Graphic Artist
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Graphic Artist
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is seeking a Graphic Artist to join [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] and [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]. This hybrid role involves creating distinctive graphics and visual storytelling across all platforms.
Your Role
Graphic Artists are responsible for delivering distinctive graphics and other visual story-telling components across all platforms for [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] and [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]. They will bring stories to life with clean, clear and engaging graphics, and push the boundaries to find new and exciting ways of delivering world-class journalism while ensuring all output remains true to [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] and [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] aesthetics. We offer a balanced hybrid work model, combining office-based and remote work.
Day to Day You Will
- Successfully manage a productive relationship with the graphics editor, the executive graphics editor and senior editors as well as designers, graphics artists and journalists across the newsroom.
- Pitch and create original graphics that enliven our journalism and provide inspiration to senior editors and journalists.
- Able to translate and execute a graphics brief successfully and to strict deadlines.
- Follow current affairs and understand the papers perspectives and how they differ from one another.
- Be at the forefront of emerging technologies and trends in print and digital graphics formats.
- Work a variety of shifts across 7 days in news, features and sport sections including weekend and late shifts.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience in publishing at a newspaper or magazine.
- Proficient in industry standard design applications, including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator with a knowledge of After Effects and a 3D software.
- Working knowledge of AI2HTML, animated SVGs, HTML, CSS, R and Python.
- Competent at handling data sets and using Google Sheets to create high quality data visualisations.
- Experience in multi-platform design and digital products.
- Demonstrable interest in current affairs.
- An ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines and with rigorous accuracy.
- Ability to communicate succinctly and effectively.
- Experience of working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
- Persuasive presentation skills, well-developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to problem-solve.
- A strong understanding of editorial compliance and regulatory issues.
About Us
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is wholly owned by [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].
For any application support, contact [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].