Senior Visuals Developer, CNN

About this role

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Your New Role …  

CNN’s global Visuals team is seeking a senior developer to create ambitious,   innovative   and accessible digital journalism. This role is for visual   thinker   who can turn complex ideas into intuitive, high-impact experiences across breaking news, enterprise   reporting   and major planned coverage.  

As a senior member of the Visuals team, you will collaborate with editors, reporters, designers, data   journalists   and other developers to build interactive stories, reusable tools and visual formats that deepen CNN’s journalism. You will work across a range of storytelling approaches, from fast-turn   project s and live experiences to immersive, highly produced   storie s.  

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience   working with 3D to   create   spatial storytelling experiences. That could include work with   photogrammetry,   WebGL, 3D mapping, 3D modeling,   animation   or other emerging formats. You should be excited about applying those skills thoughtfully: not as a technical exercise, but when they offer the clearest and most compelling way to help audiences understand a story.  

Your Role Accountabilities …  

• Develop interactive graphics, visual stories and digital experiences for breaking news, enterprise   journalism   and major planned events.  

• Partner with editors,   reporters   and designers early in the reporting process to   identify   the strongest storytelling approaches and   determine   where custom development can add value.  

• Create engaging storytelling experiences   using 3D models and photogrammetry , including interactive maps, explanatory models,   a nimations   and immersive formats.  

• Build responsive,   accessible   and performant experiences that work effectively across devices and platforms.  

• Develop reusable components, templates and tools that help CNN’s Visuals team move more quickly and consistently across the news cycle.  

• Collaborate with data and graphics editors to integrate live data, automated   feeds   and visual analysis into interactive experiences.  

• Contribute to editorial brainstorming,   prototyping   and experimentation with emerging technologies.  

• Work closely with product,   engineering   and platform partners when projects require broader technical coordination.  

• Review code, document   workflows   and share skills with colleagues across the Visuals team.  

• Help   maintain   high standards   for accessibility, performance,   reliability   and user experience.  

Qualifications & Experience…    

• At least 7 years of experience in interactive development, creative technology, visual   journalism   or a comparable digital storytelling environment.  

• A strong portfolio of published interactive work that   demonstrates   excellent technical execution, visual   judgment   and audience-centered thinking.  

• Experience with modern front-end frameworks, component-based   development   and Git-based workflows.  

• Demonstrated experience building 3D or spatial storytelling experiences using tools such as WebGL, Three.js,   Mapbox   GL,   MapLibre , deck.gl or similar technologies. Fluency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is   required ; familiarity with Python is a plus.  

• Experience incorporating AI-assisted tools into development workflows, or an interest in thoughtfully using AI to improve coding,   prototyping   and production practices.  

• A strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility, browser   performance   and cross-platform testing.  

• Experience collaborating closely with designers, editors,   reporters   and data journalists from concept through publication.  

• Ability to work on both deadline-driven news coverage and more complex medium- and long-term projects.  

• Strong communication   skills and   an   ability to explain technical possibilities and tradeoffs clearly to non-technical partners.  

• Familiarity with data visualization libraries, automated data pipelines or newsroom publishing workflows is a plus.  

• Experience with motion design, animation, computer   graphics   or creative coding is a plus.  

• Experience building interactive election features, results displays or other data-driven news products – or an interest in applying development skills to elections coverage – is a plus.  

If you   don’t   have every one of these skills,   that’s   OK. We want to hear from candidates who are passionate about this work and eager to bring their unique perspective and experience to the role.

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