Publishing Design Lead: Create Scalable Design Systems

White Rose Education; Halifax; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Generous annual leave

Funded professional development

Wellbeing support

Free on-site parking

Job summary

White Rose Education, based in the UK, is seeking a Creative Design Lead to set the visual standard for its publishing resources used by thousands of teachers. You will own templates, layouts and artwork for print and digital resources, and hand‑on create much of that work yourself.

Initially no direct reports, with potential to lead as the department grows. You will design across print and digital schemes, build master templates and asset libraries, and manage print-ready artwork through

Qualifications

• Senior design experience in publishing or other high-volume, template-driven environments.
• Expert InDesign, plus Illustrator and Photoshop, including styles, master pages and long documents.
• Proven print production and pre-press experience.
• A portfolio showing template and system work that others have produced from.
• Experience delivering to publication dates that do not move.
• Awareness of publishing governance and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and lay out schemes of learning, workbooks, worksheets, assessments and digital resources.
• Build and maintain the master templates, grids, type styles and asset library everything is produced from.
• Own print-ready artwork and pre-press, including specification, proofing, colour and printer liaison.
• Make design serve learning: clear hierarchy, sensible cognitive load and accessible typography.
• Brief and art direct freelance illustrators and designers.
• Work closely with editors and subject specialists to a fixed publishing calendar.

Job description

White Rose Education, based in the UK, is seeking a Creative Design Lead to set the visual standard for its publishing resources used by thousands of teachers. You will own templates, layouts and artwork for print and digital resources, and hand‑on create much of that work yourself.

Initially no direct reports, with potential to lead as the department grows. You will design across print and digital schemes, build master templates and asset libraries, and manage print-ready artwork through