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KC Business Journal seeks lead designer

The lead designer ensures the highest possible design and story-telling standards are met by Kansas City Business Journal on all platforms – day in and day out online, and week in and week out in print.

The ideal candidate should be well-versed in visual storytelling, with a solid background in publication design and photography. This position is responsible for driving new and creative forms of storytelling and is expected to contribute to, and edify, planning discussions at all levels across all departments. This is an exciting time at KCBJ as we have been working with renowned design consultant Mario Garcia and our parent company, American City Business Journals, on a content reinvention. We launched our redesign last year.

DUTIES
– Execute companywide design format, standards and style guide for printed Weekly Edition
– Work with editorial news team to creatively present stories and data
– Generate graphics, images and layout to drive reader engagement
– Design special sections and reports
– Oversee marketing and advertising campaigns, including print ads, digital ads, PowerPoint presentations, flyers, email newsletters and other collateral materials

– Oversee creation of print and digital house ads following the KCBJ’s standards

SKILLS
– Must be proficient in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop; HTML/CSS also preferred
– Strong visual storyteller who can drive non-narrative story forms
– Has experience editing photos and brainstorming ideas with photographers
– Strong communicator, able to articulate the design vision to editorial and business staffers alike
– Works cooperatively and collaboratively with all colleagues and professionally with sources and vendors

TO APPLY
Email resume, cover letter with salary requirements and a link to design samples to Creative Director Jon Wile at jwile@bizjournals.com. Only applications with design samples will be considered (please do not send work samples as PDFs or attachments). No phone calls please. No relocation available.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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