Designer (Mat Cover)

At Hearst UK, there’s always more to the story. Join us as our designer to start the next chapter in your career.

We’re the UK’s leading premium publisher, and the people behind iconic media brands such as ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Cosmopolitan and Country Living. We’ve created a working environment that encourages everyone to pull together. We never stop looking for brave new ideas. We’ll always try to develop and improve, we trust each other to do our best, and we have fun as we build on our heritage to make history.

We are a passionate team, dedicated to producing outstanding creative work across Esquire, ELLE and Harper’s Bazaar. We continually try to push the boundaries to create innovative, engaging and thought-provoking visuals, whilst working alongside exciting photographers, illustrators and artists around the world. Working together to support one another in the Art Department is integral to our success and so being a team player is vital to this role.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Your role as designer will be to work as part of the Luxury Hub assisting the art team in designing products and pages for ELLE, Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar and to help maintain the brands creative vision across all platforms. You’ll be responsible for working on design and visuals across all Hearst Luxury products— print, digital, events, marketing materials and commercial projects.

You will work closely to support the Creative Director, 2 x Art Directors, Art Editor, Senior Designers with the day to day workflow as well as working with the wider editorial teams involved in content creation to help realise the brands vision on the page or screen.

Your key responsibilities will involve:

• Designing pages and products across all brands and platforms, print and digital, at the direction of more senior members of the art hub
• Designing across supplements and spin off print products across all brands
• Working closely with editorial teams across brands on visual content creation across all platforms.
• Liaising and collaborating with internal commercial departments on commercial projects across all brands.
• To undertake administrative departmental tasks as required, including processing image cut-outs, uploading images to censhare, creating PDF’s and creation of individual brand signatures each month.
• Attending editorial or company meetings as required
• To be an ambassador of Hearst UK and its values.

You may be required to undertake such further duties as your skills, qualifications and experience allow and/or as may be assigned to you from time to time.

EXPERIENCE & CORE SKILLS

• Experience on the art desk of a major publication.
• A strong creative eye and ability to generate visual ideas
• Ability to forge excellent working relationships with an editorial team
• Ability to juggle multiple projects, collaborative approach to working with multiple editorial teams
• Genuine enthusiasm for the work produced across Hearst’s luxury brands
• Ability to absorb and adapt to different ways of working of different brands / EICs
• Ability to prioritise most pressing work despite competing pressures

WHAT WE OFFER

At Hearst UK, you can choose from a huge range of perks and benefits that can help you learn well, work well and live well including:

• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy up to 5 additional holiday days)
• Flexible working – we’re happy to discuss options!
• Discounted gym membership
• Healthcare cash plan
• Spend a charity day with your favourite good cause
• Life assurance and pension scheme
• Regular socials and more!

There’s more to your story than you imagine. And the next chapter begins right here.