Creative Designer - 12 Month FTC

NEWS UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant studio at a leading media company, where creativity meets innovation. As a Creative Designer, you'll craft compelling assets for diverse brands, from tech giants to lifestyle startups. Your role will involve collaborating with a dynamic team, preparing pitch decks, and ensuring designs meet brand guidelines. With a focus on digital and print, this position offers a unique opportunity to showcase your skills and push creative boundaries. Enjoy a flexible working environment that champions diversity and supports your professional growth, all while contributing to content that resonates with millions.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Discounted Gym Memberships

Generous Pension Scheme

Bonus Scheme

25 Days Holiday

Volunteering Days

Maternity Leave

Paternity Leave

LinkedIn Learning Access

Health and Wellbeing Support

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of design software including InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Experience in commissioning illustrators and presenting ideas to clients.

Responsibilities

• Prepare mocks and pitch decks for various sectors.
• Work with brand guidelines and liaise with stakeholders.

Skills

InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

PowerPoint

Typography

Layout Skills

Creative Thinking

Editorial Workflow Understanding

Job description

Do you want to be part of a studio that’s working on content and pitches for some of the most exciting and diverse brands on the market? Are you happy to roll up your sleeves and get designing creative assets across digital and print?

We are looking for a hands-on Creative Designer at the branded content studio for News UK, which will cover work across all of our titles.

The Team: The people that make up the team come from an array of creative backgrounds, and we are looking for you to bring your uniqueness to the team. You would be reporting to the Art Director, but also working with the rest of the design team as well as creative leads and project managers.

Your role: You will work across a number of different sectors and a variety of project types at Studio, so creative flexibility with a digital focus is a must. You must be comfortable working for tech and banking giants, to lifestyle brands to even the smaller start up brands with their own signature visual style.

Day to day:

• Preparing mocks and pitch decks for a number of different sectors and project types.
  
• Work with brand guidelines set by the Art Director
  
• Understand project briefs and liaise with internal key stakeholders and clients alike.
  
• Prepare and upload artwork for press
  
• editorial design for both print and digital
  

SKILLS REQUIRED

• A strong grasp of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and PowerPoint
  
• Strong typography, layout and technical skills
  
• Experience in commissioning illustrators
  
• Able to voice and present ideas and creative concepts to peers and clients
  
• Understanding of the editorial workflow and production processes, including colour management and the making of print-ready files
  
• Be a brilliant creative thinker with the ability to push beyond expected standards
  
• Be open to feedback and willing to make changes to their own designs
  
• Have a desire to learn about digital and social publishing platforms
  

Apply along with your portfolio

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
  
• A generous bonus scheme of 40% of annual salary, paid quarterly dependent if targets are met
  
• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
  
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
  
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
  

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.