Designer / Collage artist, Visual Storytelling
About The Role
The Telegraph are looking for a Designer specialising in collage and image making/manipulation to join the award winning Visual Storytelling team.
We are an in-house creative team within The Telegraph working across digital, print, video, events and marketing. We work directly with editorial stakeholders and a newsroom of over 500 journalists. The department’s aim is brand awareness and core engagement across multiple age groups. Pushing the creative output daily, challenging the status quo whilst staying true to The Telegraph brand.
As a team we cover daily reactional work and longer-term experiential interactive long-read designs, branding and visual identities for Podcasts and special projects. The right candidate will need to be adaptable in styles and have a flair for solving creative solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Working closely with the Design Lead on the days main features and priority pieces - Focusing on both Digital and Print outputs
- Working to fast-paced deadlines on creative initiatives
- Artworking conceptual illustrations with focus on image manipulation & collage as well as fundamental graphic design.
- Collaborating closely with Editors, Developers, Producers, and Journalists to brainstorm and storyboard visuals for the day’s’ topics
- Working closely within our small Design team and Lead Designer’s to explore concepts and produce exceptional Imagery and storytelling with a fast turnaround
- Great communication across departments is key and confidence in expressing ideas articulately to a wide range of audiences
- Providing visual guidance and support to producers, editors and journalists to ensure visual excellence across all we do both Digitally and equally print
Essential skills required for the role
- Time management, ability to juggle with multiple projects daily with fast turnaround
- An outstanding portfolio of projects, illustration and collage styles
- Have a strong graphic design/illustration aesthetic with an artistic flair
- Excellent creative and conceptual thinking
- Fluency with the full Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
- Ability to create conceptual illustrations with focus on image manipulation & collage as well as fundamental graphic design.
- Self motivated, proactive with a positive mentality
- Have an open minded and receptive approach to innovating and iterating your designs
- Thrive in a fast paced environment
- Ability to work under pressure independently and as well as part of a team
- Interest in current affairs and have a passion for telling stories and solving problems simply and creatively
- A keen eye on typography and current design trends
- Understanding of motion graphics
- Good organisation skills and experience of managing design time effectively
- Presentation skills, ability to communicate and present ideas to the wider newsroom
- Experience in editorial/newsroom is essential
Benefits
The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Training and development
With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.
Our commitment to inclusion
At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.
To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our [website](add website link here).
