Atlantic Media
The Atlantic is seeking a Senior Visuals Editor to join our visuals team. This person will report to the Visuals Director overseeing our digital coverage, and will play a key role in helping manage the flow of short-term assignments and ensuring strong, timely visual execution across our daily journalism. They will also commission and art direct assignments as needed.
We’re looking for someone with excellent news judgment, strong organizational and communication skills, and a sharp visual eye. You might come from a background in photo editing, art direction, or editorial production. The ideal candidate should be able to work collaboratively, move quickly, and provide guidance when needed to a busy and ambitious team to ensure that all work meets The Atlantic’s design, production, and editorial standards. They should have familiarity working with sensitive and complex subject matter, and the ability to be both creative and nimble in responding to news. The role will at times include night, early-morning, and weekend work.
Responsibilities will include:
Support the Visuals Director in coordinating the day-to-day visual needs of the newsroom, including tracking short-term assignments and helping ensure clarity around deadlines and expectations.
Act as a bridge between editors and visuals team members—keeping everyone aligned as publishing schedules shift.
Commission and curate visuals (photography and illustration) for daily stories, features, and special projects
Contribute to improving workflows and systems to help the team operate more efficiently as we grow
Collaborate with teams across the newsroom to maintain consistency and quality and to help innovate as we grow our visual operations
Qualifications of the ideal candidate:
10+ years of experience in a newsroom or editorial environment, ideally in a visuals-related role
Strong editorial judgment, with a demonstrated ability to make thoughtful, timely visual decisions in a fast-paced setting
Experience commissioning photography or illustration and working with creatives
Comfortable tracking multiple assignments at once and communicating clearly across teams
A collaborative approach and a desire to support a team
Salary Minimum: $105,000; Salary Maximum: $125,000
About The Atlantic:
The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time. We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture. As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.
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The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities. We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy. TheAtlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status. Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.
About Us
At The Atlantic, our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our commitment to advancing ideas that matter and sparking global conversation, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are generous, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference. The Atlantic looks for t hree “pillar gifts” in you, and everyone else. In all of us, these are more aspirational than actual, but they are central in our intentions. SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY The Atlantic seeks in its ranks a spirit of generosity—a natural disposition in each colleague toward service and selfless conduct. FORCE OF IDEAS At the center of The Atlantic is a belief in the power of ideas. Our highest work is bringing rigor, insight, and honesty to
their examination. We endeavor to cultivate new ideas, challenge existing ones, and seek out those that otherwise might go unheard. We do this because
ideas have consequences—the power to shape our lives, our work, and the world around us. SENSE OF BELONGING The Atlantic was founded in 1857 as a home for intellectual debate, but also in opposition to the great moral injustice of its time. More than a century and a half later, we continue to believe our purpose is larger than ourselves.
At its best, our culture reflects this calling. It is characterized by goodwill and a deep sense of mutual concern. Our goal is not
consensus—on the contrary, our best work may be born of spirited exchange and a diversity of views. What brings us together is a commitment to the mission of the Atlantic, to our readers, and to one another.
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At The Atlantic, our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our commitment to advancing ideas that matter and sparking global conversation, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are generous, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference. The Atlantic looks for t hree “pillar gifts” in you, and everyone else. In all of us, these are more aspirational than actual, but they are central in our intentions. SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY The Atlantic seeks in its ranks a spirit of generosity—a natural disposition in each colleague toward service and selfless conduct. FORCE OF IDEAS At the center of The Atlantic is a belief in the power of ideas. Our highest work is bringing rigor, insight, and honesty to
their examination. We endeavor to cultivate new ideas, challenge existing ones, and seek out those that otherwise might go unheard. We do this because
ideas have consequences—the power to shape our lives, our work, and the world around us. SENSE OF BELONGING The Atlantic was founded in 1857 as a home for intellectual debate, but also in opposition to the great moral injustice of its time. More than a century and a half later, we continue to believe our purpose is larger than ourselves.
At its best, our culture reflects this calling. It is characterized by goodwill and a deep sense of mutual concern. Our goal is not
consensus—on the contrary, our best work may be born of spirited exchange and a diversity of views. What brings us together is a commitment to the mission of the Atlantic, to our readers, and to one another.
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