Senior designer

Closing date: 10th February 2025

Salary: £35,000-£37,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)

Location: The role will be based at our London or Sheffield office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented, motivated and creative senior designer to join the Hodder & Stoughton art team.

With over 150 years of ground-breaking publishing from book lovers, original thinkers and market leaders, our unwavering mission has been to publish the most compelling voices in every genre. We continue to find new ground, new audiences and new voices with every title we publish. We are passionate readers and believe in the power of words to change lives.

Hodder & Stoughton is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 11 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.

What you'll be doing

• You will be a vital part of the team, expected to work across all our imprints, handling the creative process from initial brief to final artwork.
• You’ll have creative autonomy for your briefs and the opportunity to commission illustrators, photographers and other designers. 
• You will need to ensure that all work is delivered to the highest standard and on schedule, and that all administration and file management is up to date and accurate.
• You’ll work closely with staff in other departments, developing great working relationships and demonstrating strong skills in conveying ideas and effectively interpreting feedback.

Who we are looking for

• You will be a dynamic, self-starting and organised creative with significant experience in fiction design within the publishing industry and an impressive portfolio across a range of fiction from commercial to literary.
• You will be energised by the whole creative process, and constantly challenge yourself to deliver stand-out cover designs.
• Your abilities will enable you to put yourself in the shoes of our reader and design a cover that strongly engages with them. 
• We need you to bring a positive, can-do approach and a desire to build strong relationships with your immediate team, other departments, as well as illustrators, authors and agents.

In your application, please submit your CV, question answers and portfolio of recent work (which is in the cover letter section).

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension schemes
• Rent deposit loans
• 2 community days per year
• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Wide-ranging training library
• Development programmes (including mentoring)
• Up to 70% off book purchases
• A charity bookshelf
• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!

Our commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org

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