Front-End Designer / Developer for Visual Storytelling

Times Law; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK media company seeks a creative Front-End Designer/Developer to enhance digital storytelling in their newsroom. This role involves collaborating on ambitious projects to create compelling narratives, utilizing skills in coding and design. Ideal candidates will have experience in front-end development and a passion for journalism.

Benefits

Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full salary

Private medical insurance

Up to 60% discount on books

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Discounted gym memberships

Access to LinkedIn Learning

Generous pension scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in front-end development, visual journalism, or editorial design.
• Familiarity with storytelling libraries like GSAP, Lottie.
• Understanding of accessibility standards in web development.

Responsibilities

• Build custom editorial features and interactive articles.
• Collaborate with journalists to enhance digital experiences.
• Prototype and optimize features based on feedback.

Skills

Animation

Visual storytelling

Front-End Development

User Experience

Tools

Figma

Illustrator

Photoshop

Job description

Front-End Designer / Developer for Visual Storytelling

Front-End Designer / Developer for Visual Storytelling

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We are looking for a creative and technically skilled Front-End Designer / Developer to join our newsroom and collaborate on ambitious investigative, data-driven, and multimedia storytelling projects. You’ll be part of a cross-disciplinary team working to expose truths, explain complexity, and hold power to account - crafting innovative digital experiences that amplify the impact of our journalism whilst elevating and pushing our technical capabilities

This role is ideal for someone who can think like a designer, code like a developer, and tell stories like a journalist. You’ll partner with reporters, data analysts, other developers and the design team to translate deep investigative work into dynamic, accessible, and compelling digital narratives.

From scrollytelling features to data-driven visual narratives, you’ll help shape how readers experience our stories online—designing and building bespoke editorial projects that elevate reporting through design, code, and thoughtful user experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and design custom editorial features and interactive articles that enhance reporting and engage readers.
• Collaborate closely with journalists, editors, designers and developers to translate reporting into compelling digital experiences.
• Develop the use of AI2HTML to create web-based animated graphics
• Integrate animation, data visualisation, and multimedia elements into editorial layouts.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on designs based on editorial goals and real-time feedback.
• Optimize interactive features for performance, accessibility, and editorial deadlines.
• Contribute to newsroom discussions about innovative ways to present complex information visually.

Qualifications

• Experience in front-end development, visual journalism, or editorial/interaction design.
• Familiarity with animation or storytelling libraries (e.g. Shorthand, GSAP, Lottie, Scrollama).
• A keen eye for design, layout, and visual hierarchy, especially in a journalistic context.
• Experience working in a newsroom or on editorial products is highly valued.
• Understanding of accessibility standards and performance optimization in web development.
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Familiarity with version control (e.g., Git) and collaborative workflows.
• Keeping on top of latest trends in both design and front-end development
• Are passionate about journalism and believe in the power of visual storytelling to inform, explain, and engage.
• Thrive at the intersection of design, development, and editorial thinking.
• Follow best practices in visual journalism and enjoy experimenting with new digital formats.
• Work well on deadline and can adapt to fast-changing editorial needs.

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, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform 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

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Some of our benefits include:

• 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
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [e-mail].

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Writing/Editing and Information Technology

• Industries

  Newspaper Publishing

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