Job Description

About The Role

The Telegraph are looking for a middleweight designer to be part of the design team where experimentation and learning are encouraged.

The award-winning Visual Storytelling team is an in-house creative team within The Telegraph working across digital, print and motion. We work directly with editorial stakeholders and a newsroom of over 500 journalists.

The department’s aim is to present award winning journalism in a way that is accessible and engaging to a wide audience. Pushing the creative output daily, challenging the status quo whilst staying true to The Telegraph brand. All our work is made daily, with occasional weekly briefs.

Key Responsibilities

• Creating visual stories, in an innovative and highly creative manner
• Working to fast-paced deadlines on edition based products
• Collaborating with Infographic Designers, Video Editors, Editors, Developers and Journalists to brainstorm and storyboard short stories for the day's topics
• Working closely with other designers to bring stories to life, in a short, snappy, highly visual format
• Working with the Art Director, to develop a leading industry approach on this platform and across other existing formats
• Good communication across departments is key

Key Skills

• An outstanding portfolio of projects
• Have a strong graphic design/illustration aesthetic
• Know your way around the full Adobe suite (Animate, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign plus Sketch)
• Have an open-minded and receptive approach to innovating and iterating your designs
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment, working as part of a team
• Be interested in current affairs and have a passion for telling stories
• Be energetic and have an appetite for experimentation
• A keen eye on current design trends
• An understanding of motion graphics

Our 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.