Designer

Oxford University Press; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job description

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.

The Academic division is a world leader in the publishing of books, journals, and online services in a wide range of academic and professional disciplines, as well as reference works, textbooks, and books for the general reader.

The Academic Design Department, within the Design & Media team, is responsible for managing and developing strong and effective designs for print products, marketing, and branding.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a talented, creative, and motivated individual to join our team. Reporting to a Design Manager, you will use your design skills to produce high quality book cover designs for a wide range of our non-fiction hardback and paperback books. There will also be the opportunity to create marketing materials and contribute to design concepts for other group projects, including branding and digital. You will work collaboratively with the design team and other functions, including Editorial, Production, and Marketing.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

The successful candidate will be a creative thinker with a passion for publishing and able to demonstrate high quality book cover design in their portfolio. We welcome applications from candidates who haven’t yet had the opportunity to work in publishing, but anticipate that your portfolio will showcase your interest and skills in book cover design through student work and/or self-directed projects. You should possess strong organizational and communication skills as well as the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team. Strong typography and layout skills are essential, as is the ability to manage many projects at the same time to deadlines. You will be fully proficient in the use of Adobe Creative Cloud applications. You can adapt your design style to suit different audiences and genres.

The ideal candidate will have:

1. A degree-level qualification (or equivalent) in Graphic Design, preferably with a specialism in Typography
2. Good knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat)
3. Good knowledge of Microsoft Office software within a MAC environment
4. Good understanding and experience of the publishing process and production techniques
5. Experience of producing high quality design for print
6. Good communication skills and the ability to work well within a team
7. Ability to manage busy workload and work efficiently to strict deadlines
8. A high level of attention to detail and self-motivation

Please include a link to your online portfolio with your application (or attach examples of your work).

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Please note this advert may be removed before the advertised end date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.