent creators, and studios for hire
The many flavors of podcast monetization.
Basic principles of product management and product development practices.
Ad operations
Business intelligence and analytics tools
Project management tools and practices
A passion for:
Making things work well
Making software that solves real problems
Bonus Points
An in-depth knowledge of the subjects mentioned above
Knowing how to pronounce Panoply
The Nuts and Bolts
This position reports to Panoply’s director of product and is located in Washington, D.C. Salary is commensurate with experience. Panoply welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Staff Writer, Moneybox
Slate is hiring a full-time business and economics writer for its Moneybox team. We’re looking for a generalist, someone who can help our readers make sense of topics as far-ranging as the latest market swoons, Silicon Valley moonshots, consumer brand revolutions, and economic policy shifts. We’ll expect you to write sharp, timely, incisive commentaries on topics in the news, and we’ll count on you to start fascinating conversations and carve out new, exciting beats of your own. We want someone who can work fast and won’t hesitate to pick up the phone, someone who can write with style and help our readers understand the most important ways to think about the business world. Candidates should have at least two years experience covering business. Digital experience preferred, comfort with multimedia storytelling a plus (especially if you like awesome graphs and charts). If you know who David Ricardo is and find the idea of Jamie Dimon and Janet Yellen singing karaoke hilarious but can also spitball about the competing market ideologies depicted in Harry Potter, you’ll probably fit in.
The position can be located in New York or Washington, D.C. Interested candidates should send a résumé and a cover letter, with links to some of your best work, explaining how you’d contribute to the Moneybox team. Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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VP, National Sales
Slate is looking for a dynamic digital sales executive with passion and understanding of the custom creative market to lead a national sales team.
The candidate should have existing management experience or demonstrated exceptional leadership qualities. Experience in growing accounts, including a solid understanding of the internal and external nuances to achieve success are a must. A strong capability to sell creative concepts and ideas is a plus. The candidate must be comfortable working at high levels across clients and agencies.
Responsibilities:
Manage and further develop an existing sales team that is already strong, and recruit, train, and develop additional team members
Develop best practices and discipline within the team, so Slate is considered a top partner with its clients
Manage the sales pipeline to provide accurate planning and reporting of pacing to quarterly goals
Make regular, high-level sales calls to have a presence in the marketplace and actively engage in the team's success
Take leadership on influencing products, solutions, and communication across disciplines at Slate
Achieve or exceed revenue goals on a regular basis.
Are you this person?
Ability and desire to work within a close-knit team
Strong strategic and negotiation skills
Five-plus years experience working in a media sales role that includes account management, with a consultative sales approach
Ability to help clients develop new integrated marketing opportunities
Appreciation of clients’ business needs and resourcefulness in creating solutions to meet their challenges
Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of senior client and agency contacts
Strong interpersonal skills
Detail-oriented and ability to work on own initiative
Desire to work within an environment that balances the successful achievement of commercial goals with a fun professional atmosphere
Experience selling custom creative programming
Excellent idea generator with strong storytelling capabilities
Three-plus years managing a sales team
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Junior Designer, Slate Custom
The junior designer will work with content strategists under the direction of the creative director to bring to life campaign executions for brand clients and pitches.
You must be a team player who has a passion for storytelling on every platform.
What You’ll Do:
Develop client-facing presentations in response to client RFPs
Help concept, design, and develop high-quality branded content in collaboration with other designers, writers, project managers, developers, and other team members
Find the balance between Slate.com’s voice and brand voice in RFP responses as well as campaign execution
Gotta-Haves:
Expert knowledge in Adobe Creative SuiteA strong portfolio reflecting design and deck building experience
Ability to handle multiple projects at once
Attention to detail
Nice-to-Haves:
Background in new business strategy is a plus
Interactive design is a plus
Animation, motion graphics, and Final Cut experience is a plus
Please submit a cover letter, résumé, and relevant portfolio samples.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Creative Strategist, Slate Custom
We are looking for an innovative creative strategist with a deep understanding of brands, a passion for storytelling, and insights into the future of content for Slate Custom, our internal creative agency with an editorial voice. Slate Custom launched three years ago, well ahead of the herd and before “native” was part of the digital vocabulary. We bring together content strategy, editorial, content creation, design, and video disciplines to create programs for advertisers that disrupt the way people think about branded content.
The creative strategist will help set the tone for all custom programs. He or she will be in charge of aiding in brainstorms for RFPs and executing the final response sent to the client.
