Design Director - Leading Creative Vision for New York Magazine

About the Role

New York Magazine is seeking a Design Director to lead its award-winning print and digital design teams. This Design Director remote role 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. As a Design Director remote, you 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.

What You'll Do

• Lead and oversee New York Magazine’s award-winning print and digital design teams, setting a cohesive, forward-thinking creative vision grounded in the brand’s legacy.
• Direct design across the bi-weekly print magazine, six digital verticals, newsletters, and social media.
• Design each issue’s cover in close collaboration with the Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director, from concept through execution.
• Partner with the Creative Director, product design teams, and editorial leadership to extend the brand identity across experiential and revenue-driving initiatives, including events and consumer products.
• Oversee the full print creative process from concept to final execution, ensuring each story reflects and advances the magazine’s voice.
• Identify, commission, and cultivate emerging illustrators and creative contributors.
• Initiate regular story- and project-specific visual brainstorms with art and editorial teams.
• Manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while meeting tight production deadlines.
• Maintain the highest standards of typography, layout, illustration, and art direction across print and digital platforms.
• Collaborate with the Creative Director, Editor-in-Chief, and senior leadership on the magazine’s long-term creative strategy.

Requirements

• Minimum of ten years of magazine design experience in senior roles.
• Deep expertise in typography and a nuanced understanding of both print and digital design.
• Fluency in illustration and fine art across multiple mediums.
• Strong track record of discovering and commissioning emerging creative talent.
• Ability to inspire creativity, collaboration, and excellence across teams.
• Skilled in balancing multiple projects simultaneously and thriving under tight deadlines.
• Instinct for classic taste and the ability to innovate from project to project.

What We Offer

• This is a permanent, full-time position.
• This job is benefits-eligible.
• Comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life.
• Commitment to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves.
• Opportunity to work with a leading modern media company.