Senior Editor, Data and Graphics, NBC News Digital

Senior Editor, Data and Graphics, NBC News Digital

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NBC News Digital is hiring a Senior Editor to oversee its data and visual journalism. This person will direct our data-forward journalism and how it is creatively represented on the site, app and other owned platforms. This includes data collection, refinement and analysis. The Senior Editor will collaborate with key stakeholders in the digital team, including editorial leaders, and around NBC News, including the Director of Data and Election Experiences, the Senior Director of AI and Emerging Technologies, the Director, Art & Photography, product leads and engineering leads and forensic producers and journalists.

This role reports to the Senior Executive Editor of NBC News Digital.

The Senior Editor will focus on three main areas:

• Delivering on editorial goals, described below.
• Managing the journalists on the Data Graphics team and their career development. Ensure you are staying up to date on the latest journalism tools and how they might be deployed in the digital newsroom.
• Developing and deepening partnerships with key stakeholders around NBC News to execute on editorial goals, especially marquee projects. These teams include the NBC News Decision Desk, product and engineering teams, the Art & Photo desk, the network-wide AI team and more.

This team will focus on three main areas:

• Quick turn, daily work on the biggest news of the moment. This includes working with other teams to create products like storm cone and river flooding trackers during a hurricane, charts that illustrate major media mergers off the Netflix-Warner Bros. mergers, before-and-after photo sliders, locator maps and charts that show where outstanding ballots are on election night. These can appear on the site, app, newsletters, social and beyond.
  
  This is about 40% of the team’s work.
• Big and creative projects that are distinct and/or engender audience loyalty. These can be deep investigations or data analyses, like a deep dive into backsliding immunizations around the country with data we obtain and crunch; developing a proprietary, county-by-county index of how difficult it is to buy a home, presidential debate topic trackers, a state-by-state voting guide and feature presentations. This is about 50% of the team’s work.
• Developing new and useful presentations for the NBC News digital platform, such as tap stories, grocery price trackers, and quizzes. This is about 10% of the team’s work.

• Direct a team to gather and crunch newsworthy data.
• Present that data effectively in engaging charts, maps, graphics and beyond.
• Experience with data analysis tools (Python, Pandas, R).
• Experience with RAG pipelines or LLM-based agents and workflows.
• Experience with data visualization tools (Data wrapper, D3).
• Experience packing tools for non-technical users.
• A strong bonus:
  Experience with Geospatial analysis and visualization (GeoJSON, Mapbox, QGIS).
• Use experience and news judgment to prioritize which work the team takes on.
• Be a driver of curiosity and innovation in the newsroom.

• 10 or more years of experience in data journalism.
• Experience working with AI in journalism.
• Ability to manage staff effectively and focus on staff career development.
• Collaborative nature and ability to align on priorities with outside stakeholders.
• A clear and effective communicator.

• Knowledge of how to utilize AI in editorial work, and how to use the technology to be efficient and keep the team competitively advantaged.
• Editorially rigorous, upholding the highest journalistic standards. Curious, innovative and willing to experiment with new technologies.
• Proficient in data analysis and data visualization. Strong understanding of modern LLMs, experience evaluating model output and building or deploying RAG systems.

Hybrid:
This position has been designated as hybrid, which currently requires contributing from the office a…