Digital Producer- Consumer Advice

Job Description

Job Description

U.S. News & World Report is a multifaceted digital media company dedicated to helping citizens, consumers, business leaders and policy officials make important decisions in their lives. We publish independent reporting, rankings, data journalism and advice that has earned the trust of our readers and users for 90 years. Our platforms on usnews.com include Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, News, Real Estate, Careers  and Insurance. 

We reach millions of people monthly during moments when they are most in need of expert advice and motivated to act on that advice directly on our platforms. Our signature franchises include our “Best” series of consumer guides on colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, diets, cars, financial services and more. These guides provide an easy-to-digest list for consumers to better understand and compare when making their decisions. We continue to publish annual guides of the authoritative Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings on our website and in print. And our U.S. News Live flagship conferences highlight important national conversations such as Healthcare of Tomorrow .

We believe in having a broad range of talent and backgrounds at U.S. News. We strive to maintain a welcoming and inclusive workplace where everyone is given an opportunity to succeed and contribute to their fullest.

Your role in helping us shape the future:

U.S. News empowers everyone to thrive. In this position you will have the opportunity to leverage your web production and journalistic skills to create content for the U.S. News website. You will join an expansion team, collaborating with product managers, product analysts, editors and web developers to launch new products and optimize existing ones.

As a Digital Producer, you will become the subject matter expert in our content management system, recommending feature and sitewide improvements and sharing your knowledge with other members of the team.

Are you up to the challenge?

• Coordinate with product managers to ship new features and run user tests that require production work
• Recommend and test features, and suggest improvements
• Upload editorial content, data, tables, charts, graphics and photos to the CMS
• Source graphics and photos with appropriate licenses
• Basic knowledge of editing and altering images
• Build charts, graphics and maps
• Basic video editing
• QA and publish new or updated webpages
• Document production processes on Confluence and host CMS training sessions