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About the Role
We are looking for a talented, thoughtful, and hands-on Midweight Designer to join our commercial creative team. You will produce distinctive and beautifully executed work for globally recognised partners, creating commercial campaigns spanning print, digital, social media, and live experiences.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of allocated design projects, contributing ideas and developing creative work from brief to final artwork and delivery.
- Create concepts and layouts, select and work with imagery, adapt designs across different formats, and ensure accuracy.
- Collaborate with commercial, design, editorial, photography, production, and project management teams.
- Contribute ideas during briefings and creative reviews to ensure campaign cohesion.
- Balance several projects and deadlines, respond constructively to feedback and changing priorities.
- Maintain excellent creative and technical standards.
- Support the Commercial Art Director with creative proposals and presentations.
- Occasionally contribute to client conversations.
Requirements
- At least three years of professional graphic design experience, ideally in a creative agency, publishing, media, or commercial brand environment.
- Portfolio demonstrating original and excellently executed work across print and digital.
- Strong understanding of typography, layout, brand identity, and visual storytelling.
- Comfortable developing work from an initial brief and early ideas through to final artwork.
- Ability to interpret creative direction and apply feedback thoughtfully.
- Ability to produce work that balances Monocle’s design standards with partner objectives, audiences, and practical requirements.
- Experience preparing accurate final artwork for print and digital delivery.
- Good understanding of print production and creative workflows.
- Experience adapting creative work consistently across different platforms and formats.
- Ability to manage several projects without losing sight of the details.
- A genuine interest in design, culture, and contemporary visual communication.
- Appreciation of Monocle’s visual identity, editorial standards, and international outlook.
- A collaborative, resourceful, and solutions-focused approach.
- Experience delivering commercial campaigns, branded content, or integrated creative projects is valuable.
- Motion-design skills and familiarity with After Effects or similar tools are desirable, though not essential.
- Must have the right to work in the UK.
Skills
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Excellent typography skills
- Excellent layout skills
- Excellent image-selection skills
- Motion-design skills (desirable)
- Familiarity with After Effects (desirable)
Location
- Midori House, Marylebone
Work Type
- Full-time
- Based in the office five days a week
- Some travel might be required
Experience Level
- Midweight
- At least three years of professional experience
Benefits
- Discounts at The Monocle Shop and Café
- Breakfast five days a week
- Health, dental, and life insurance
- 23 days of annual leave
- Seven-day Christmas shutdown
- Eight bank holidays
- Dog-friendly office
About the Company
- Monocle is an international media brand encompassing print, digital, a round-the-clock radio station, books, newsletters, events, shops, e-commerce, and cafés.
- We work with ambitious organisations around the world to create campaigns that are intelligent, original, and artfully produced.
- You will join a team of curious, creative, and international people who care deeply about ideas, design, and quality.
- This is an opportunity to develop thoughtful creative work across a wide range of subjects and formats while building a strong understanding of brands, audiences, and the commercial side of an independent global media business.