Senior Digital Designer

Your Responsibilities:

• Design how Semafor's journalism is presented across digital products, bringing rigorous typography, clear information hierarchy, and strong editorial layout to every story, newsletter, and feature.
• Work with Product and Editorial to envision and design new news products and formats, exploring multiple visual and structural approaches while keeping readability and usability top of mind.
• Partner closely with Editorial, Product, and Engineering to design and launch elegant, technically feasible solutions, from story templates to special editorial packages.
• Hold a high bar for the Semafor reading experience, ensuring our products feel cohesive, considered, and unmistakably ours.
• Own and evolve typographic standards within Semafor's design system and brand guidelines; ensure visual consistency across platforms and teams globally.
• Support Marketing and Audience teams in creating brand materials that align with Semafor's digital products.
• Collaborate with freelancers and other designers, offering critique and feedback that keeps design output consistently high quality.
• Help build a collaborative, productive design culture as a member of Semafor's design team.
• Bring a strong point of view on how other news and media brands design for readers: what they do well, where they fall short, and how Semafor can break through.

What Makes You Qualified

• 5+ years of digital and visual design experience, ideally in media, publishing, or high-growth consumer companies.
• Sophisticated design sensibilities, with deep command of typography, information hierarchy, grid, and layout.
• Editorial design experience: you know how to make complex information clear, scannable, and compelling for readers.
• A portfolio that shows typographic and editorial work alongside shipped digital products.
• Ability to produce high-quality, production-ready designs with a high degree of independence.
• Solid grounding in product and interaction design for web and mobile.
• Experience working with, and ideally developing, design systems.
• Enthusiasm for collaborating with engineers, editors, product managers, and business stakeholders.
• Experience working on diverse teams with colleagues from many different backgrounds.
• Comfort incorporating AI tools into your workflow while holding a strong point of view on craft and quality.
• Experience in a start-up or fast-moving environment, with flexibility and a willingness to jump in wherever needed.
• An entrepreneurial drive and an eagerness to learn and grow as the company scales.
• Passion for the media industry and great journalism.
• Willingness to work in person four days per week in New York and to travel domestically and internationally as needed.

The base salary for this position ranges from $130,000 - $170,000 per year. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility, and qualifications.

Additional Job Details:

This position is based in our New York City office with a hybrid work arrangement (in-office Monday-Thursday, remote Friday).  Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.