[JOB] NY Public Radio, Interaction Designer, Data Visualization

As a part of WNYC’s Data News Unit, you will work hand-in-hand with reporters, producers and editors to build news visualizations and interactive projects produced by WNYC News, The Brian Lehrer Show, It’s A Free Country, New Jersey Public Radio and other news/information services of New York Public Radio. You will work as part of an agile team, and be integrated with the product-design and developer staffs of New York Public Radio as a whole.

• Participate in conceiving data news visualizations and applications
• Develop storyboards, mockups, prototypes, and production ready data news visualizations and applications
• Assist with ongoing development to improve the look/feel and experience of WNYC News and editorial content, including building data tools and guidelines for journalists.
• Engage in local and open-source communities for data visualization and news-application design
• Maintain awareness of industry trends in technology, data news, design and media to include programming, content, community, user interfaces and information architecture

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or 4 years relevant work experience
• 3+ years relevant work experience, including demonstrated experience in designing usable web-based interfaces
• Expert CSS & HTML skills
• Solid knowledge of Adobe Photoshop (or Fireworks) & InDesign
• Knowledge of JavaScript for rapid prototyping purposes
• Strong, clean visual design sense
• Proven ability to act as a leader in communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale, all within a user-centered design process
• Must be self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload, and meet critical project milestones and deadlines
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build good working relationships

Pluses:

• Experience with news and journalism
• Understanding of statistical concepts
• Mobile and tablet design

All positions at NYPR require:

• The intellectual and emotional depth, maturity, self-confidence and interpersonal skills to work effectively with the senior leadership team, colleagues, staff and external partners and provide motivation at all levels of an organization
• Excellent communication skills—both oral and written—with an impressive reputation for building and maintaining relationships with people at all levels of an organization, across a diverse range of cultural, generational, ethnic, racial, educational and social backgrounds
• Use of a computer, telephone and other office and/or broadcast equipment; ability to communicate effectively through a variety of methods  including but not limited to; Microsoft Office software, internet based applications for internal and external communications
•  Affinity for New York Public Radio; WNYC and/or WQXR content and mission a plus

Note:    The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.  Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.

New York Public Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer and invites and encourages qualified applicants from all walks of life.

Please submit cover letter with salary requirements and resume.  Also for this role, Portfolio submission is required via web url.New York Public Radio must receive all information requested in order to consider your candidacy.  

“To make the mind more curious, the heart more open and the spirit more joyful.”  – New York Public Radio Mission Statement

New York Public Radio is home to three of the country’s leading public radio stations—WNYC 93.9 FM, WNYC AM 820, and WQXR 105.9 FM—as well as the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. As America’s most listened-to public radio stations* and New York’s premier multi-platform public radio franchise, it collectively reaches a monthly audience of more than11.5 million.

WNYC and wnyc.org: WNYC is a major producer of original, award-winning local and national content. It originates for public radio nationwide programs and podcasts like Radiolab, The Takeaway, Freakonomics, On The Media and Studio 360. WNYC maintains a centralized newsroom and its award-winning reporters contribute regularly to online and local news broadcasts and to the nationally-distributed news programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace and The Takeaway. Also, WNYC produces the signature daily programs The Brian Lehrer Show, The Leonard Lopate Show,Soundcheck and New Sounds. Five WNYC programs — Radiolab, On the Media, Studio 360, The Brian Lehrer Show, and Radio Rookies, its youth journalism program serving teens in all five boroughs, have been recognized with George Foster Peabody Awards, the highest honor in broadcasting journalism. WNYC’s original content is available to people wherever they are via mobile platforms, online audio streams, podcasts and social media.  In addition, WNYC presents the best national offerings from networks National Public Radio, Public Radio International, American Public Media, and the British Broadcasting Company, broadcasting a wide range of daily news, talk, cultural and music programming.

WQXR and wqxr.org: Classical 105.9 WQXR is New York City’s sole classical music station, presenting new and landmark classical recordings as well as live concerts from the Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, among other New York City venues, immersing listeners in the city’s rich musical life.  WQXR.org  also hosts Q2, an HD broadcast and web stream dedicated to discovery, giving listeners an opportunity to experience exceptional music, classic and contemporary, that they likely have not heard before.  WQXR’s smart, engaging hosts provide distinctive context for the music they love to play. And wqxr.org serves the global classical music community through online listening, playlists, host blogs and New York City cultural news. WQXR also offers Metropolitan Opera Radio Saturday Matinee Broadcasts, The Philharmonic This Week, McGraw Hill Young Artists Showcase evenings, and Symphony Hall.

The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space and thegreenespace.org:  Our street-front broadcast studio and performance venue produces a full season of original programming – as well as WNYC and WQXR shows, concerts and events – for live, radio and online audiences. It is becoming an anchor in our growing, exciting Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan.

(*Source:  Arbitron)

Genaro L. Baez|Director, Staffing and Employee Engagement

New York Public Radio

160 Varick Street, New York NY 10013

T: 646.829.4375|Cell: 917.696.5918

E: gbaez@nypublicradio.org