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Since 1973, Texas Monthly has chronicled life in contemporary Texas, reporting on vital issues such as politics, criminal justice, the environment, industry, and education. Often referred to as “the National Magazine of Texas,” Texas Monthly is known for smart, literary journalism and in-depth investigative reporting that illuminates issues of public policy and drives the discussion of what’s important in the Lone Star State. Additionally, Texas Monthly continues to be the indispensable authority on the Texas scene, covering music, the arts, travel, restaurants, museums, and cultural events with its insightful recommendations.

NO PHONE CALLS OR WALK-INS ACCEPTED. TEXAS MONTHLY IS AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. 

Current Opening:

• Senior Designer, Texas Monthly Studio
• Deputy Editor
• Staff Writer
• Journalism Internships

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Senior Designer, Texas Monthly Studio

Texas Monthly Studio is seeking an enthusiastic and highly-motivated Senior Designer, based in Austin, to join our creative services team. Reporting to our Director of Operations, you will be part of the Studio, working alongside our team of creatives, project managers, developers, and marketing managers. In this role, you will lead the visual ideas, design execution and delivery of innovative multi-platform experiences that help brands engage and inform audiences across Texas Monthly. You will be responsible for leading the day-to-day visual development and delivery of advertising campaigns, ensuring work is designed at high standards across digital, video, audio, social, print, and events.

Responsibilities:

• Take full ownership of design and art direction concepts and execution of 360 campaigns, ensuring high-quality visual storytelling across digital, social, video, print, and events.
• Design and adapt campaign creative across paid, owned and earned channels, including digital, social, and email, in line with Texas Monthly brand standards.
• Confidently present and communicate design ideas to clients and internal stakeholders, translating client KPIs into elegant and high-end visual storytelling solutions.
• Collaborate closely with the Studio team to help translate their ideas into engaging visual storytelling.
• Collaborate with, and solicit feedback from, internal team members to ensure design work exceeds expectations and is created in a timely and collaborative manner.
• Work closely with our Product team to ensure accurate and efficient build of digital designs across platforms. Also, lead and execute page builds for client projects using Webflow.
• Identify and manage project deliverables from external talent including illustrators, photographers and motion designers.
• Proactively identify and implement solutions to improve our design processes and workflows.
• Develop and employ a deep understanding of Texas Monthly Advertising products and Texas Monthly Studio.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of graphic design and/or art direction experience at an advertising agency, digital agency, studio or in-house team, with a focus on marketing or advertising creative.
• A., B.F.A. or M.F.A. in graphic design, visual communication or another related design discipline — or equivalent professional experience and portfolio that demonstrates comparable design training and craft.
• A strong portfolio of brand work that demonstrates high-quality design and attention to detail, a refined sense of craft, typography, pacing and visual hierarchy.
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and Webflow or comparable development platform.
• Experience leading design projects end-to-end that incorporate photography, illustrations, text, audio, and video while collaborating with editorial, strategy and/or production teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Editorial and visual storytelling experience, with the ability to translate complex narratives into simpler, compelling visual experiences.
• Experience in brand storytelling, digital marketing, content strategy, or copywriting.
• Enthusiasm for designing and making great branded experiences for Texas Monthly Events.
• A belief in the value of journalism, and genuine curiosity about Texas, our work and company. Ideally, you enjoy reading, watching, and listening to Texas Monthly journalism and products.

In-Office and Travel Policy:

• This onsite position offers the opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic team in a vibrant work environment. One remote workday per week is permitted, excluding Mondays.
• Little travel required. Examples include participation required for in-person Texas Monthly events such as BBQ Fest, TCR Fest, and Taco Fest.

Application Process:

If you are a qualified candidate and interested in this position, we encourage you to apply. Please email a cover letter, resume, and link to portfolio to resumes@texasmonthly.com with the job title in the subject line.

Final candidates will be asked to perform an authentic task designated by the hiring manager.

To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, all candidates are expected to submit their own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

Texas Monthly is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.

NO PHONE CALLS OR WALK-INS ACCEPTED.

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Deputy Editor

Texas Monthly is looking for a deputy editor, who will report to the editor in chief and work closely with that position to execute their vision for the magazine across all its journalism platforms. The deputy editor will be a vital partner to the editor in chief and the director of operations in shaping the future of Texas Monthly and ensuring that the magazine consistently produces some of the highest-quality storytelling in the nation. The deputy editor will directly supervise multiple editors, who in turn oversee all the magazine’s writers and editors. This editor should be enthusiastic about coaching and providing feedback to editors at various levels of experience, including on assignment strategy, story structure, line editing, and leadership/management skills, to elevate Texas Monthly’s journalism and aim to grow its audience.

