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About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Designer to create striking, market-leading book covers and special editions for Canelo and fiction custom projects. This role involves leading design efforts, bringing innovation, and shaping the creative vision within a passionate team.
Responsibilities
- Designing market-leading covers for Canelo and preparing print-ready files.
- Overseeing freelance cover design and expanding the freelance designer pool.
- Leading the design and execution of special editions and box sets.
- Presenting designs at divisional jacket meetings and the weekly global Sales Jacket Meeting.
- Collaborating with Editorial, Production, Sales, and Marketing & PR teams.
- Creating and maintaining sales and presentation assets for key markets.
- Serving as the primary point of contact for design-related queries.
- Negotiating terms with external suppliers and monitoring workflows.
Requirements
- Proven experience in designing fiction and non-fiction covers from conception to print.
- High technical expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator).
- Exceptional eye for detail, strong visual literacy, and experience in picture research and artwork management.
- Exceptional typographic skills.
- Experience in commissioning illustration and preferably photography.
- In-depth knowledge of print processes, color management, and file setup.
- Strong commercial awareness to identify market trends.
- Outstanding time management and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working with North American markets (desirable).
- Background designing for crime, thriller, and romance genres (desirable).
Skills
- Book cover design
- Special edition design
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Photoshop
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- Picture research
- Artwork management
- Typography
- Illustration commissioning
- Photography commissioning
- Print processes
- Color management
- File setup
- Commercial awareness
- Time management
- Stakeholder management
Location
- Pimlico, London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote working from abroad (with criteria)
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Up to £50,000 depending on skills and experience
Benefits
- Bonus
- 25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one, plus bank holidays
- Generous pension scheme
- Volunteering policy and charity matching
- Employee assistance programme
- 70% discount on company books
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Shopping discounts
- Flex Fridays (1pm Finish*)
- Up to 30 days remote working from abroad*
- A tree planted for every new employee
About the Company
- DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world.
- DK is proud to announce that we have adopted The Halo Code.
- DK is a member of the disability confident scheme.
- DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working weekly from home and in DK’s office.
Equal Opportunity
- We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background.
- We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.