Designer / senior designer

Closing date: 6th December 2024

Salary range: £28,000 - £38,000 per annum, depending on experience 

Working pattern: Hybrid – minimum of two days per week in the office; up to three days per week working from home

Reports to: Art Director, Adult Trade

Department: Design

Location: HYLO, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y

Bonnier Books UK is looking for a designer / senior designer to join its award-winning design team, creating high-impact covers across its growing adult lists.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercially astute designer, looking to make their mark. You will have a particularly strong track record in commercial and reading group fiction, as you will be focusing on the cover design for the company’s adult trade division – comprising imprints Blink, Manilla Press, Ithaka, Zaffre, Eriu, and Black & White.  There will also be an opportunity to work across other genres.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of two years’ experience in trade publishing, with solid experience in commercial cover design. They will be a clear and confident communicator, with the ability to collaborate effectively with the editorial, sales and production teams to ensure that projects are delivered on time and to the highest standard.

A strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite is essential.

Positive and proactive in approach, you will enjoy working as part of a close-knit team. In return, we offer the opportunity to join a forward-thinking, vibrant and ambitious publisher, with fantastic benefits.

Key responsibilities

• Designing high-impact covers to brief, and across a broad range of lists and genres, focusing initially on commercial and reading group fiction
• Commercially astute with a keen interest in market trends and prepared to break the mould and push boundaries with designs
• Liaising with the creative studio manager and other departments including editorial, production, and sales to ensure that projects are delivered on time and to the highest standard
• Ensuring cover artwork is press-ready and supplied according to printer specification
• Presenting your own covers with confidence

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience in a design role in publishing, ideally with experience designing covers for commercial/reading group fiction
• A positive team player with a proactive approach
• A clear communicator, capable of working effectively with various teams and functions across the business
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to maintain schedules and meet deadlines
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite / Cloud

Please include a portfolio PDF with your application.

The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries. 

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