This role requires someone excited about branded content that has a willingness to explore various verticals and is ready to push the envelope with innovative, brand-relevant content. Outstanding collaborative skills are a must since you will have a close working relationship with creative, advertising sales and planning, project management, product development, ad ops, and editorial teams.
What You’ll Do:
Manage the RFP response process from a creative standpoint: from organizing creative brainstorms, to writing the response copy, and working with a designer on response decks and mocks
Synthesize and write descriptions based on ideas of others
Find the balance between directly promotional and purely journalistic
Use understanding of brands to create thoughtful, personalized, and relevant content program proposals
Conduct research for proposed content strategies
Stay up to speed on content programs at competitive publishers
Must Haves:
A B.A./B.S. or M.A./M.S. in communications, marketing, advertising, or a related field
2–3 years experience at a creative agency or at a publisher as a content strategist, copywriter, creative strategist, or brand strategist
Strong, witty writer of both long-form proposals and short-form descriptions and headlines
Encourages others’ ideas, the kind of person you want in a brainstorm
Conceptual thinker and research-driven
Can strategize content programs across all media (video, editorial, interactive, events, podcast, etc.)
Deadline- and detail-oriented, incredibly proactive
Thrives in a fast-paced environment
Embraces a startup atmosphere with a willingness to wear multiple hats
Strong teamwork/communication skills
Nice-to-Haves:
Experience strategizing branded content programs (as opposed to commercial campaigns)
Background working for brands in finance, business, and/or tech verticals
Journalistic writing/editing experience
Network of creatives: writers, designers, strategists
Knowledge of publisher branded content space
Please submit a writing sample (a RFP response is preferable) in addition to your résumé and cover letter.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Video Editor/Producer
Slate is looking for a high-energy, self-motivated editor/shooter/producer. Must have experience working in fast-paced deadline-driven environments. Our small, flexible team is looking for someone who is: smart, witty, proactive, solution seeking, organized, efficient, creative, thoughtfully communicative, detail-oriented, a team player, hardworking, instinctive, can pivot when news breaks, and takes direction well. The ideal candidate can easily navigate the digital landscape and possesses a nose for viral content. At Slate, every idea is heard. It’s the perfect place for those looking to spread their wings. Entrepreneurial attitudes are recognized, rewarded, and admired—the hungrier you are, the more you will excel.
Technical skills required: master of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Canon is your middle name. Experience writing scripts for video. This editor/shooter/producer will be tasked with conceiving, pitching, and creating original video content for Slate that is insightful, off-beat, on-brand, engaging, and shareable.
Please include your résumé and add your cover letter and reel as an attachment. Salary commensurate with experience.
Slate is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to sourcing applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives and all candidates are evaluated solely on their qualifications to perform the work.
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Ruby on Rails Developer, Panoply
Since Slate magazine helped pioneer podcasting back in 2005, the technology powering on-demand audio has barely changed
But it’s about to.
In 2015, Slate launched Panoply, which brings millions of listeners the smartest conversations that podcasting has to offer through 50 shows from the New York Times Magazine, Vulture, Huffington Post, Gretchen Rubin, Tablet, Sports Illustrated, and many more.
Panoply is a tight-knit group of some of the smartest engineers, producers, entrepreneurs, and thinkers, and today we’re looking for a brilliant Ruby on Rails developer to help us chart the future of podcasting.
Working at Panoply means flexible office hours, casual dress, full benefits, competitive salaries, an office 20 steps from the metro exit, team happy hours, and working alongside our colleagues at Slate. We have a friendly work environment, but coolness under pressure and comfort with short time horizons are a must.
We're based in Washington, D.C., and New York with an outpost in Sydney. We love locals, but if you're a perfect fit, we'd like to meet you no matter where you live.
The Ideal Candidate Should Have:
Strong experience with Ruby on Rails
A focus on object-oriented design, beautiful, well-tested, and maintainable code
Knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JQuery
Good knowledge of relational databases
Experience or familiarity with agile development
An eagerness to communicate, work collaboratively, pair program, and solve complex problems
A passion for innovation, pushing the boundaries, and trying new tools and technologies
The Nuts and Bolts:
We’re all in on micro services, and while the majority run on Rails, we also have services built on node.js and go—all communicating over RabbitMQ.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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West Coast Account Manager, Panoply
With more than a decade of award-winning podcasts and deep knowledge of the medium, Slate built Panoply, the premium podcast network of top publishers, writers and thinkers. We offer our sophisticated listeners the highest quality audio content, and we offer our marketing partners maximum engagement with extraordinary audiences in a brand safe environment.
