New York Post is hiring : Lead Photo Editor / Photo Director (News), The California

Overview

As part of its bold expansion into Los Angeles, the California Post is seeking a Photo Director to oversee all visual storytelling across print and digital platforms. Reporting directly to the Editor-in-Chief, the Photo Director will lead a California team responsible for delivering bold, innovative visuals across both print and digital platforms. The ideal candidate will bring a strong newsroom background, sharp creative instincts, and proven leadership skills to ensure our visual storytelling consistently engages and resonates with audiences.

This is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity : The California Post will bring The New York Post’s DNA of powerful, agenda-setting journalism to the West Coast and be a fresh and fearless voice for common sense. Our focus will go beyond hard-hitting news and iconoclastic opinion, with Page Six delivering a strong entertainment component, a Sports department covering teams from the locker room to the front office, and a Tech team featuring the latest innovations that shape the nation’s future.

Los Angeles is one of the great cities of the world, and it’s time L.A. – and California at large – had a bold, new voice. The California Post will be that voice.

As part of its bold expansion into Los Angeles, the California Post is seeking a Photo Director to oversee all visual storytelling across print and digital platforms.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the Photo department, overseeing photo coverage across both print and digital platforms.
• Lead, manage, and mentor the photo team, setting and upholding the highest standards of visual journalism.
• Oversee photo coverage across breaking news, features, investigations, and enterprise projects, assigning photographers and providing clear editorial and creative direction to ensure visuals align with priorities.
• Collaborate closely with editors, reporters, and senior leadership to ensure photography enhances and elevates storytelling.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with photo agencies and freelance photographers, negotiating rates and securing access to top-quality visuals.
• Drive innovation in photojournalism, exploring new approaches to visual storytelling across digital and print.
• Oversee photo selection, editing, and production to ensure accuracy, speed, and editorial integrity.
• Prioritize and manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high editorial standards.

Requirements

Note : This role will be based in our central Los Angeles office and requires regular onsite presence.

Pay Range : $125,000 - $150,000

At The New York Post we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, our ranges reflect our good faith estimate to pay fairly as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

In addition to compensation, the company provides eligible employees a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including “elective” benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

As an equal opportunity employer, the New York Post does not discriminate in hiring or the terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The New York Post will consider the provision of reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental disabilities of otherwise qualified applicants to enable them to participate in our application process and to effectively perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would impose an undue financial or operational hardship.

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