New York Magazine is seeking a Design Director to lead its award-winning print and digital design teams. This leader will define and evolve the magazine’s design language, ensuring strong visual storytelling and elegant cohesion across the bi-weekly print magazine, its digital verticals (Intelligencer, Vulture, The Cut, The Strategist, Grub Street, and Curbed), and a range of brand extensions, including events, and consumer revenue initiatives.
The Design Director will oversee the design process from concept to execution, ensuring each story and project reflects and advances our voice while continuing to refine and evolve it. This person must be a skilled, seasoned, and highly organized manager who can balance multiple projects simultaneously and thrive under tight deadlines. The ideal candidate inspires creativity, collaboration, and excellence across teams.
Candidates must have a minimum of ten years of magazine design experience in senior roles, with deep expertise in typography and a nuanced understanding of both print and digital design. They should be fluent in illustration and fine art across multiple mediums, and have a strong track record of discovering and commissioning emerging creative talent. The ideal candidate demonstrates both an instinct for classic taste and the ability to innovate from project to project. They are an idea generator who actively contributes to creative brainstorming and cross-functional collaboration. This role reports to the Creative Director.
This role is based in our New York City office, in person five days per week.
New York Magazine obsessively chronicles the ideas, people, and cultural events that are forever reshaping our world. The New York brand includes the groundbreaking magazine New York, which is published biweekly in print, and six thriving verticals: Intelligencer, delivering national news and sharp commentary on politics, business, technology, and media; the Cut, covering the conversations that matter most to women today; Vulture, the premier destination for culture news, criticism, and service; the Strategist, dedicated to shopping the internet smartly; Curbed, covering cities and city life; and Grub Street, home to food news and authoritative restaurant criticism.
New York Magazine is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what’s now, what’s next, and what’s possible.
As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.
This job is based in our New York, NY office.
This is a permanent, full-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life. You can find more information about our benefits here.
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PAY TRANSPARENCY
The salary range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience.