Job Description
Location: Daily Mail Headquarters – London
Position: Permanent/Full Time/Hybrid – 4 days per week in the office
About the role
The Daily Mail is looking for a candidate to produce visually compelling graphics for digital and print as a member of our in-house creative team.
On a day-to-day basis you will be responsible for conceptualising, developing and executing designs, collaborating with reporters and section heads from across the title’s departments to enhance our award-winning journalism and engage our loyal readers.
There will also be opportunities to design ambitious interactive and immersive stories under the Mail’s DEEP DIVE arm.
Person Specification
- Experience in designing graphics and/or visual storytelling, ideally in the news publishing world
- Have strong design skills and ideally highly proficient with Adobe Creative Suite
- An understanding of UX and UI and how this ranges from desktop to mobile. As well as how those designs can be adapted for print
- An understanding of motion graphics
- Basic knowledge of front-end languages (HTML & CSS)
- Some experience of manipulating large data sets on Excel, which can be plugged into data visualisation tools such as Datawrapper and Flourish
- Confidence to pitch ideas and constantly thinking about how we can evolve our product
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Excellent communication skills
- Have a passion for telling stories and knowledge of the news agenda
About dmg::media
dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The Mail brand reaches one in two Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country.
*Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, Metro.co.uk, i and inews.co.uk reach more than 10.1m people daily in the UK.*Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 190M unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.
**Our newsbrands maintain an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most to our readers, ensuring that we remain experts at delivering relevant and insightful content. In October, the Mail became the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 7- million followers.
*PAMCo H2 2023 **GA 2023 September
Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.
