Visual Story Designer, The Guardian
2-3 days a week in office
International online news and media company
Job no longer available
International online news and media company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To promote and sustain liberal journalism in perpetuity.
Role
Who you are
- Wireframing and experience in full-page digital page layout is essential
- A flare for visual storytelling
- Experience with responsive design, progressive enhancement, accessibility
- Proven graphic and web design experience within a newsroom or journalistic publication (essential); interactive design experience is also highly desirable
- Experience in UX and UI and how it can enhance the reader experience
- Experience in data visualisation and design theory
What the job involves
- Work with reporters and editors to come up with innovative visual treatments and styling for news stories that have a graphics/interactive/spatial focus, for anything from breaking news through to longer-term investigative projects
- Contribute ideas to how stories can be told in new ways, designing compelling and immersive experiences of our journalism on mobile screens
- Work with illustrators, other designers, visual editors and graphic artists to design around news graphics, creating styles and page layouts that easily house charts and maps
- Mock up visual treatments for interactive graphics such as election results or cabinet reshuffles, and design around data visualisation to different breakpoints
- Design layouts, styles and contribute ideas about how to structure stories, in keeping with the Guardian's editorial voice
Salary benchmarks
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous pension scheme; if you contribute 5% then the Guardian will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age)
- Dental scheme
- 30 days annual leave and the option to purchase an extra 5 days
- Up to 18 weeks of parental leave at full pay
- Multi-faith prayer room
- Cycle to work scheme and subsidised gym membership
- Paid volunteering days
- Annual season ticket loan
Our take
The Guardian is part of the Guardian News & Media (GNM). Since launching its US and Australia digital editions in 2011 and 2013 respectively, traffic from outside of the UK now represents over two-thirds of the Guardian's total digital audience. In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821, and the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer. It competes with other media such as News International, Daily Mail and The Telegraph.
The Guardian is renowned for its agenda-setting journalism. It achieved record digital traffic with the highest number of regular readers and has now over a million digital subscribers. The company has seen a surge of 87% in subscriptions over the last three years.
The Editor-in-chief said it remained committed to keeping the Guardian free-to-read and not following the paywall model adopted by many rivals. Instead, it will concentrate on the Guardian’s digital growth and focus on its reader revenue model.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle