Jobs at The Washington Post

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.

Perform general ledger accounting, month-end and year-end close, financial statement preparation, variance analysis, GAAP application, audit support, compliance documentation, and process automation. The role also involves improving accounting processes, preparing reports, supporting tax filings, collaborating with auditors and stakeholders, and contributing to special projects. Advanced Excel, data analytics, financial reporting, and accounting systems expertise are required.

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.

Build, evaluate, deploy, and monitor machine learning systems for personalization, recommendations, ranking, user modeling, content discovery, and generative AI experiences. Analyze large-scale behavioral and content data, design offline and online evaluations, conduct A/B testing and causal analysis, and collaborate with scientists, engineers, product managers, editors, and other stakeholders to deliver scalable reader-focused AI/ML solutions.

Leads applied research and development for AI/ML systems supporting generative AI, conversational search, retrieval, ranking, content understanding, and recommendations. Designs, trains, evaluates, and deploys models and scalable production systems; conducts offline and online experiments; analyzes behavioral and content data; and collaborates with engineering, product, editorial, and data teams. Provides technical leadership through roadmap development, mentoring, scientific rigor, and communication of technical and business outcomes.

Develop and enhance iOS applications with a focus on advertising technology. Own native ad formats, RTB and header-bidding integrations, ad measurement pipelines, and iOS privacy compliance. Research mobile advertising patterns, troubleshoot latency, battery, and stability issues, integrate third-party SDKs, define APIs, write tested code, participate in agile development, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Leads strategic client solutions for major programmatic advertising accounts, partnering with sales, agencies, advertisers, platforms, Product, Engineering, Ad Operations, and Revenue Operations. Advises clients on programmatic deals, diagnoses activation and delivery challenges, develops account-growth strategies, analyzes campaign performance, creates scalable operating frameworks, and influences product priorities. The role also evaluates emerging advertising technologies and AI capabilities to improve client outcomes, operational efficiency, and revenue growth.

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.

Supports the Arc XP President by coordinating business operations, leadership rhythms, cross-functional initiatives, and organizational priorities. Tracks commitments, dependencies, timelines, and risks; prepares leadership materials; improves workflows and internal communication; and recommends process enhancements, automation, and productivity tools. The role partners with Finance and other teams to strengthen planning, execution, alignment, and operational effectiveness across the SaaS business.

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.

Leads partnership strategy and analytics by building performance frameworks, evaluating commercial opportunities, analyzing market and partner data, and developing executive dashboards and recommendations. Collaborates with Partnerships, Business Development, Product, Finance, Legal, Data, and Technology teams to improve revenue, audience growth, partner value, and investment decisions. Assesses media, technology, creator, subscription, advertising, and AI ecosystems to identify strategic opportunities and strengthen commercial performance.

Leads partnership implementation operations, translating commercial strategies into scalable technical and operational plans. Establishes roadmaps, governance, playbooks, workflows, dashboards, and launch-readiness processes for platform partnerships, AI licensing, content distribution, subscriptions, and emerging revenue models. Coordinates Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Data, Advertising Operations, and other teams while managing risks, dependencies, technical integrations, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Report on the forces shaping the modern information ecosystem, including AI, misinformation, creator media, influence networks, technology, politics, and media. The reporter will break news, conduct investigations, produce explanatory and narrative journalism, follow money and power, identify emerging trends, and collaborate across the newsroom. Responsibilities also include engaging audiences through newsletters, social media, video, podcasts, live events, and other storytelling platforms.

Reports breaking news and emerging developments across business and technology, producing fast, accurate, explanatory journalism. The reporter identifies consequential trends, develops enterprise stories, collaborates with editors and visual journalists, and experiments with digital storytelling, newsletters, social media, video, and podcasts. The role requires strong news judgment, interviewing, source development, clear writing, rapid learning, accuracy, and effective cross-team collaboration.

Leads The Washington Post’s corporate development function, including investment thesis development, acquisition and partnership sourcing, valuation, financial modeling, due diligence, transaction structuring, negotiation, and integration planning. Advises senior executives on strategic growth opportunities and coordinates cross-functional stakeholders across Finance, Legal, Strategy, Product, Technology, and operations.

Design print pages, story packages, themed sections, and special editions for daily and weekly newspaper products. Adapt text, photography, and graphics using content management and design tools; collaborate with editors and production teams; maintain accuracy, visual hierarchy, tone, and brand consistency; and meet tight deadlines while contributing workflow and presentation improvements.

Administer and engineer identity, access, endpoint, collaboration, and core IT platforms. Build automated provisioning and deprovisioning workflows; integrate Workday, Okta, Active Directory, Google Workspace, and ITSM systems; troubleshoot complex incidents; implement security and compliance controls; support legal holds and e-discovery; document systems; and provide technical guidance and mentoring.

Leads public and corporate affairs agency development for The Washington Post’s Global Advertising team. Builds senior client and agency relationships, grows revenue and account spend, develops integrated advertising campaigns, represents the organization at industry events, advises clients on market trends, and manages sales performance, forecasting, pipeline health, and team execution.

Leads strategic sourcing, category management, vendor negotiations, and contract lifecycle activities across major spend categories. Evaluates suppliers, pricing, risk, service levels, and total cost of ownership; develops evidence-based recommendations; partners with Finance, Legal, IT, and business stakeholders; and improves procurement processes, tools, governance, and data visibility. The role also supports ERP and procurement capability transformation while managing renewals, sourcing events, supplier performance, and commercial risk.