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About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a talented and highly creative Senior Designer to join the Puffin 6+ team on a permanent basis. Puffin is home to many imaginative and best-selling authors and illustrators, and our designers work on a huge range of different books. This role suits someone who thrives in a fast-paced, hands-on environment, is confident presenting ideas, and combines big-picture creative thinking with strong technical expertise and attention to detail.
Responsibilities
- Generate original ideas and creative approaches.
- Lead projects from pitch to print, driving them through all stages.
- Commission and art direct illustrators and designers, identifying and nurturing emerging talent to deliver distinctive market-leading work.
- Regular and ongoing input into creative meetings.
- Keeping up to date with current design trends in publishing and the wider creative industries, bringing proactive research to deliver fresh thinking.
- Build strong creative partnerships with high-profile illustrators, authors, and other external contacts.
- Build strong relationships with colleagues including editorial, sales, production, rights, marketing and publicity teams.
- Balance creative ambition with commercial priorities.
- Effective communication including strong negotiation skills, ensuring spend is managed effectively.
- Planning and management of schedules to align priorities and workflow.
Requirements
- A highly creative portfolio with specific experience in children’s fiction publishing including illustrated fiction and YA, demonstrating work on commercially successful titles and brands.
- A clear understanding of the commercial publishing landscape.
- A demonstrable interest in and understanding of the children’s publishing market, including current illustrators, authors, brands and visual trends.
- The ability to generate original creative ideas across a range of formats.
- Proven experience in developing titles from concept through to launch, supported by a strong commercial approach.
- Excellent technical design skills with advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and print production processes.
- A flexible, agile and solutions-focused approach.
- Experience championing creative ideas, with the ability to pivot and respond positively and at pace to changing priorities.
- Demonstrable experience sourcing, commissioning and building effective relationships with illustrators and freelance designers.
- Strong project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects with different lead times.
- The ability to deliver accurate, high-quality work on schedule and within budget, balancing creative ambition with the time and investment available.
- The ability to keep all administration and file management up-to-date and accurate.
Skills
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Print production processes
- Negotiation skills
- Project management
Location
- London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Circa £41,000
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
About the Company
- By bringing together the greatest stories, brands and authors of any global children’s publisher, Penguin Random House Children’s create and rediscover heroes for each new generation.
- Here at Penguin, we believe in the power of authenticity and human creativity.
- We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives, so please be yourself!
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form.