Senior Project Manager, Brand Identity

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

Job Description

The New York Time seeks a Senior Project Manager for the Brand Identity & Standards team. This is a temporary role to cover for parental leave. You will be part of—and responsible for managing—a cross-functional design group dedicated to creating and supporting the essence of The New York Times brand. The team’s projects focus on the creation of original identities and guidelines to help clarify and visually connect our products and experiences across platforms and mediums. The team liaises with the marketing, product, newsroom, standards, legal and communications teams.

As a member of the team, you’ll shepherd projects from brainstorming through completion, partnering with designers and leadership throughout the company to ensure goals are met. You will report to the Head of Brand Identity and Standards.

Responsibilities:

• Manage complex visual and verbal identity projects to ensure brand consistency and messaging across companywide products, goals and initiatives—from strategy/brainstorming through delivery, serving as the primary contact for our teams to ensure all deliverables and components are on track and within scope.

• Monitor projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating and reporting progress and quality of work, managing issue resolution, taking corrective action and escalating to senior management.

• Author and owner of project timelines, workplans, creative briefs.

• Ensure open dialogue throughout project life cycle through use of email/Slack status updates, document sharing and meeting recaps.

• Lead team management routines, e.g., project kickoffs, creative reviews, work sessions, stand-ups, status check-ins, design team meetings, retrospectives and any other important project-related recurring meetings. 

• Partner with and support the team’s designers while fielding and assigning projects, needs and workflows.

• Partner with the Design Council, a group of senior design executives across the company, to bring more structure and momentum to the way design leadership works as a team.

• Work with design leadership, legal and other departments to develop governance guidelines on the use of brand assets to maintain clarity around sponsorships and partnerships on and off our platform.

• Together with the Head of Brand Identity, ensure the team is thriving, meeting team goals and is focused on the needs of the organization.

• You will facilitate design council meetings and to support them with program development and deliverables.

• Be first contact on requests around usage of our proprietary brand assets, such as logos and typography.

• Mentor junior project managers and coordinators in best practices in project workflows, communication, documentation and team structures. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, journalism or a related field.

• 8+ years of project management experience, managing brand design and visual identity projects. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• A grasp of the design process, tools and workflows.

• Experience optimizing the design process to ease collaboration, increase quality, and achieve greater impact.

• Experienced working collaboratively, and the ability to diplomatically navigate a complex organization with multiple partners and dependencies.

• Experienced advocating for adherence to process and structure, but are also able to operate — and manage a team — in states of uncertainty.

• An understanding of the capabilities and production needs for print, digital, email, social media and video.

• A true affinity for organization and efficiency.

• Insights on shifting project needs or issues and identify workflow gaps with a solution-oriented mindset.

The annual base pay salary for this role is between $110,000.00 and $125,000.00.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

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The Company will further consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws.

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