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Bridge Studio, Designer - Maternity Cover

Employer
News UK
Location
London
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
18 Aug 2019

Job Details

We are:

News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world.

Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Unruly, a global ad tech company, and Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.

The Team:

Bridge Studio is the creative content agency within News UK and we are looking for a talented, multi-skilled  Designer to join our award winning team.

We create bespoke campaigns for our clients and agencies that harness emotions to change how people think, feel and act around commercial brands. We do this by telling stories that entertain, excite and inspire across digital, print, video, social, audio, events and more.

We craft editorial content that forges powerful connections with the audiences reached through News UKs portfolio:  The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, Wireless radio, Unruly and Storyful.

The Bridge Studio design team works with creative leads, picture editors and project managers to think up, create and deliver the best blend of editorial and branded cross platform content whilst collaborating with the industries finest photographers, videographers, illustrators, set designers, stylists and artists.

Our wide range of creative expertise and diverse skill sets give us the ability to craft forward-thinking and inspirational cross-platform solutions.

Your Role:

As a Designer you will play a vital role in ensuring that Studio projects meet the highest possible standards.

The ideal candidate will have strong digital and print skills and will be a key figure in pioneering new techniques, products, skill sets and innovations to ensure that our work is the best in the industry.

Day to day:

  • Work closely with the Creative Director and Art Director to aid in the design of key campaigns for clients, developing forward thinking visual concepts and executing them across multiple platforms 
  • Liaise with external clients and internal stakeholders to uphold the highest design standards and influence the best professional practices ensuring that our work is above industry standard
  • Developing design and shoot concepts and working with the Director of Photography and Senior Picture Editor to commission photographers, stylists, set designers, illustrators and artists that are best suited for specific projects and briefing them in detail and to budget
  • To remain up-to-speed on creative industry developments and current design trends and to ensure that the design desks output is continuously fresh and innovative 
  • To aid in the creative direction of both video and photo shoots with clarity of the end result, and an eye for spotting opportunities for generating additional content for social and digital platforms whilst on set
  • To aid in the design of pitch work, decks and internal communications


What we are looking for from you:

  • Full understanding of editorial design principles with excellent and demonstrable typography skills
  • Fully competent in designing cross platform. UX/UI is highly advantageous 
  • An enviable contacts book and experience in commissioning illustrators, photographers, set designers, artists and stylists is highly advantageous
  • Experience on both photo and video shoots is highly advantageous 
  • Excellent oral/visual communication skills, including the ability to communicate ideas and concepts to clients and other stakeholders within the business
  • Highly proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects. 
  • Highly organised and able to pivot between daily deadlines and longer-term projects
  • Problem-solving skills and the ability to develop design solutions to a changing brief
  • The initiative to take on and learn new tasks in a fast-moving environment
  • Solid understanding of the commercial content market and how to produce content for commercial brands, clients and agencies
  • Is truly platform agnostic when developing ideas and has the ability to make content work cross-platform with due consideration for both commercial brand effectiveness and audience user journey
  • Well versed in social media-specific concepts. With an understanding of execution formats and creative best practice for social media networks: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and YouTube
  • Knowledge of HTML5 and CSS would be advantageous


Equal opportunities:

The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace.

We are a diverse and team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised.

This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age.

Company

News UK is a great company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are a company which has journalism at its very heart.

Our newspapers and associated websites are some of the most powerful media brands in the English speaking world, reaching 30 million people each week.

They are very different products with different values and different strengths, but all are united by a commitment to independent journalism that connects with our customers.

News UK is a company which thrives on pace. Our people stretch themselves on a daily basis, challenging the status quo to produce the best service possible to our readers and customers. We embrace creativity and initiative and we have some of the most talented people in the industry.

If you want to work for one of the world's most exciting, challenging and creative media organisations then News UK is the place to build your career.

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Location
1 London Bridge Street
London
SE1 9GF
GB

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