To hazard a response, meeting a deadline creatively is knowing how best to trim, tweak and reimagine your concept to get in done in time.
One of the most fun and different aspects about writing code in a newsroom is the extremely different timescales that are involved compared to normal programming.
If you think it sounds like fun to sit down in front of a blank page of HTML with a fresh government dataset, RStudio, a copy of D3, a cup of coffee and 36 hours to see how good of an exploration and explanation you can come up with, this might be the job for you.