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Are you a Design Lead with experience shepherding the entire creative process and leading a team of designers?

We’re hiring for a Design Lead to be the guardian of PinkNews’ visual identity and to be a leader and creative mentor.

PinkNews is the largest LGBTQ+ media publisher in the world. Our mission is to inform, inspire change and empower people to be themselves, we do so by reaching over 150 million unique users per month across our website, app and social platforms.

You will report to the Head of Brand. At PinkNews, the Brand team is responsible for crafting a unifying voice for PinkNews, effectively positioning the brand in the minds of key stakeholders both internally and externally - the public, advertisers, partners, media and talent. It incorporates Design, Events, Brand Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, and Data & Insights.

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 DOE

Location: Hybrid working - London office 2 days per week

What you’ll be doing day to day:

• Be the guardian of PinkNews’s visual brand identity, ensuring it is unified and consistent across all projects and platforms.
• Authoritative design and process leadership across the core responsibilities of the Design team: digital content, video, commercial, decks, UX/UI, events collateral.
• Visual creative direction of the PinkNews brand, keeping it consistent and unified.
• Be a leader and creative mentor — uphold a strong design team culture; growing, motivating, training and upskilling the team.
• Develop guidelines and training as necessary to support the content teams in maintaining quality standards and on-brand creative for their own design work.
• Work with the Brand and Partnerships teams, to oversee design of bespoke commercial campaign assets incorporating social, video, digital, print.
• Line-manage and develop the Design team, currently three designers.
• Effectively manage the team budget.
• Oversee production of corporate assets eg deck templates, pitching materials for advertising campaigns, one pager templates, events collateral.
• UX/UI work with the Product team.

Skills you’ll need:

• Experience conceptualising, presenting and pitching commercial campaign work.
• The ability to build and maintain relationships, both internally across departments and externally with clients and agencies.
• Significant experience shepherding the entire creative process and guiding a team of Designers
• Experience with people management.
• The ability to work to face-paced deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience developing creative solutions and leading and supporting the commercial pitch process.
• Excellent graphic design skills.
• Experience with Adobe CC — Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Dreamweaver.
• Experience with GSuite including Slides.
• Experience with Figma (UX/UI Design Knowledge).

Any previous experience working in an agency environment is highly desirable.

The Package:

• 35 days annual leave
• An extra day of leave for your birthday
• 24/7 access to mental health support
• Instant access to regular counselling & therapy sessions, booked directly through Slack
• Unlimited access to our well-being and mental health resource centre
• Instant access to independent financial, legal and other advice for you and your family members
• Funded training and development opportunities
• Fully funded socials, activities and away days
• Monthly team awards
• Progressive workplace policies including Transitioning At Work
• Commitment to hybrid and flexible working
• Macbook, home office equipment
• Mental Health First Aiders (training available)

What to do next:

Click apply and send your application through to us and we will get back to you as soon as we can. If you don’t think you tick all the boxes but you’re interested in the role and want to find out more, get in touch with us at [email protected]

PinkNews is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that celebrates differences, allowing you to be your authentic self at work.

As the leading LGBTQ+ Media brand, we want to use our platform to amplify voices and represent our diverse audience.