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About the Role
As a Designer, you will work closely with the Art Director, studio manager, and Senior Designers to create effective, high-quality designs for a range of titles, meeting bespoke creative and commercial briefs. You will lead projects from pitch to print, manage budgets, and collaborate with various departments.
Responsibilities
- Creating effective, high-quality designs for a range of titles to meet bespoke creative and commercial briefs.
- Leading on projects from pitch to print and working with the Art Director to monitor and review the direction of projects to keep on track.
- Commissioning illustrators/designers and developing their ideas.
- Keeping on top of budgets and being responsible for ensuring spend is within budget.
- Read and analyse book text.
- Planning and management of schedules.
- Proactively researching innovative design and book ideas, identifying concepts and initiating ideas.
- Collaborating with key colleagues across the business, including Editorial, Production, Sales and Rights.
- Effective communication including negotiation skills.
Requirements
- A proven track record of developing high quality concepts and designs for book covers across a range of genres and styles, including for high-profile brands and authors.
- Fluency in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
- A clear communicator with experience of collaborating with illustrators and other freelancers.
- Engaged with and motivated by big ideas and the latest trends.
- Exceptional organisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, all with different lead times.
- An ability to ensure that all work is delivered to the highest standard and on schedule – and that all administration and file management is up-to-date and accurate.
- Understand how to create design work for print.
Skills
- Typographic skills
- Layout skills
- Design eye
- Creative flair
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Communication skills
- Negotiation skills
- Organisation skills
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Circa £34,000 annually
Benefits
- Bonus
About the Company
- Michael Joseph publishes some of the world’s most popular authors, specializing in women’s fiction, crime, thriller, cookery, memoir and lifestyle books.
- Many of our authors are household names, here in the UK and around the world.
- We seek out the very best authors in their field and bring their books to the widest possible audience.
- We take an author’s vision and turn it into a beautiful package people can’t help but talk about.
- In a crowded market, our books must shine.