Junior Web Designer (6 Month Contract)

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About DK:

DK publishes award-winning, bestselling and visually stunning books, apps and ebooks for adults and children. From travel guides and activity books, through to food, history, film and more, DK makes ideas come to life. As part of a truly global business, you’ll be working with colleagues in New York, Delhi, Toronto, Munich and Melbourne and day-to-day across the DK Marketing and Publicity team in the UK.

Your challenge:

DK is looking for a Web Designer to support the Marketing team in the delivery of our digital marketing materials.

Your Profile:

This design-led role requires a technically-minded individual who demonstrates a high standard of creativity.

You should be organised, proactive and keen to learn and share new design and digital developments with your marketing colleagues.

Tasks:

- Design and build HTML newsletter using our archive of templates

- Work within our email client Adestra to manage newsletter campaigns - seeing the process through from initial send to final reporting

- Design static web banners for use on the DK.com website

- Produce design assets to be used across minisites and 3rd party websites including static banners and pdfs

- Design display adverts for marketing campaigns implementing simple animation and exporting as gifs

Experience required:

- Educated to degree level or equivalent in design and/or a digital media discipline

- Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, HTML, CSS, and Dreamweaver; InDesign and Illustrator beneficial but not essential

- Ability to learn new software and technologies

- Ability to work under pressure, on several projects at one time

- Working within brand guidelines for both DK and licensors

- Awareness of design across various platforms eg tablets/smart phones

To apply for this position, please click the APPLY button below.

Closing date for applications: 20th September 2015.

DK is a Penguin Random House company. Penguin Random House believes in equality of opportunity and employs people solely on the basis of their abilities.