# Creative Director, Editorial

The Atlantic is seeking a Creative Director to oversee visual direction and brand expression across all editorial platforms-including the print magazine, website and app, podcasts, video, and live events. The Creative Director will manage The Atlantic’s art department, and lead the team’s work on design, illustration, and photography across The Atlantic’s journalism. The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative, an ambitious design mind, and able to think big while maintaining attention to detail. Their work should elevate The Atlantic’s visual identity while maintaining its core sensibility and spirit. Qualifications of the ideal candidate: Demonstrated talent for leadership, including creative vision, people-management experience, and the ability to both identify and execute against goals Astute design and journalistic sense, and facility with both conceptual and reportorial work Strong organizational skills, including the ability to work effectively under deadlines and to manage concurrent projects Established relationships with photographers, illustrators, and other artists, and a keen eye for emerging talent Adaptability to change and grace under pressure Clear commu

- **Id**: 326462
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/the-atlantic-creative-director-editorial>
- **Role**: Marketing
- **Role family**: Marketing
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States, Washington, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-31
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T04:27:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 76
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3146
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Publishing, Media & Entertainment, Digital Media

## Company

- **Id**: 11432
- **Name**: The Atlantic
- **Domain**: theatlantic.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/the-atlantic>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **Adobe Photoshop** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 76

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T16:57:22Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.673
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 76
- **Expected fill days**: 40
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: no

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