Freelance Book Designer Remote
Job description
Who we are
Write Business Resultsprovides revolutionary non-fiction publishing support services to business leaders from all industries and their publishers. Our award-winning services are designed to make authoring and promoting a book an easy and fun experience for successful entrepreneurs.
Using our uniquely developed Content Creation Process™, we plan, write, edit, illustrate, publish and promote high-quality business books, podcasts and blogs for business leaders who want to use their best content to:
- Own the intellectual space they’re in
- Become the expert
- Share their knowledge, experience and wisdom
- Inspire change
- Attract more right-fit clients
- Launch a new product/service
- Gain more speaking gigs
- Build a community
- Increase revenue, and
- As a powerful marketing tool to expand their personal brand
These books hold huge potential for their authors - our clients come from different backgrounds, work in different industries, have different perspectives on life and varied requirements, but what they all have in common is they are successful, driven, growth-focussed and interesting business men and women who have a strong message to share, and believe in the power of books, blogs and podcasts to deliver that message.
We are passionate about what we deliver to them - we take the stress and hassle out of creating a high-quality business book (and content marketing campaigns) by doing it all for the authors, including the writing, and managing all the moving parts. Our clients are busy, busy people who expect a reliable and efficient service, and your design work is an important and respected aspect of the finished product.
The company has ambitious growth goals for the years ahead that you’ll be an important part of… your work will be published and in the hands of thousands of people! Our growth relies heavily on client referrals, so we only work with freelancers who take pride in what they do and have a genuine love for it, and who share our values (below). You may only want to do a few books a year or you may want to own our client marketing design but those who want both could be very busy! We build long-term relationships with right-fit clients and team members and put a lot of effort into creating a culture that people are proud of and energised by.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll be creating the imagery for our own and our clients’ marketing campaigns and the book covers and interiors too. Right now, the content marketing design availability is immediate and the book design will start in the summer. Your responsibilities include:
Content Marketing
- Podcast cover art and blog header images:Produce three design samples for each new client based on the Design Brief provided.
Include one round of internal amendments to tweak the samples to match the brief before sending to the client.
Include one round of minor client amendments to the samples so they’re happy with their chosen style.
Weekly blog header images to match each new article in the chosen style and weekly podcast cover art updates to include episode titles and guest headshots.
- Social media images to match the posts.
- Designing branded ebooks/downloadable guides.
- Presentation slides.
- Audiograms.
- Light video edits and branding.
- Other visual content marketing based on additional client requests.
Tools you’ll need: Canva.com, Adobe InDesign, and any other software you use that enables the best results.
Books
- Produce three design samples for the front cover and 3 for the interior based on the Design Brief provided for the client to approve prior to going ahead with designing the entire cover spread book.
- Include one round of internal amendments to tweak the samples to match the brief before sending to the client.
- Include one round of minor client amendments to the samples so they’re happy with their chosen style.
- Front, spine and back cover design.
- Interior typesetting.
- Publishing support: self-published books are published using Amazon KDP, lulu.com and similar online platforms. The upload can sometimes knock the images out of position so in this case you may need to make some adjustments.
Tools you’ll need: Adobe InDesign.
You already have the necessary technology and skill set. You’ll have access to the client’s project boards, a design brief, a project brief and the rest of the WBR team via our #design Slack channel. We’ll talk as many times as you need to feel confident with each project’s requirements. You won’t have any contact with the client, instead, the WBR account manager will act as your point of contact.
It’s important that you:
- Can manage your own workload
- Can commit to due dates for your work and open communication that your team can rely upon.
- Bring attention to detail and creative input to each project.
- Know how to take ownership of your contribution, self-manage, and naturally hold yourself accountable.
- Align with our values as a way of working.
Our values
Coupling our passion for our work with our specifically-designed award-winning processes, people-centric culture, coaching background and personal touches to all our services, we help our clients take their message to the masses in a truly unique format. Our guiding principles are:
Reliability
We show up with professionalism and punctuality; our consistency, good habits, and commitment to our word allow us to trust and be trusted.
Ease
Our focus on streamlining activities and our proactivity creates momentum and delivery processes that are simple, innovative and fun.
Brilliance
We harness our unique abilities, perspectives, and expertise to deliver a product that shines.
Positivity
We approach challenges with a calm and constructive mindset, openly and enthusiastically collaborating with each other to find win-win solutions.
Quality
Treating our clients’ content as if it’s our own, we deliver products to completion with high standards and mastery.
We believe that becoming a known content creator and industry expert is about far more than merely receiving a service or executing a marketing strategy. It’s a bucket-list experience our clients will remember for the rest of their lives. After leaving our hands, our clients’ work goes on to impact thousands of people (sometimes more), make their families proud, build legacies and contribute to a more progressive world. Playing a role in that journey is a real privilege and we love being a part of it!
Learn more:
https://linktr.ee/personalbrandhowto
Please only respond to this ad if you also work in this way and you have the necessary skills and experience. We are not in a position to train anyone on the details of how to do this work and only work with people who we can see are a strong cultural fit with a view to a long-standing, regular working relationship. We provide checklists, workflows, project boards and due dates for all work.
What we pay & typical timeframes
- Each content marketing client project comes with a ‘menu’ of rates for the items you’ll be working on. The projects are standardised to a degree so you’ll have full transparency on what each one is worth.
- Each book project comes with a flat fee of £1200. All payments are paid in 25% installments (first one when work begins, and then monthly with the last payment due once your role in the project is completed to spec.
- Invoices are submitted by the same due date each month and paid on the last working day of the same month assuming they are itemised and accurate.
- Typical timelines for your work on each book vary from 8 weeks to several months, however, given the nature of the clients and their work, the projects can be prone to change and can occasionally drop off the radar for a little while. This can sometimes ‘pause’ projects for up to a couple of months. You’ll need to be able to go with the flow and manage this.
- We do your Kolbe A Index after your first book, so we can play to your strengths and natural way of working as much as possible.
To apply, please send your portfolio with relevant work examples to [email protected]. Preferred start date: March 20th 2023.
We cannot respond to applications sent to inboxes other than the one above. Please apply to helen@ with examples of your best work.
Job Types: Freelance, Internship
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: £350.00-£3,500.00 per month
Benefits:
- Company events
- Flexitime
- Referral programme
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Application question(s):
- How would you describe your mindset in 3 words?
Experience:
- graphic design: 5 years (required)
Language:
- English (required)
Work Location: Remote
Application deadline: 16/03/2023
Reference ID: WBR-GD23
Expected start date: 20/03/2023
