designer Bristol, England
Job description
Employer: SWNS
Title: Junior Designer
Employment type: Full time
Location: Bristol
Salary: From £23,200
A rare opportunity has arisen to join the magazine department at SWNS - Britain’s most dynamic news content provider.
Alongside our core news agency operation at SWNS, we create several real life titles in their entirety on behalf of major publishers. These include Pick Me Up! and Chat monthly.
We are looking for a confident and creative Junior Designer to join our talented team.
Candidates must be genuinely passionate about magazines and be driven to create innovative editorial pages that are engaging and on brand.
The role:
As Junior Designer, you would be responsible for taking real life and lifestyle content from the editorial team and transforming it using InDesign into layouts across all of our magazines.
The role requires the ability to thrive under the daily challenge of adapting to different titles while understanding the importance of every single visual decision.
You would be working to tight deadlines and be involved in the continued production of the pages until the layouts are ready for print so you must be organised and obsessed with perfection.
It is also essential that you can balance creativity with the practical responsibilities of making sure each layout is on brand and meets print requirements.
All applicants must have:
- A skilled knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
- Experience in magazine or editorial design
- A degree or equivalent professional qualification in design
- A strong portfolio of designs that demonstrate excellent layout skills, creativity and attention to detail
- The ability to take artistic direction while delivering exciting new ideas
- The drive to be a friendly, enthusiastic team player
Who we are:
SWNS is the UK’s biggest independent news content provider, with 100 staff in offices across the country and a satellite in the US. We distribute more than 1,000 original media assets every day, making us one of the single biggest sources of news content for publishers across the world. Our content spans everything from breaking news and human interest to health, science and virals. We believe in real journalism; reporters, photographers and videographers who gather content on the ground and turn them into media packages which leap off the page or screen. We also work with hundreds of contributors and major publishers to licence and monetise their content. Alongside our core news agency operation, SWNS supplies a wide range of editorial and bespoke commission services ranging from assignments for brands to full outsource production services for publishers. Our passion, drive and innovative business model has seen us grow exponentially over the last decade and this role reflects our continued investment in journalism.
Please apply with a copy of your CV and relevant examples of your work.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £23,200.00 per year
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bristol
Application deadline: 18/08/2023