We are looking for a salesperson to get in on the ground floor of this exciting opportunity. This position will operate within the Slate structure but focus on building out Panoply’s podcast business.
For someone who wants to get in at the very beginning of the rapidly growing audio-on-demand business, operating as if within a startup but with the support of Slate and Graham Holdings Co., this is an exceptional opportunity.
The successful applicant will report to Slate’s West Coast manger and work along side Slate’s exceptional sales and marketing team, supporting and educating them on Slate’s podcasts, our partner podcasts, and the audio-on-demand business. She or he will build upon the current base of advertisers and prospects, by targeting direct response advertisers as well as bringing top brand advertisers into the medium.
Are You This Person?
Ability and desire to work within a close-knit team
Strong strategic and negotiation skills
Two-plus years’ experience working in a media sales role that includes account management, with a consultative sales approach
Ability to help clients develop new integrated marketing opportunities
Appreciation of client’s business needs and resourcefulness in creating solutions to meet their challenges
Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of senior client and agency contacts
Strong interpersonal skills
Detail-oriented and ability to work on own initiative
Desire to work within an environment that balances the successful achievement of commercial goals with a fun professional atmosphere
Experience with digital or audio sales
College degree
This position will be located on the West Coast, either San Francisco or L.A.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Copy Editor/Web Producer
Slate is seeking a full-time copy editor/Web producer to join either our New York or Washington, D.C., offices. Candidates will be quick-thinking and exacting editors with a passion for the English language. The job entails copy-editing content, guiding it through the production process, developing a symbiotic relationship with our publishing system, and having a sense of ownership and responsibility over what appears in the magazine. Experience at an online publication is strongly preferred, but not required. The ability to work fast, independently, and with good humor in a small team environment is a must. This is a full-time position with benefits.
Qualifications:
Experience in online or print publishing
Working knowledge of AP style
A healthy obsession with grammar and usage
A knack for problem-solving and troubleshooting
Familiarity with content management systems a plus
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Front-End Designer/Developer, Panoply
Slate magazine helped pioneer podcasting back in 2005, but in the 10 years since, the technology powering on-demand audio has barely changed.
But it’s about to.
In 2015, Slate launched Panoply, which brings millions of listeners the smartest conversation that podcasting has to offer through 50 shows from the New York Times Magazine, Vulture, Huffington Post, Gretchen Rubin, Tablet, Sports Illustrated, and many more.
Panoply is a tightknit group of some of the smartest engineers, producers, entrepreneurs, and thinkers. We’re looking for a brilliant front-end designer/developer to help us chart the future of podcasting from our offices in Washington, D.C.
Working at Panoply means flexible office hours, casual dress, full benefits, competitive salaries, an office 20 steps from the Metro exit, team happy hours, and working alongside our colleagues at Slate. We have a friendly work environment, but coolness under pressure and comfort with short time horizons are a must.
The Position
We need a user-experience-oriented front-end designer/developer who relishes in the design process—from dashed-out whiteboard concepts to full-fidelity design. We want somebody who can debate the finer points of UI/UX, analyze the DOM, prioritize page performance, and implement designs that work for all screens.
You must have a strong visual eye along with expertise in the standard Web stack and be able to communicate clearly with co-workers and clients.
Responsibilities
Create design guidelines and standards to ensure consistent user experiences across platforms
Collaborate closely with stakeholders and the product team to conceptualize new products and features wherever user needs are not being met
Produce prototypes of varying degrees of fidelity
Shepherd projects from wireframes through full visual design and development
Follow through on designs with clean, performant code
Walk colleagues and stakeholders through design decisions
Continually lift the standard for design across the organization through your work
Troubleshoot and solve problems when testing and publishing new products
Participate in meetings with nontechnical staff regarding user experience
Requirements
Someone who’s hard-working, smart, and nice
Experience with HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript
Experience with considerations needed when building sites for mobile devices
Experience with tools for analyzing and diagnosing Web page performance
Excitement about new technologies and techniques, along with a strong desire to learn and evolve
Experience with git
Bonus Points if You:
Have experience working in stacks such as Ruby on Rails
Have worked with slim and sass
Have designed audio interfaces
Have a love for all things podcast
Can pronounce Panoply properly
About Panoply
Panoply, launched in 2015, is an innovative, full-service podcast network for media brands, authors, personalities, and premier organizations.
Panoply provides production, audience development, sales, and technology services for its expanding number of partners. We’re a fast-moving team aiming to build an industry-leading company led by high-quality content, innovative sales solutions, and industry leading technology.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Design Director
Slate is seeking a design director to elevate Slate’s visual impact across all platforms. The opening offers a rare opportunity to work with Slate’s world-class editorial, tech, product, and sales teams to lead a smart, innovative, successful company to the next level.
