Postmedia News hiring a tablet producer/designer
Postmedia Network Inc. is looking for a full-time Tablet Producer/Designer and visual storyteller to play a leading role in developing content for the company’s forthcoming tablet apps.
Postmedia Network Inc. is looking for a full-time Tablet Producer/Designer and visual storyteller to play a leading role in developing content for the company’s forthcoming tablet apps.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Works closely with tablet producers to develop interactive features and ways of telling stories that are unique to the tablet
- Designs the app’s cover, top stories and complex interactive features
- Provides design and visual-storytelling guidance for tablet content to Postmedia writers, editors, photographers and designers, and staff from Postmedia’s daily newspapers
Qualifications:
- A passion for editorial design and storytelling that uses the tablet’s immersive and interactive qualities
- A proven ability to combine words, still and moving images, graphics and other audio and visual assets to create immersive and interactive experiences
- A proven ability to create informational graphics or data visualizations
- A collaborative style of working
- An ability to innovate and suggest new approaches as technology changes and new opportunities arise
- An interest in and knowledge of a broad range of news and current events
- A high degree of experience using Adobe inDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
- Experience with Adobe DPS, HTML5, motion graphics or video editing is preferred
Should you be interested in this opportunity please forward your cover letter and resume to: careers@postmedia.com
Application Deadline: January 10, 2013
Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
No agencies please.
Tamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She was the associate editor for J-Source from 2013-2014.