This full-time staff position is based in Austin, Texas, and requires working regularly out of our downtown office. It offers stability and the opportunity to significantly shape a nationally renowned media company that received a National Magazine Award for general excellence in 2026 and whose culture is defined by collegiality, curiosity, ambition, experimentation, the highest journalistic standards, and an abiding sense of service to our millions of readers both in and outside of Texas. This position offers generous benefits, including a comprehensive health-insurance plan, 401(k) matching, profit sharing, and eligibility for performance-based bonuses.

The deputy editor will:

• Supervise the story director and multiple executive editors, who in turn oversee all the magazine’s writers and editors
• Work with editors, the editor in chief, and the print managing editor to curate a variety of timely and engaging stories within each print issue, and to ensure a compelling and varied lineup of cover stories
• Work with editors and the digital managing editor to refine and enforce an editorial vision and publishing cadence for texasmonthly.com
• Provide editing and assigning feedback to editors, including through top edits of stories
• Occasionally assign and edit stories, including approximately six longform feature stories a year
• Provide editorial feedback on other publishing platforms, such as video and podcasts, as delegated by the editor in chief
• Collaborate closely with the editor in chief and director of editorial operations on strategy, including deciding whether and when to launch new editorial products and how to best deploy the department’s sixty-plus staffers across its many initiatives
• Help guide conversations across the editorial staff about the types of stories Texas Monthly wants to tell and how it wants to tell them

Successful candidates will possess the following: 

• Experience in, and enthusiasm for, managing other editors and coaching them on how to effectively supervise and edit writers
• Exceptional editing abilities, from the structural level to the line level, including on longform features
• A talent for writing clear and compelling display type, including cover lines
• A friendly, collaborative, and communicative work style

Previous experience/education:

• Bachelor’s degree
• At least ten years of editing experience at a magazine or similar publication that publishes longform journalism
• At least five years of experience leading and supervising teams of journalists

If you are interested in this position, please fill out this application form. Applications will be considered only if they are submitted through that form and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Promising applicants will be selected for an initial screening interview. Candidates who move forward in the hiring process will be asked to complete an editing test and memo. Finalists will then interview with the editor in chief and other major stakeholders. Potential candidates who are interested in learning more about the position before applying can book an informational phone call with the director of editorial operations at this link.

Texas Monthly is committed to diversity and cultivating an inclusive environment. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.

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Staff Writer

Texas Monthly has a rare opportunity for a full-time writer to join the magazine’s staff. This staff writer will report on Texan identity explored primarily through culture, defined in the broadest sense: Texas Monthly culture stories—which include coverage of history, sports, books, style, architecture and design, film and TV, iconic Texan celebrities, the arts, and subcultures—are a lens through which the reader can deepen their relationship to or understanding of Texas. This writer should have their finger on the pulse of, and a keen instinct for, the daily conversation in Texas. They will ideate, report, and write timely stories that create or join existing conversations, bringing both a quick digital metabolism and a strong writerly voice to their work. They should have curiosity and enthusiasm about a wide range of topics and be comfortable reporting and writing at a cadence that helps establish texasmonthly.com as a habitual destination for readers who want to better understand, or feel more connected to, Texas culture.

This full-time staff position is based in Austin, Texas, and requires working regularly out of our downtown office. It offers stability at a nationally renowned media company that received a National Magazine Award for general excellence in 2026 and whose culture is defined by collegiality, curiosity, ambition, experimentation, the highest journalistic standards, and an abiding sense of service to our millions of readers both in and outside of Texas. This position offers generous benefits, including a comprehensive health-insurance plan, 401(k) matching, profit sharing, and eligibility for performance-based bonuses.

Job responsibilities include, but may not be limited to:

• Reporting and writing 8 stories per month, mostly quick-turn digital stories between 800 and 1,500 words but also some occasional longer-term stories
• Paying close attention to trends and news across the state to pitch and quickly deliver on stories that help readers understand the current landscape of culture and deepen their understanding of, and relationship to, Texas
• Developing sources in agreed-upon coverage areas to deliver regular pitches for both short- and long-term reporting
• Writing on occasion for the Texas Daily and other newsletters

Successful candidates will possess the following:

• At least 5 years of journalism experience, including previous experience writing at the caliber of Texas Monthly
• The ability to identify compelling, unique angles into ongoing events and quickly pitch, report, and write stories that fit those angles
• The ability to write compelling and stylish narrative- and character-focused stories
• The ability to balance quicker-turn writing assignments with long-term reporting projects and ongoing source development
• The ability to balance sharp analysis with precision and fairness
• A proven track record for cultivating sources and pitching viable story ideas regularly and enthusiastically
• A willingness to appear in videos is a strong plus

Interested candidates should fill out this form. Applications for this position should be submitted by September 8. Only applications submitted through that form will be considered. Promising applicants will be selected for an initial screening interview; from there, some candidates may be asked to complete a skills test. Finalists will then have an interview with the editor-in-chief and other major stakeholders.

Texas Monthly is committed to diversity and cultivating an inclusive environment. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.