The Atlantic

Digital Media · Publishing
19Open roles4 posted in 30 days+1 this week
$105kMedian advertised pay$77k – $120k+6% vs market
40 daysTime to fillmedian of 15 closed rolesmarket: 31 days
Lately:+1 roles posted this weekFollow changes →

Facts

as of Nov 15, 2026

The Atlantic is an influential American magazine and digital publication based in Washington, D.C., renowned for its in-depth commentary, long-form journalism, and cultural analysis. Founded in 1857 in Boston by leading literary figures including Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Russell Lowell, it has a rich history of covering critical social issues, political ideas, and foreign affairs. Today, as part of Emerson Collective, it serves as a premier platform for intellectual debate, featuring prominent writers and thinkers across politics, science, technology, and the arts.

It is hiring: 19 open roles, 4 of them posted in the last 30 days.

Open roles
19 in 2 citiesAlion job postings
Official records
Wikidata Q1542536
Website
theatlantic.com

As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 19 open roles at The Atlantic. The median pay stated in its open roles is $105k, across 19 postings that state pay.

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Trust

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What the registers and the postings say about this employer.

Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
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Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices

Hiring

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Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.

Communications is the largest family, 55 of open roles.

4Posted in 30 days21% of open roles are fresh
21%Remote roles4 of 19
2Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
30 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States30On site
Remote, from elsewhere4Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 4.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
The Atlantic40 days
Market, same roles31 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand28
Pay25
Your chance36
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+800%
Aug 10This week
Open roles a week: 2 then, 18 now
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Communications55▲
Industrial Engineering14▼
Marketing10▼
Design7▲
Sales7▼
Administrative3▼
Newest roles
Executive Director, Product Design
$175k per year · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · New York
Designer, Consumer Strategy & Growth
$77k per year · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · New York
Senior Engineer
$115k per year · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Washington
Senior Engineer
$125k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Washington
Experience asked: 5.8 years on average, in 10 postings.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Continuous learning211%
Contract type
Full-Time 19
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
View 19 jobsRoles matching my profile
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

Pay

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What its postings pay, by level.

$105kMedianmarket estimate $99k
$77k – $120kTypical rangeUSD a year
$200kHighest paying roleCreative Director, Editorial
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $99k
Junior3$77k$69k – $77k
Senior5$105k$105k – $115k
Staff+4$120k
Head+3$180k$175k – $180k
$0$50k$100k$150k$200k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year

Footprint

Hiring in 2 cities in 1 country.

2Cities
1Countries
WashingtonBusiest site
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SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
Washington United StatesSales office13Communications, Industrial Engineering, Administrative0%
New York United StatesSales office8Communications, Design, Marketing0%
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Peers

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Ranked #7 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.

#CompanyHQOpen rolesSize
1HearstNew York, United States1895000+
2The New York Times CompanyNew York, United States1601001-5000
3Condé NastNew York, United States1261001-5000
4The EconomistNew York, United States38501-1000
5Washington PostWashington, United States381001-5000
6People Inc.New York, United States271001-5000
7The AtlanticWashington, United States19
8VoxmediaWashington, United States19201-500
The Atlantic competitors and alternatives
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)

Tech stack

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Technologies named in job postings at The Atlantic over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

30Technologies in use
13Postings analysed
87/100Stack modernityAI adopter
LanguagesJavaScript 15%Python 8%TypeScript 8%Kotlin 8%
Frameworks & librariesReact.js 15%Cypress 8%Playwright 8%React Native 8%
Cloud & platformsFigma 31%AWS 15%GCP 15%Looker 15%
AI & MLClaude 15%LLM 15%
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Full The Atlantic tech stack30 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site

Milestones

Mar 24, 2025
Sep 26, 2024
Mar 2, 2023
Oct 2, 2018
On the Hacker News front page Coders Automating Their Own Job · 991 points
May 16, 2017
On the Hacker News front page My Family’s Slave · 1419 points
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press

Newsroom

top 0.01%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
19904Hacker News storiesbest: 2283 points
#1,057Web rankTranco top 1M
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once