Designer / junior designer

Closing date: 15th November 2024

Salary: Starting at £29,000 and up to £31,500 depending on experience

Bring your creative flair to a leading team and design covers that captivate and inspire.

Profile is a thriving independent company publishing a diverse range of titles on our market-leading imprints Profile Books, Serpent’s Tail, Viper and Souvenir Press. We are the Independent Publisher of the Year 2024. 

We are looking for an outstanding designer to work on prestigious and bestselling books across our lists.

This is a full-time permanent position, reporting to our Art Director and working with departments throughout the company, to produce work that is beautiful, innovative, market-aware and responsive to briefs.

Responsibilities

• Design covers for print, e-books and audiobooks
• Prepare visuals for presentation at covers meetings
• Progress visuals to approval and artwork stage
• Liaise with Production and other departments to ensure timely delivery of materials and assets
• Manage your own admin and contribute to that of the Design department

Knowledge, skills and experience

• An excellent portfolio demonstrating creative flair, versatility and problem-solving
• Passionate about design in general and book design in particular. 
• Experience designing book covers would be welcome. However, we will also consider applications from outstanding recent graduates and freelance designers
• Highly visual, well organised, with excellent advocacy skills and the ability to multi-task whilst maintaining a keen attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines
• A good communicator, resilient and able to work collaboratively with others
• You will be proficient in Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. A working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is desirable but not essential. An art or graphic design degree or similar is desirable
• Enthusiasm for books is essential

Benefits for full time employees include 25 days holiday (rising to 30 days with length of service) plus bank holidays, generous annual bonus scheme for all employees, pension, life assurance, access to Health Assured mental health and wellbeing support, Cycle to Work scheme, hybrid working policy for full-time employees requiring a minimum of three office-based days a week.

Please apply in writing with a covering letter, PDF of your work and your CV via email by clicking the 'Apply' button by 15th November 2024.

Profile strives to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who choose to notify us at application stage and meet the essential criteria for the role.  There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.

We also encourage you to tell us of any reasonable adjustments you may require when attending an interview.  We offer expenses for travel to London to attend interviews.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.