The design director will oversee all editorial design for Slate’s award-winning flagship site, lead product design for Slate’s presentation across platforms, and be the steward of Slate’s visual identity across sales and marketing materials. The brief is to ensure a beautiful, consistent, reader-centric experience wherever users encounter Slate.
Ideal candidates will exhibit an elegant, exacting design sensibility and excitement about exploring the frontiers of digital design. Crisp communication skills and deft managerial ability are musts; we also love excuses to add smart, fun, funny people to our uniquely engaged and inventive team. Candidates must also be comfortable with collaboration and data-driven decision-making: The design director will be leading efforts to improve Slate’s overall reader experience through design, measuring improvements whenever possible. And the design director will work directly with product, editorial, development, and business leads to collaboratively define new products and enhance existing ones.
Responsibilities:
Ensure that the overall look and feel of the site is best in class, appealing both to readers and advertisers.
Manage a team of five.
Lead design reviews with stakeholders around the organization.
Provide responsive designs to developers in a manner that makes implementation as true and frictionless as possible.
Validate designs internally and externally in conjunction with the product team through clickable prototypes and user testing.
Oversee the production of all editorial art for the site, including but not limited to: art to accompany daily news, analysis, and commentary; art to accompany ambitious projects and packages; recurring visual elements; designs used in on-site and social promotions; and more.
Offer legal and aesthetic guidance to Slate bloggers selecting their own art for stories.
Develop design templates for Slate marketing and sales materials.
Oversee the creation of collateral for advertiser pitches.
Manage the art and design budgets.
Qualifications:
This is a senior role. You must have seven years experience, including prior management experience.
Slate is a digital-only magazine, so strong candidates will have a focus on modern digital design, including responsive design.
You must be in NYC or D.C., and you must be comfortable communicating with and managing people who are remote.
Slate is built primarily of words; strong written and oral communication skills are a must.
Nice to Have:
Experience designing mobile apps, including user flows, motion, and animation.
Experience with current UX design tools, such as Sketch.
Some HTML/CSS experience.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Video Blogger
Slate is hiring a part-time video blogger to write several times a week on the best new video on the Web. Ideal candidates will be fast, smart writers who tend to be the first to see the videos everyone else will be sharing tomorrow. They must feel as comfortable writing about last night’s cable news as they are about animals, or new movies, or surprising footage from a science journal. They will understand Slate well enough to know a perfect video for our audience when they see it. Candidates should be able to work independently and be judicious communicators.
To apply, please upload a résumé and cover letter that includes a very brief note introducing yourself and a few examples of videos you think should be featured on the site.
Qualifications: Candidates should have some writing experience in online magazines. No video editing experience necessary, but you should know what an MP4 and Brightcove is. This is a contract position, and pay is commensurate with experience.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Freelance Video Editor/Producer
Slate is seeking an energetic, resourceful, hard-working, detail-oriented creative thinker to produce/edit a weekly video series. Responsibilities include: video editing, writing, producing, and shooting. The ideal candidate would have excellent news and editorial judgement, proficiency is FCP or Adobe Premiere (After Effects a plus) and a background in all phases of digital production.
The job is not office-based—our freelancers work from home on their own equipment. This is a part-time position. Day rate is commensurate with experience. Please include a résumé as well as a link to your reel or body of work.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. To apply for this position, click here.
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INTERNSHIPS
Slate Custom Design Intern
Our Slate Custom team is seeking a spring design intern to gain experience by working with content strategists under the direction of the creative director to bring to life campaign executions for brand clients and pitches.
You would gain experience by contributing to the development of client-facing presentations in response to client RFPs, as well as the conceptualization, design, and development of high-quality branded content in collaboration with other designers, writers, project managers, developers, and other team members.
