Senior Designer – Art Lifestyle Hub – Part Time 2 Days a week

At Hearst UK, there’s always more to the story. Join us as our Senior Designer to start the next chapter in your career.

Hearst UK is a leading premium content and experience business. We publish 20 brands including Good Housekeeping, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Esquire. Our digital brands reach half of UK women and one in three of UK men every month, and our trusted content engages them wherever they are. We circulate over 26 million magazines a year, we reach on average 21.1 million UK digital unique users per month and have more than 32.4 million follows via our social media platforms.

Our licensed brand extensions include Country Living sofas, Esquire apparel and accessories. We also have a growing operation offering accreditation through the state-of-the-art testing facility at the Hearst Institute.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Lifestyle publishing division at Hearst Magazines UK is home to some of the world’s most iconic and successful magazine brands including Good Housekeeping, Prima, Red. We pride ourselves on giving our readers outstanding quality journalism, originality and unforgettable brand experiences all delivered with passion, creativity and expertise. The Senior Designer will design and support the hub, from initial concept to printed product for each brand identity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the Creative Directors, Art Editor and the Art Hub to ensure the design perfectly complements the editorial content and follows the house style whilst maintaining the individual style, design and look of each brand
• Support the Art Hub in the design and layouts of all pages
• Supporting the Group Art Editor and covering Art Hub in her absence.
• Under the direction of the Creative Directors and Art Editor oversee junior designers and freelance designers
• Take direction from other members of the senior editorial team in the absence of the senior members of the Art hub
• Marking up pages to be sent to press and pre-media
• Checking colour proofs, ensuring pages are of an excellent standard and any corrections or instructions have been actioned when requested
• Retouching images and scanning if needed and supporting the senior art team with general administrative tasks
• Attending shoots and Art Directing still life shoots where necessary
• Design regular pages, features and key bonus sections across all titles
• Attend art meetings and generate exciting ideas for layout of features and regular pages
• Commission illustrations, when appropriate and after approval from Creative Director
• Assist the advertising and promotions team with requests for their clients e.g dummy layouts
• To work with industry-standard toolsets to complete your work, as well as work within the proscribed processes of the structured workflow systems used to create editorial content
• Design for digital, events and brand marketing as necessary
• You will be required to undertake commercial editorial work as and when requested by the Company

ABOUT YOU

• Ability to work effectively to meet deadlines
• Fully adaptable – able to design across all titles on all multi-platform offerings
• Ability to build close working relationships with the entire team and completely understand the vision of each brand and become a strong team player.
• Enthusiasm and endless supply of new ideas
• A passionate approach to work
• The ability to think creatively
• A strong eye for detail
• The ability to be self-motivated
• Experience working as a Designer on a publication in the consumer magazine market.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Hearst UK, you can choose from a huge range of perks and benefits that can help you learn well, work well and live well including:

• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy up to 5 additional holiday days) – pro rated for part-time or fixed-term employees
• Hybrid working model
• Discounted gym membership
• Healthcare cash plan
• Spend a charity day with your favourite good cause
• Life assurance and pension scheme
• Regular socials and more!
  

There’s more to your story than you imagine. And the next chapter begins right here.

Hearst UK is deeply committed to using our influential brands to reflect the world we want to live in – one that respects, protects, represents and uplifts the voices and opinions of all people. As a business, we recognise the significant benefits of creativity, collaboration and innovation that comes with diverse teams. Not only is diversifying the voices in our organisation the right thing to do, but it also helps us to make powerful and exciting content that can be enjoyed by many more people. This is why we’re working to build a sense of true belonging within our business and foster a culture in which everyone feels heard.