Designer

Our Media; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading special-interest content business in Bristol is seeking a proactive Designer to join their creative team. The role involves supporting art directors to deliver a variety of projects across digital and print formats. Applicants should have strong layout skills, experience with Adobe Creative Suite, and a solid portfolio demonstrating cross-platform design capabilities. This position offers a hybrid working model with flexible hours and a variety of employee benefits.

Benefits

Pension contribution matched to 5%

Season ticket loan

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year

Regular in-house learning events

4x life assurance

Qualifications

• Confident and creative designer with strong fundamentals in layout and typography.
• Comfortable designing for print and digital formats.
• Eager to learn, open to feedback, and a team player.

Responsibilities

• Provide design support across multiple accounts and media.
• Collaborate with senior art directors to realise concepts.
• Contribute to both print and digital formats.

Skills

Layout skills

Design sensibility

Brand detail focus

Visual storytelling

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

Job description

Overview

Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in Bristol. We work with brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music, across print, video and online. Our brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Your Home, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus. We also have an award-winning content agency that collaborates with major charities, brands and membership organisations to tell their stories and engage audiences.

Position

We are looking for a proactive, hungry and talented Designer to join our busy creative team. This is a hands-on, varied role across multiple accounts and media, including magazine layouts, art editing, social-first and digital channel content, branded campaigns and more.

You will support senior art directors and designers to bring ideas to life with strong layout skills, design sensibility and an eye for brand detail. You’ll work on both digital and print formats and contribute to a broad range of projects for major UK clients in nature and conservation, and leisure and entertainment. This is an ideal opportunity for someone with a few years of agency, brand, branded content or publishing experience who is ready to take the next step in a creative, fast-paced setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide design support across multiple accounts and media, including magazine layouts, art editing, social-first and digital content, and branded campaigns.
• Collaborate with senior art directors and designers to realise concepts with strong layout, typography and brand consistency.
• Contribute to both print and digital formats and learn from an experienced team on a range of projects for major UK clients.

Requirements

A bit about you

• A confident, curious and creative designer with strong fundamentals in layout, typography and visual storytelling.
• Comfortable designing for print and digital formats and able to adapt across styles and audiences.
• Eager to learn, open to feedback, and able to work independently and as part of a close-knit team.
• Thrives in a fast-moving environment and takes pride in delivering polished, brand-appropriate design work.

Essential Experience

• Proven professional design experience in an agency, publishing or in-house brand setting, including print.
• Experience designing content within brand guidelines and creating assets for multiple platforms.
• Solid working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Understanding of print production processes and digital design considerations.
• A strong portfolio showing cross-platform design thinking and attention to detail.

Preferred Experience

• Evidence of work using AI tools to improve design outcomes and processes.
• Proficiency in Figma and/or other digital design prototyping tools.

Other information

We respect and value differences. We encourage applicants who feel their experience doesn’t perfectly match every listed item to apply anyway, as you may be a good fit for this or other roles. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and have six internal D&I network groups to support our people. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible at [e-mail].

Flexible working

We operate a hybrid pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office. Benefits include a flexi time policy and a flexi location policy allowing two weeks of remote work per year. We are open to flexible working requests beyond these policies.

Company Benefits

• Pension contribution matched to 5%
• Season ticket loan
• Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, Christmas closure, and your birthday off
• Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Social committee, regular in-house learning events
• 4x life assurance

Our values

We believe work is about how we achieve outcomes as well as what we achieve. We co-created values with input from the team:

• Be kind
• Always curious
• Be the best we can be

We also have a sustainability strategy built on five pillars: Research, Reduction, Recycling, Responsibility, and Reporting. Our Eagle House office is a zero-waste facility powered by solar and renewable energy.

Apply

Apply today to take the next step in your career with Our Media. Click the apply button below to submit your CV. Note: CVs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and the role may close early due to high interest. If you’re interested, please apply as soon as possible.