Brand Designer, Penguin Press

Penguin Press are looking for a new Brand Designer to join their Marketing team. 

This role will bring our award-winning marketing campaigns to life and work closely with both the marketing and art teams to support growth across all our channels and touchpoints. You’ll raise the standard of all our visual communications through a design conscious brand presence.

If you have excellent graphic design skills, adept with UX and UI and the Adobe Creative Suite, this could be the next role for you.

For the right candidate, we are willing to consider a four-day working week.

About Penguin Press

Penguin Press is one of the most forward-thinking and celebrated publishing houses in the industry. It is the home of Penguin Classics: the largest library of Classic works in the English language, from Dostoyevsky to John Berger. Our flagship non-fiction imprints are Allen Lane, Pelican and Particular Books, where we publish a wide range of bestselling non-fiction titles in science, politics, history, culture, psychology and poetry, as well as bespoke colour and illustrated books. Recently published in non-fiction are: Naomi Klein, Carlo Rovelli, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Paul McCartney.

The role

The aim of the Penguin Press Brand Designer is to ensure we deliver design-conscious book marketing and brand communications for our company and our publishing. You’ll work as a conduit between the book design team and the marketing team to ensure a joined-up approach and consistency across all our channels.

Key responsibilities:

• Generating creative concepts, designs or commissions for book campaigns and marketing projects that straddle both teams, from catalogues to point-of-sale, ensuring our strong cover visuals underpin our campaign approach.

• Creating and maintaining a robust set of brand marketing guidelines for Penguin Classics across all visual touchpoints, online and offline

• Receive, interpret, and playback creative briefs and present creative treatments to key divisional stakeholders.

• Ensure online-first content creation and adaptation, across newsletter, social and website.

• Picture research and development for our new and backlist Classics authors for use in marketing.

• Ensure coherent design across digital touchpoints for all Penguin Press, reviewing, advertising, sales material, merchandise, and social content - formatting all our other marketing materials to a really high standard to reflect the values of the publishing house.

• Inspire the team by being a consultative voice and source of expertise on design briefs and creative direction in order to achieve design excellence across the board.

• Contribute to product development ideas for international markets– capitalising on opportunities to grow our brands in key markets, e.g. Asia and Europe.

What you’ll bring

We are looking for someone who has design experience for a creative brand, who has had responsibility for brand communication.  You’ll also show us:

• *Experience executing design and typography to a high standard.

• *Experience working in a creative team and working with design agencies and freelancers.

• *A portfolio that demonstrates creative flair, versatility, technical skills.

• *Good understanding of UX and UI

• *Solid understanding of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign and Photoshop).

• *Demonstrable experience preparing print-ready assets.

Importantly, too, you’ll be excited and inspired by the authors on our Penguin Press list and be engaged with the wider division.

Application instructions 

Please apply with your CV, cover letter and your portfolio by 11:59pm on Wednesday 27th November.

Salary

Circa £35,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.  

What you can expect from us 

Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.  

Our benefits include: 

•  Financial – income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance 

• Wellbeing – healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks 

• Lifestyle – enhanced parental leave, tech scheme, free and discounted books 

For our full benefits list please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/what-we-offer/ 

Hybrid working 

While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role, we expect an average of two days a week in our Embassy Gardens office (with flexibility).  For the right candidate, we are happy to consider a four-day working week. 

About Penguin 

We’re the UK’s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you’ll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone. 

The recruitment process 

You can read about our recruitment process at https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/how-we-hire/ 

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. The essential criteria for this role are marked with an asterisk * as part of the “what you’ll bring” section.  There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview. 

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request. 

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee. 

Company: Penguin Books Limited 

Country: United Kingdom 

State/Region: London 

City: London 

Postal Code: SW11 7BW 

Job ID: 274900