Hybrid Junior Designer for Book Marketing

Apply Now; New York (NY); On-site; USD 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Penguin Random House LLC in New York is seeking a Junior Designer to join the Advertising and Promotions Marketing team. You will manage multiple digital, print, and motion graphics projects to support marketing across web, social, email, and print.

The role offers an onsite position at 1745 Broadway with collaboration across marketers, designers, and media buyers, and an emphasis on deadlines and high-quality output.

Qualifications

• Minimum of1–2 years of experience as a staff designer in advertising or marketing preferred.
• Trade publishing marketing design experience is a plus, but not required for success in the role.
• Excellent design flexibility, including strong type design, to create across a wide range of aesthetics, audiences, and project types.
• Proven self-starter with strong task management skills and attention to detail.
• Proven ability to prioritize multiple assignments and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate, problem solve creatively, and collaborate well with internal and external partners, and incorporating various stakeholders’ feedback under tight deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively on a team as well as independently

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day work will include collaborating closely with Marketers to refine designs, incorporate feedback, and route work to internal departments, maintaining a positive, can-do attitude in a highly deadline driven environment
• Assisting the design team in conceptualizing and designing digital and print ad campaigns as well as promotional materials for assigned titles, including but not limited to social media images, cover animations/animated gifs and other short form videos, lifestyle photos, original illustrations, website assets, postcards, templates, and back of book ads
• Creating digital and physical book mockups
• Managing departmental tasks, remote and in-office
• Traffic creative: preparing and releasing files to stakeholders, and sending projects to print
• Attend weekly status, brainstorm, and media planning meetings
• Remain current on art, design, and publishing trends offering new ideas on aesthetics and working styles into our department’s creative ecosystem to help keep our output relevant and timely

Skills

Design flexibility

Self-starter

Task management

Deadline driven

Communication & collaboration

Teamwork and independence

Job description

Penguin Random House LLC in New York is seeking a Junior Designer to join the Advertising and Promotions Marketing team. You will manage multiple digital, print, and motion graphics projects to support marketing across web, social, email, and print.

The role offers an onsite position at 1745 Broadway with collaboration across marketers, designers, and media buyers, and an emphasis on deadlines and high-quality output.