The Telegraph, Art Director, Marketing

The Role

We are looking for an experienced and highly creative Art Director to lead the Marketing Design team at The Telegraph, to provide the creative vision for our marketing across all channels print and digital. Reporting to the Deputy Creative Director and working closely with the Creative Director to define our marketing approach and develop our marketing visual language.

Working alongside a multi-disciplinary team of marketeers, editorial specialists, data analysts, CRM specialists and other design areas, the Marketing Design team has a fundamental role to play in helping The Telegraph continuously engage its existing readership, grow its audience, and achieve its subscription targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the art direction for all Telegraph marketing, ensuring The Telegraph is powerfully projected across all digital and print campaigns
• Think strategically on how the teams projects are supporting broader business aims, clearly articulating your ideas and creative thinking to give direction to the team
• Develop a clear understanding of the brand and be engrossed in everything it does – becoming a brand guardian
• Championing growth within the team, providing timely and relevant feedback so they understand how and why design decisions are made
• Work hand-in-hand with the lead copywriter and more senior members of the team to make consistently compelling work across editorial, acquisitions, retention (engagement and winback), partnerships, events and rewards.
• Building relationships with key stakeholders from across different areas of the business to prioritise work and make sure projects are delivered on time

Benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and equal parental pay (six months fully paid for mothers and fathers), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

We want you to feel you belong here and welcome candidates from all backgrounds. Our organisation is on a continuous journey to achieve this sense of belonging, with focused inclusion policies, training, and internal networks. We believe it’s not only the right thing to do but that there’s a strong business case to support it. Because if you feel you belong, you’ll feel more comfortable, so you’ll be more likely to achieve your best.

We have a number of internal networks that are totally inclusive and open for anyone to join. These include internal inclusion networks covering employees from ethnic minority backgrounds, working families, LGBTQ+, disabilities and long-term conditions, gender, wellbeing, and women in tech.

Your wellbeing is paramount, so we have trained over 100 Mental Health First Aiders in the last two years to help support our employees. We’ve also signed the Tech Talent Charter, and are committed to driving greater inclusion and diversity in tech.