You must be:
Hyperorganized and detail-oriented
Curious and enthusiastic
A fan of good stories (in any media)
Collaborative by nature; values others’ good ideas
You should have:
Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
A strong desire to learn design and deck building
Ability to handle multiple projects at once
Some experience either with previous internships or relevant course work
Nice-to-haves
Interactive design is a plus
Animation, motion graphics, and Final Cut experience is a plus
Please submit a cover letter, résumé, and relevant portfolio samples.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Slate Custom Production Intern
Our Slate Custom team is seeking a spring intern to gain experience by contributing to the following:
Video, photo, podcast, and digital productions
Production assistance on local shoots
Talent and location scouting
Research
Logging audio recordings and/or video footage
You must be:
Curious and enthusiastic
Hyperorganized and detail-oriented
A fan of good stories (in any media)
Somewhat experienced either with previous internships or relevant coursework
Excited by the publisher branded content sphere
Collaborative by nature; values others’ good ideas
Please submit a cover letter and résumé.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Panoply Custom Studios Intern
With more than a decade of award-winning podcasts and deep knowledge of the medium, Slate built Panoply, the premium podcast network of top publishers and thinkers. We offer our sophisticated listeners the highest quality audio content, and we offer our marketing partners maximum engagement with extraordinary audiences within a brand safe environment. Panoply Custom Studios is the branded content division of Panoply. This internship is paid hourly.
We are seeking a spring intern to gain podcast production experience by contributing to the following:
Researching potential guests
Fact-checking
Editing audio
Prepping potential interview questions
Organizing talent contracts and spreadsheets
Basic writing of interview preps
Logging and transcribing audio
Required: Passion for podcasts and storytelling. A desire to learn.
Added bonus: Experience editing audio.
Goals of the internship: To complete the program with all required skills to enter the workforce as a podcast producer.
This is a part-time internship working two to three days a week in our New York office.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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EDITORIAL INTERNSHIPS
Slate Plus Editorial Intern
Slate is hiring an editorial intern for Slate Plus, our membership program!
Candidates must be available to work up to 29 hours per week in Slate’s New York office. The position involves writing, editing, and some light audio editing (we'll train you). The ideal candidate is an idea-generating machine who works quickly and independently. To apply, include a résumé, one clip or writing sample, a cover letter that doesn’t put us to sleep, and a 300-word critique of Slate’s membership program. Please upload all of these application materials as one attachment. This is a six-month internship. Deadline to apply is Nov. 30, 2015.
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Slate hires paid interns for the spring, summer, and fall. We offer internships in the following departments: Culture, Politics, Video, The Slatest, and Photo and Art. More information about each internship is below.
The deadline for all summer internships is March 15. The deadline for all fall internships is July 30. The deadline for all spring internships is Nov. 30.
New York Editorial Internship
Candidates for the culture internship must be available to work in Slate’s New York office 30 hours per week. They must be highly organized, have a proven interest in the arts, and be very familiar with Slate. They must also be able to work quickly, efficiently, and without much supervision. Strong writing and editing skills are required. To apply, include a cover letter that clearly outlines your availability and cultural interests as well as a 400-word Brow Beat post about a cultural topic that interests you. Upload your cover letter and the assignment above as one attachment.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
D.C. Editorial Internship
Candidates for the fall D.C. editorial internship must be available to work in Slate’s Washington, D.C. office 30 hours per week. They must be highly organized, have a proven interest in journalism, and be very familiar with Slate. They must also be able to work quickly, efficiently, and without much supervision. There will be opportunity for writing blog posts and articles. To apply, include a résumé; and a cover letter that includes a 300-word critique of any Slate story from the past year; and three clips or writing samples. At least some of the clips should relate to politics, policy, the law, science, or other Washington-related topics. Upload your cover letter and the assignments above as one attachment.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Slate Video Internship
Candidates for the Slate Video internship must be highly energetic, organized, detail-oriented, responsible, self-starting individuals looking to pursue a career in digital video production. They must be able to work quickly and efficiently and possess keen problem-solving skills. Candidates must be proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro (After Effects a plus) and have experience shooting on DSLRs. The internship is three days a week, and candidates must be available to work in Slate’s New York office.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
The Slatest
Candidates for the Slatest internship must be available to work in Slate’s New York office at least two days per week in the spring and fall, and four full days in the summer. Days and hours are flexible. Candidates must be highly energetic, self-starting individuals who have a nose for news, along with sharp and quick writing skills. Applicants should be tech savvy and have great editorial judgment. Previous reporting experience is a plus, and the ability to write clean, quick, and clear copy is a must. To apply, include a résumé and cover letter with a very brief statement of interest.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Photo and Art
Candidates for the photo and art internship must be available to work in Slate’s New York office at least two full days per week in the spring and fall, and four full days in the summer. They should be highly organized visual thinkers who are comfortable working efficiently and without much supervision. Interns will gain hands-on experience editing photos, producing slideshows, and selecting art. This is an editing—not shooting—internship; however, there are ample opportunities for motivated interns to work on special projects and publish their work. Apply here; include a cover letter that clearly outlines your availability, and links to visual works online.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.