Designer/senior designer

Closing date for applications: 2 October 2025

Salary: from £30,000 p.a. (depending on experience)

Put your creative stamp on academic publishing, designing standout covers for titles across fashion, philosophy, history and more!

This is an exciting opportunity to join Bloomsbury Publishing, an award-winning and independent leading publisher. We are looking for a talented, creative designer/senior designer to join our highly productive academic and professional division, which publishes across a range of subjects including fashion, philosophy, education, linguistics, design, history, drama, film and media. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop a career in book cover design, working across a broad range of projects.


Responsibilities

• Cover design of new titles across selected lists
• Generating final cover artwork (using Adobe CS) for new titles
• Liaising with editorial, marketing and production colleagues, and external suppliers on cover design, status, schedules, and budgets
• Ensure company systems are kept up-to-date with cover data, files and status
• Conduct fortnightly cover meeting with title editors

Knowledge, skills & experience

• Experience of working in an academic publishing environment
• Proven technical expertise (InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat)
• Experience of managing freelance designers and illustrators
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills
• The ability to process a large volume of work quickly and accurately
• A keen eye for detail
• The confidence to liaise with internal stakeholders and external suppliers

Additional information

The role is a full-time permanent position. As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers competitive benefits, generous staff discounts and flexible working arrangements. The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid-working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred).

Please apply with a current portfolio of work (PDF) or a link to online portfolio, CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘Apply’ button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by Thursday 2nd October 2025. For best results, please use a desktop to apply as some mobile browsers may not fully support the application portal. Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.


Bloomsbury benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

• Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)
• 25 days holiday and 3.5 days Christmas company holiday
• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Work Anywhere Fortnight - For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and 14 Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required.

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