Chief Visual Storyteller: Newsroom Leadership

The Banner; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

401K with company match

Health benefits

Job summary

The Banner seeks a visionary Visuals Director to lead our newsroom's visual storytelling across photography, illustration, design, multimedia, and digital presentation across the state.

Based in Baltimore, you will manage staff photographers, designers, illustrators, and freelance talent; collaborate with editors, reporters, and product teams to ensure journalism is visually compelling, accurate, accessible, and ethical.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in visual journalism, photography, or related field.
• Experience managing people, freelancers, and projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day visual journalism workflow across photography, illustration, design, multimedia, and freelance work.
• Manage staff photographers, designers, illustrators, and other contributors.
• Oversee visual assignments for daily, breaking, enterprise, investigations, features, and audience-facing platforms.
• Art direct ambitious editorial projects and visual explainers.
• Collaborate early in story planning to identify visual approaches.

Skills

visual storytelling

team leadership

creative direction

digital presentation

collaboration

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Photoshop

Lightroom

Illustrator

Figma/Sketch

Job description

The Banner seeks a visionary Visuals Director to lead our newsroom's visual storytelling across photography, illustration, design, multimedia, and digital presentation across the state.

Based in Baltimore, you will manage staff photographers, designers, illustrators, and freelance talent; collaborate with editors, reporters, and product teams to ensure journalism is visually compelling, accurate, accessible, and ethical.