Creative Artworker

Are you a skilled Creative Artworker ready to bring designs to life with meticulous precision and flair?

Join our Brand division and showcase your talent by delivering flawless artwork across a diverse range of digital, print and POS touchpoints. Your expertise will be essential in producing captivating presentations and reports, utilising brand templates and a keen understanding of type hierarchy and layout to create bold, clean communications. Comfortably collaborating with designers, internal clients and vendors, you'll play a vital role in ensuring seamless project coordination and communication, making you an invaluable and approachable member of our dynamic team.

This is an incredible opportunity to be a part of a historic milestone for one of the most beloved and enduring brands in the literary world. As our Creative Artworker, you will play a crucial role in the delivery of a wide range of deliverables and events throughout 2025, including our 90th Birthday celebrations.

If you have a passion for turning creative visions into polished reality and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Crafting designs that seamlessly flow across our website, newsletter and social channels, ensuring a cohesive and impactful presence.

• Proficiently using style guides and toolkits to maintain brand adherence and accessibility requirements, guaranteeing a polished and professional image.

• Transforming creative designs into user-friendly templates in Creative Cloud, Canva and PPT, empowering non-design team members to effortlessly create captivating content.

• Meticulously owning our file management system, ensuring easy access and well-organised files for relevant teams.

• Eagerly embracing new programs, skills and techniques, embracing a continual learning mindset.

• Showcasing adeptness in basic image retouching, from colour balancing to adapting mock-ups with different artwork, adding finesse to every visual.

• Cultivating an interest in producing simple photographic images using our in-house studio and equipment, guided by our design visionaries.

• Upholding the consistent and high-quality implementation of the Penguin brand across all communications, standing as the guardian of our brand's impression to our audiences.

What you’ll bring:       

• Experience bringing digital assets to life.

• A keen eye for design detail and a deep passion for visual communications across all creative touchpoints.

• Proficiency in retouching and product photography, with a touch of Canva knowledge.

• Proficient in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.

• Knowledge in paid media requirements and best practices.

• A strong understanding of brand guidelines and toolkits.

• Confidence in using Microsoft Office suite.

• An ability to manage multiple live projects simultaneously.

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. 

Our approach to hybrid working:

While our offices are places for you to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, having flexibility about where you work is just as important for doing your best work and for your wellbeing. So, we don’t have a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to how we work across Penguin Random House UK.

For this role, there are regular meetings and activities that you will need to attend in person mainly at our offices in London. Outside of these moments, you can choose to work remotely.

The exact balance of office to remote working can be discussed with your future manager during the recruitment process. What we can say now is that you won’t need to go into the office five days a week, unless of course you want to!

If you have a passion for design and a keen eye for detail, we want to hear from you. Please apply with your CV and cover letter or portfolio by 11:59pm on Wednesday 3rd July.

What you can expect from us:

Salary: circa £32,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

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

• Financial – discounted shopping, season ticket loan, rental deposit loan

• Wellbeing – healthcare cash plan, employee assistance, gym loan

• Lifestyle – taste card, tech scheme, free and discounted books

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

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're part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can't 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: 271663