The Marshall Project – Job listing
Director of Technology
Job title: Director of Technology
Location: New York, NY
Reporting to: Managing Editor, Digital
Responsibilites:
• Responsible for developing a cutting-edge interactive news site leveraging the best technologies and practices.
• Choose the technologies used and implement them to create a dynamic and robust news site.
• Collaborate with the newsroom to brainstorm coverage and creative and innovative approaches to news.
• Develop, implement and support top-quality applications and interactives that break new ground in journalism.
Experience and skills:
• Experience working in journalism
• Expertise across the software stack, and a intimate familiarity with deploying applications online.
• The candidate should have a deep understanding of the web and experience working within MVC framework. Candidates should be comfortable with web APIs and be able to integrate data, audio, and video into interactive experiences.
The Marshall Project is a not-for-profit, non-partisan news organization dedicated to covering America’s criminal justice system. The Marshall Project will combine the best of the old and the new in journalism. We will achieve our goals through the use of conventional investigative reporting and opinion writing, and embrace new technologies currently transforming the media, including interactive graphics, immersive digital stories, short video documentaries and content generated by our readers. We will curate the daily torrent of criminal justice news from publications around the country, highlight the work of advocacy groups on both the right and left, host debates, and drive a lively discussion on social media.
To Apply: Email Us
(marshallprojectinfo+techdirector@gmail.com)