Artworker London, England
Job description
Who we are:
At Wunderman Thompson we exist to inspire growth for ambitious brands. Part creative agency, part consultancy and part technology company, our experts provide end-to-end capabilities at a global scale to deliver inspiration across the entire brand and customer experience.
We are 20,000 strong in 90 markets around the world; our people bring together creative storytelling, diverse perspectives, inclusive thinking, and highly specialized vertical capabilities to drive growth for our clients. We offer deep expertise across the entire customer journey, including communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology.
About Pulse Creative
Pulse Creative is the embedded creative and media agency for News UK.
Pulse is a WPP-backed joint venture between The&Partnership, m/SIX and Wunderman Thompson. The agency houses more than 40 experts in everything from creative, design, art working, digital content creation, comms planning, brand strategy, account handling and media planning and buying. Pulse Creative represents the collaborative, integrated agency model of the future.
Pulse Creative works on all of News UK's brand, such as The Times, The Sun, talkSPORT and Virgin Radio.
Pulse is based in News UK's offices in The News Building (formerly known as the Baby Shard), London Bridge. We are looking for someone who could work in the office at least 4 days a week.
The Role
We are seeking an enthusiastic and efficient Artworker to join our team, to work on the Times Media business. Times Media brands include The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Radio, the Times Literary Supplement, Times+ and many more. You will be the sole artworker across the Times Media portfolio, alongside a designer and will report into the Head of Design.
You will be responsible for producing high-quality artwork for print materials. You will have a proven track record of working with design concepts, reprographics and print production.
As the sole Artworker on our brand, you will have excellent communication skills, be proactive in monitoring artwork quality, accuracy and consistency. You will have a good working knowledge of digital and print artwork processes and their limitations within the design process.
You will be a self-starter with the ability to work independently and be comfortable working under pressure with daily influxes of work.
You will have interactions with clients on occasion and will be comfortable working in a collaborative way.
The ability to do high-end retouching and photo manipulation is desirable but not essential.
Key Responsibilities
- Work from designs or templates to produce artwork to a consistently high standard
- Ensure adherence to brand guidelines and templates
- Possess an in-depth working knowledge of colour profiles and outputs
- Have an excellent understanding of the production cycle and print technology and know their limitations
- Prepare artwork for print, pre-production, and flight checking
- Have excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite – principally InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- Be a good team player, able communicator and have strong time management skills
- Possess good knowledge of IT and server systems
- Experience of working on Outdoor, Press, Direct Mail, Point of Sale, and general print work
If you have a down-to-earth nature, flexibility, and a positive attitude, we would love to hear from you.
What we can offer you:
We don't settle for people who can just do the job, we look for people that go beyond that and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday. We believe that this is what makes our agency a great place to be – a space where you're never far away from the best minds to learn from.
We want you to be comfortable and proud every day of the week and have created an open and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. We don't want you to just fit into our culture, we want your uniqueness and diversity of background to add to it and make this an agency where we all have a real sense of belonging and purpose. We are a community.
Our focus is on keeping teams connected and engaged whether we're in the office or working from home, putting people's wellbeing first, ensuring every person has access to our learning and development programme and building an inclusive workplace. We have a weekly 'Staying Connected Calendar' which is full to the brim of training you can get involved in, inspiration sessions hosted by external partners to check out and wellbeing classes and tips and tricks to look after your mind, body and soul. From yoga, Pilates, HIIT, hypnotherapy, a Strava cycling group, 1:1 resilience sessions and trained mental health first aiders. To name a few. Within our office we have a dedicated wellness studio and this year we built a brand new learning lab. Here we host weekly lunchtime lessons that supports iLearn, our learning & development portal home to 100s of sessions for you to access. We're also committed to building an inclusive, equitable and diverse workforce driven by our Inclusion Council and Employee Resource Groups; Rise, Unite, Re:think, Roots, Wellbeing and Access all Areas.
Your career development is important to us. Thrive will provide you with the framework and support needed to reach your career aspirations. There really is no shortage of opportunities here for the right person that is prepared to roll their sleeves up, get involved and collaborate with those around them to deliver the best work for our clients and our agency.
At Wunderman Thompson, we are committed to actively building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued and heard, and is treated with dignity and respect. As leaders and creative partners across industries, it is our responsibility to cultivate an environment reflective of our greatest asset; our people. We believe that this commitment inspires growth and delivers equitable outcomes for everyone as well as the clients and communities we serve.
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