Designer/ Senior Designer
- Application Deadline: Dec. 6, 2024
- London
- Hybrid
Job title: Designer/ Senior Designer
Reports to: Art Director, Adult Trade
Location: HYLO, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y
Working pattern: Hybrid – minimum of two days per week in the office; up to
three days per week working from home
Department: Design
Salary range: £28,000 - £38,000 per annum, depending on experience
General Summary
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 pro-active 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.
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
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
Qualifications and Experience
- A minimum of two years’ experience in a design role in publishing, ideally with experience designing covers for commercial/reading group fiction
- A positive team player with a pro-active 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
If you are interested in this role, please apply via our website. We look forward in hearing from you. Please include a portfolio PDF with your application.
Great Place to Work
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Competitive Salary
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Working with a team of passionate, talented people
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Internal learning and development programmes
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Career Development opportunities
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Fun social events
About the company
At Bonnier Books UK, we believe that every book matters. We love to publish stories and content that open our eyes to new perspectives and bring us closer together. We offer a nurturing home for our authors, illustrators and brand partners, publishing bestselling books for readers and listeners everywhere. We know that fantastic stories can come from anywhere and our purpose is to bring them to as wide an audience as possible, a simple ethos that has led to us becoming one of the country’s leading publishers.
The offspring of Bonnier Books, a family-owned top-15 world publisher headquartered in Sweden, we are inspired by a rich literary heritage but not bound by convention. We think in generations rather than quarters, and strive always to operate in an open, curious way that contributes to the future of the planet and its people. As a climate-neutral publisher we are an active participant in the Science Based Target initiative, committed to a strategy to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.
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