As the creative lead on BBC.com’s features team, you will have an opportunity to create break-through design concepts and execute them across a variety of mediums and formats, contributing to our visual identity and being sure it’s carried through on every piece of content we put out. Whether a quick turn story reacting to the day’s news, a deeply reported feature with on-the-ground photography, or a graphic package for an onsite video: With your help these will all look and feel BBC — elevated, exclusive, and engaging.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Reporting in to the Head of Multimedia on the photo and art desk, helping direct the overall visual narrative and graphics on features articles and video
- Implement and maintain our brand standards
- Create moodboards and visual directions presenting breakthrough visual ideas to elevate the aesthetic impact of BBC.com feature articles, social and video content
- Work with external vendors, including photographers, illustrators, agencies and more
- Help identify and develop efficiencies in the creative processes
- Review versioned artwork, approving items at critical steps
- Compose and adjust visuals strategy to address key business KPIs of reach, revenue, and reputation to always create work that performs
- Above all else be a creative visionary who understands engaging visual storytelling
Knowledge & Skills:
- You are a strong communicator, both visually and verbally, and eager to collaborate across a global team of engaged journalists, editors, and video producers
- You are an enthusiastic storyteller, understanding the importance and need for crafting beautiful visual narratives
- Highly independent, but highly collaborative, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, managing shifting priorities
- You have a passion for news and culture and like pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in design
Professional Experience:
- 7+ years experience in media (digital publishing preferred; social content creation a bonus)
- You have experienced in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
- Has a deep understanding and is passionate about visual hierarchy, branding, color systems, typography, layouts, photography and how these elements come together to create impactful designs
- Photo research experience in an editorial environment and using key Stock databases (Getty, etc.) as well as sourcing and commissioning original photography
Behaviors:
- Open and receptive to feedback and comfortable providing feedback
- Outstanding communication skills both written, oral and presentation.
- Able to collaborate across organizational boundaries, embrace change, and make improvements to working practices.
- Global mindset: thinking and acting for both local and global needs
- Self-starter with the ability to see projects through to completion, problem solve, and multi-task under time
The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $90,000-$100,000 dependent on experience & market conditions.
Job Closing Date: 07/10/2023
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