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About the Role
Lead Spotlight Sports Group’s graphics team, overseeing the delivery of high-quality visual assets for various platforms and projects. This role involves setting standards, improving workflows, and ensuring graphics are integrated early for maximum creative and strategic impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead the graphics team and develop the function, delivering high-quality visual output across editorial, audience, marketing, commercial, B2B, video, social, and print platforms.
- Assign and assist in the production of daily editorial requirements, including news graphics, premium title images, thumbnails, print assets, infographics, racing and sport packages, and motion graphics.
- Manage creative work across marketing, B2B, commercial, and brand campaigns.
- Build a positive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture.
- Pioneer ambitious digital-first visual storytelling, including data visualisation, motion/social formats, and creative approaches to complex stories.
- Set and maintain shared standards for graphics to ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, and brand alignment.
- Collaborate with senior editors, audience, product, marketing, commercial, and B2B teams to ensure early graphics involvement.
- Support the marketing function for campaign activation and branding opportunities.
- Manage photographers and build relationships with contributors, liaising on contacts, media rights, and archive material.
- Identify opportunities to automate or streamline repetitive work through templates, improved workflows, self-service options, and AI tools.
Requirements
- Experience leading a team to produce graphics, design, visual journalism, and creative editorial.
- Hands-on delivery experience in graphics and design.
- Strong understanding of digital-first publishing and the impact of visual presentation on engagement and conversion.
- Excellent editorial judgment to translate complex stories and data into visual formats.
- Proven ability to lead, manage, or influence creative teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong knowledge of design standards, visual hierarchy, typography, layout, image treatment, brand consistency, and digital asset production.
- Excellent attention to detail, including proofing, accuracy, data-checking, and quality control.
- Ability to balance speed and quality for both reactive and planned projects.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge briefs and shape ideas.
- Highly organised with excellent prioritisation skills to manage competing demands.
- Collaborative leadership style, with the ability to create clear processes and build trust.
- Strong working knowledge of relevant design, publishing, and content-production tools.
- Willingness to work weekends (approximately one in three).
- Willingness to work from the London office three days per week.
Skills
- Graphics
- Design
- Visual journalism
- Creative editorial
- Digital-first publishing
- Data visualisation
- Motion graphics
- Social media formats
- Stakeholder management
- Team leadership
- Workflow optimisation
- AI tools
- Design standards
- Visual hierarchy
- Typography
- Layout
- Image treatment
- Brand consistency
- Digital asset production
- Proofing
- Accuracy
- Data-checking
- Quality control
- Content production tools
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Lead
- Management
Benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Excellent parental leave
- Working globally policy
- Mental health support
- Assistance programs
- Social gatherings
- Pension scheme
- Various other benefit schemes
- Birthdays off work
- 25 days of holiday per year
- Life assurance
- Star card
- Step Further Awards (employee recognition program)
- Season Ticket Loan
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Complimentary access to Racing Post Members Club with Ultimate Membership
- Two days per year to volunteer with charity partner
About the Company
- Spotlight Sports Group is a global media and technology company focused on creating trusted, customer-driven experiences in racing and sports betting.
- The company combines heritage with innovation to deliver award-winning content, data, and digital products.
- With over 400 employees worldwide, their portfolio includes Racing Post, Pickswise, myracing, Free Super Tips, ICS-digital, and ICS-translate.
- They partner with leading operators, affiliates, and media groups to drive industry growth and engagement.