Deputy Art Director

The Farshore Design team at HarperCollins have an exciting opportunity for a creative and talented Deputy Art Director with ambition and creative vision, to lead our design team, working on the Picture Book and Illustrated Non-fiction. This position is a fixed term contract for up to 12 months.

Working closely with the Publisher and Creative Director, the candidate will be a champion of the picture book and Illustrated Non-Fiction list, identifying and bringing both new and proven talent to the list. They will have responsibility for planning, directing and leading a team of designers, developing appropriately targeted commercial picture books and illustrated non-fiction books for children.

Experience and Skills

• Experience of designing market leading book covers and interiors.
• Negotiating with and commissioning illustrators, either directly or via agents and delivering clear commercial briefs and art direction for all areas of the market.
• Supervising, managing and developing designers and freelancers
• Relevant consumer, trend and market awareness in order to help develop new commercial concepts.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – being able to present design concepts, approaches and work in progress to various internal and external stakeholders.
• You will have the vision and drive to make the books that you work on a commercial success.

Please note we will request portfolio's at a later stage in the process.

We believe that a diverse workforce strengthens our creativity and delivers the best commercial performance. We are, therefore, seeking applications from high quality people, whose backgrounds, experience and identity broadens and enhances the diversity of our company.