Always curious.
Hire me!

Harnessing design and technology
to empower storytellers

Hello. I’m Yuri Victor, a creative technologist in New York working on emerging platforms. Over the past two decades I’ve designed dozens of ground-breaking tools, built software used by hundreds of organizations, and led cross-functional teams at the largest media companies, including co-founding Vox.com.

I like to make great products with great people. How can I help you? Let’s connect and find out.

01Recent work

02Philosophy

Do great work with great people

Work on projects worth working on with teams worth working for. Organizations are design documents.

Document and share everything

Sharing documentation says you believe everyone has something to contribute and gives people the knowledge to do so.

Ship fast but iterate faster

Shipping is the beginning. The next steps are the most important, when we take the time to listen, learn, and improve.

Take care of each other, and yourself

Nothing happens without us. If we’re not healthy we can’t help each other. We burn out alone or we spark together.

03Resume
Highlights
- Co-founded Vox.com, which had 20,000 unique visitors within its first six months
- Created a unified design system for more than 200 newspaper, radio, and broadcast outlets
- Won two SND President’s awards for contributions to the field of design
- Built a site to help furloughed journalists that was named best of the year by Editor & Publisher
The Atlantic, Senior Editor
- Led a cross-functional team within the newsroom to work on The Atlantic's most ambitious storytelling
- Worked on dozens of stories including tracking every migrant child separated, which won a 2023 Pulitzer
The New York Times, Creative Technologist
- Helped start an R&D team that grew from two to 30+ people and revenues into the millions, working with companies such as Meta, IBM, and Google
- Built AI tools to improve coverage during the World Cup, create better experiences for the magazine, and aid reporters during the pandemic
Vox.com, Co-founder
- Drew the original sketches for Vox.com on a napkin and hand coded the initial site daily
- Designed more than 50 tools to empower journalists, including dozens of new storytelling formats, command-line interfaces for developers, and an open source social tool used by hundreds of companies
“The difference is that Vox is open to experimentation, it demands rapid iteration, and it puts technology-shaping people on par with word-shaping people. The difference is that, in many traditional newsrooms, changing the UI on a page … would have taken multiple meetings where the tech side’s knowledge would likely have been undervalued. It’s a corporate ethos and a permission structure that means good ideas don’t have to get bottled up. It’s being the kind of place that would build Chorus in the first place. That is Vox’s edge, and you can’t buy that off the shelf.” — Nieman Lab

The Washington Post, Director of User Experience
- Rethought all digital systems with a focus on innovation including creating a highly profitable CMS
- Designed dozens of new products, such as Know More, which became the top vertical in three weeks, live, which averaged more traffic than the rest of the site combined, and an app for fact checking video in real time, which was called “the future of news”
04Skills

Design & development: Tools, New products, Innovation, Rapid prototyping, User experience, Websites, Apps, Content Management Systems, Accessibility, Analytics, WordPress; Emerging technologies: Natural language processing, Machine learning, AI, Spatial computing, Voice interfaces, Bots; Resources & training: Design thinking, Digital skills, Brainstorming, Creativity, Idea generation; Research & strategy: Culture, Operations, Creative, Editorial, Content, Video, Growth, Leadership
05Speaking

I’m always open to speaking opportunities. I give talks on emerging technologies, the intersection of product and media, design thinking, organizational design, and workplace culture. Previously, I’ve presented at TedX Poynter, WordCamp USA, and The Society for News Design.
06Side projects

Interested in working together?

I’m available for contract or full-time work,
especially if it involves journalism or food.