Jobs at The Washington Post

Leads treasury operations, including team management, service delivery, KPI reporting, cash collections, payment operations, reconciliations, controls, and 13-week cash forecasting. Partners with Finance and Technology teams on NetSuite implementation, process design, testing, data validation, cutover, training, and workflow improvements. Analyzes forecast variances, manages liquidity risks, and drives operational performance and cross-functional improvements.

Leads and develops the iOS engineering team for The Washington Post’s flagship mobile app. Responsibilities include people management, delivery planning, risk management, cross-team coordination, iOS architecture, hands-on coding, code reviews, testing, performance, reliability, release practices, engineering metrics, process improvement, and building AI agents and automation for mobile engineering workflows.

Leads The Washington Post’s social video editors and off-platform news video strategy. Oversees programming, staffing, production, YouTube growth, original journalism, platform distribution, audience analytics, live workflows, licensing, and vendor relationships. Coaches video journalists, develops platform-native formats, manages breaking and long-form coverage, and collaborates with newsroom, Product, and Design teams to expand audience reach while maintaining editorial standards.

Leads the visual and interaction design direction for The Washington Post’s digital products across web, mobile, and emerging platforms. Owns the UI design language, design-system governance, reusable components, interaction patterns, and interface quality standards. Partners with Product, Engineering, Content Design, and newsroom teams to deliver accessible, scalable experiences. Provides design critique, mentors designers, improves cross-product consistency, and evaluates emerging design and AI-enabled workflows.

Lead end-to-end execution of custom advertising, branded content, sponsorship, and event programs across digital, live, virtual, and experiential platforms. Manage timelines, production, sponsor fulfillment, client communications, vendors, cross-functional stakeholders, risks, launches, and post-campaign analysis. Drive operational improvements and use automation and AI-enabled tools to improve workflows, reporting, quality assurance, and execution.

Reports on the U.S. Senate, breaking news, cultivating sources, explaining complex legislation and procedure, and pursuing enterprise and accountability stories. Collaborates across the newsroom to produce authoritative, accessible journalism in multiple formats while maintaining rigorous standards of accuracy and fairness. This is a full-time, approximately five-month contract based in Washington, D.C.

Provides high-level administrative and operational support to the CFO, including calendar and meeting management, communications, cross-functional coordination, event support, reporting, action-item tracking, budgeting, invoice review, and contract management. The role requires confidentiality, sound judgment, strong organization, project management skills, and proficiency with productivity tools, automation, and AI-enabled solutions.

Develop and execute creator-led branded content programs, sourcing and evaluating talent, negotiating fees, managing budgets, and guiding creators through briefing, scripting, revisions, approval, and distribution. Partner with creative, production, program management, business affairs, and clients to align campaigns with objectives, audiences, platforms, and KPIs. Create pitches, sales materials, and case studies while using audience insights, creator discovery tools, and social trends to inform strategy.

The Financial Controller leads global accounting operations, financial close, consolidation, statutory reporting, controls, governance, audit coordination, and ERP transformation. This role redesigns the controllership function, modernizes accounting systems and processes, oversees reporting accuracy, partners with FP&A and stakeholders, and builds a high-performing global accounting team. The position requires strategic leadership alongside hands-on execution in a complex, privately held media organization.

Create, shoot, and edit high-impact vertical videos for The Washington Post’s social platforms. Collaborate with journalists, editors, producers, and designers to produce accurate, engaging, social-first news content. Write scripts, headlines, captions, and metadata; coach journalists on video best practices; monitor engagement metrics; and refine production strategies to grow audience reach and interaction. The role requires newsroom experience, strong Adobe Premiere skills, field production capabilities, social publishing expertise, and excellent news judgment.

Leads budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, revenue modeling, variance analysis, scenario planning, and strategic financial analysis for subscription, B2B, and growth businesses. Partners with cross-functional leaders on investments, pricing, products, partnerships, and resource allocation. Improves reporting, planning processes, data quality, automation, and financial tools while managing and developing financial analysts.

Build and operate customer-facing subscription applications with a frontend focus using React, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Contribute to Java and Node.js backend services, AWS infrastructure, APIs, CI/CD, observability, and production operations. Own technical solutions from architecture through deployment, support subscription experiences such as checkout and paywalls, improve performance and accessibility, participate in on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and use AI-assisted tools across development and operations.

Manage 5–10 corporate recruiting requisitions, owning full-cycle hiring from intake and sourcing through interviews, offers, and closing. Partner with hiring managers on recruiting strategy, assess candidates, coordinate complex interviews, maintain timely candidate communication, and develop equitable offers with Compensation. The role supports technology, finance, marketing, sales, and operations hiring while covering an employee leave through March 2027.

Lead Style coverage at the intersection of politics and culture, managing and developing reporters while shaping quick-turn profiles, features, columns, newsletters, and enterprise journalism. Set editorial priorities, edit stories across formats, collaborate with visual and audience teams, use performance data to inform strategy, and foster a creative newsroom culture. The role is based onsite in Washington, D.C.

Researches and fact-checks opinion articles, verifying names, dates, figures, and other factual material through trusted sources. Copy-edits stories for style, clarity, consistency, and accuracy; collaborates with editors and opinion leaders to strengthen arguments and improve editorial workflows, training, and resources. The role requires deadline-driven multitasking, strong communication, meticulous attention to detail, and flexibility for occasional evening or weekend work.

Leads photographic coverage for breaking news, features, investigations, and visual enterprise projects. Assigns and directs photographers, develops visual story ideas, edits and presents images across digital platforms, sources and licenses photography, collaborates across newsroom teams, and mentors photo editors and photographers. Requires strong visual and editorial judgment, newsroom experience, knowledge of photographic ethics and copyright, digital storytelling expertise, and proficiency with Photoshop and Photo Mechanic.

Design digital editorial experiences, visual packages, illustrations, and interactive storytelling for The Washington Post. Collaborate with reporters, editors, developers, photographers, and other visual journalists from concept through publication. Create reader-centered designs across desktop, mobile, newsletters, and social platforms; support breaking news under tight deadlines; and apply typography, composition, color, animation, art direction, accessibility, and visual consistency to strengthen journalism.

The Senior HR Business Partner advises Newsroom leaders on workforce strategy, organizational design, employee relations, performance, talent development, succession planning, change management, and union-related policies. The role interprets workforce data, coaches managers, resolves sensitive employee matters, and coordinates with HR specialists, Legal, and Employee Relations to improve retention, organizational health, and employee experience.

Leads The Washington Post’s enterprise AI strategy, roadmap, governance, and transformation initiatives. Identifies high-value AI opportunities, develops investment cases, evaluates build-versus-buy decisions, establishes responsible AI and quality frameworks, and coordinates cross-functional adoption across editorial, product, technology, commercial, and corporate functions. The role also builds organizational AI capability, advises executives and the Board, measures business impact, and guides scalable, secure, ethical AI implementation.

Reports on American companies, industries, executives, markets, and the intersection of business and government. Breaks news, produces enterprise reporting, profiles, analysis, and narrative features, using financial data, corporate filings, and public records. The reporter explains complex business developments for broad audiences and collaborates across the newsroom on newsletters, social media, video, podcasts, and live events.