Junior Art Director, Financial Times
FT Studio, 9-Month Fixed Term Contract
2+ days a week in office
Global business publication
Be an early applicant
Global business publication
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
The FT has an uncompromising mission: delivering independent, quality information, news and services to individuals and companies around the globe. It’s the cornerstone of our reputation and the heart of our ambitions for the future.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent typography, graphic design
- Digital experience is preferable but not a necessity
- Ability to make compelling creative recommendations
- Ability to work collaboratively and with a team-oriented approach
- Strong organisational skills – able to juggle multiple complex tasks, work independently and in a team
- Understanding of Luxury and current trends
- Ability to take creative approach to B2B subjects and offer a new perspective
- An appreciation of, interest in and hunger to deliver best-in-class creative - helping to push creative standards and techniques
What the job involves
- FT Studio is an in-house creative team that produces partner content for the FT across Luxury and B2B
- FT Studio produces a range of market-leading editorial and client-brand content - from interactive digital websites, and animations to mini-documentaries, print and social
- The Junior Art Director will work in a collaborative, trusted and experimental environment and is pivotal in supporting FT Studio’s creative department, ensuring we deliver world-class content in all areas
- The creative will work across multiple formats and industries, with a focus on luxury - and should become comfortable with art direction, concept/creativity, and a keen eye for typography and editorial design
- Deliver art direction support across digital, video and animation to the highest quality, supporting the Senior Art Directors and wider team
- Hands-on with design and typography across campaigns
- Presenting to team members
- Translate complicated subject matters into compelling and engaging visual storytelling
- Ensure the client brief is at the heart of all solutions - not just meeting but exceeding client expectations
- Maintain and develop our creative craft and excellence in delivery
- Work closely with the Senior Art Directors and collaborate with other creatives, producers and writers to bring projects to a conclusion
- Be ideas first, and a lover of storytelling
Application process
- Application Closing Date: 18th September 2024, 5pm BST
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1888, the FT has grown into one of the world's biggest online and broadsheet economics and business news providers. It has a strong focus on financial journalism and economic analysis, and provides this essential analysis to companies and individuals across the world.
As well as economics and business, the FT also offers sections on opinion, life and arts, how to spend, and more. In 2022, six of its writers won awards in science, data and investment categories, illustrating the breadth and quality of the FT’s journalism.
The company adapts well to changes in the market to maintain its readership. For example, it recently launched a digital hub and weekly newsletter called Cryptofinance to shine a light on the digital asset industry and how innovations are rippling into mainstream finance.
The FT Group employs more than 2300 people worldwide, including 700 journalists in 40 countries. It includes the FT, FT Specialist, and a number of services and joint ventures. FT's focus on providing impartial, high-quality content has gained it a record-paying readership of over a million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions.
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52% female employees
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
- Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
- Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
- Pension contribution
- Local health coverage plans
- Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
- Financial wellbeing products and services
Company values
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Integrity
- Trust
- Inclusion
- Subscriber focus
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
John Ridding
(CEO)After studying for a degree in PPE at Oxford, John worked as Chairman of Pearson Asia, as well as editor of the FT in Asia. In 2006, he was appointed CEO of the FT Group.
Roula Khalaf
(Editor)Following a degree at Columbia University and four years at Forbes, Khalaf joined the FT in 1995 as Associate Editor and Middle East Editor. Since January 2020, she has served as Editor.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Financial Times
Yasir Mirza (Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion)
- D&I annual report
- Reporting pay gaps
- Next generation board
- Employee networks, including Proud FT, FT Embrace, FT Women, FT Families, FT Sustainability, FT Mental Health and FT Access,
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