Commercial Art Director (Maternity Cover)

At Hearst UK, there’s always more to the story. Join us as our new Commercial Art Director to start the next chapter in your career.

We’re the UK’s leading premium publisher, and the people behind iconic media brands such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and Country Living. We’ve created a working environment that encourages everyone to pull together. We never stop looking for brave new ideas. We’ll always try to develop and improve, we trust each other to do our best, and we have fun as we build on our heritage to make history.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As Commercial Art Director you will be responsible for the creative output of the commercial art team, ensuring content quality and maintaining standards of excellence throughout. This a management role that will require you to lead a creative team on commercial branded content projects across all our Hearst titles, art directing stills and video shoots as well as being responsible for working on design and visuals across all products.

The responsibilities of the Art Director include interpreting client briefs and turning them into creative solutions that seamlessly integrate the Hearst Brands and deliver on client KPIs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee, and be the main point of contact for the visual art direction across all commercial campaigns.
• Art direction and design of visuals across all products that work to the house style of each Hearst brand to drive home its unique positioning in the mind of the consumer.
• Provide constructive feedback to team members, ensuring their work is on-brand, and development opportunities are maximised.
• Maintain and grow your pool of talent and crew, from photographers, illustrators, set designers to stylists. Ensuring that they are in line with our brand aesthetics, building relationships along the way.
• Work closely with the Production and Subs Hub to ensure a seamless print design process that works to deadline, runs efficiently, and minimises hiccups – from early-stage planning, right through to finalising pages and helping send the magazine layouts to press.
• Commissioning photography and illustration across all brands and platforms.
• Lead the creative direction on all commercial stills and video shoots by creating moodboards/ treatments that clearly online the vision of the campaign for our external clients and internal teams.
• Extensive knowledge in shoot production by working closely with the Producers to coordinate and plan shoots.
• Attend shoot days, enacting your creative vision for the shoot, working with the crew and clients to make sure everything is captured and aligns to the brief.
• Take in amends from clients and have the design knowledge to implement them whilst keeping true to Hearst brands.
• Fostering a collaborative relationship and liaising with editorial teams. Keeping abreast of the distinct visual language as well as design of each magazine and reflecting that style within branded content campaigns.
• Deliver creativity that also drives results as it resonates so clearly with the audience.
• Liaising and collaborating with internal departments and external clients on commercial projects across all brands. Be client facing, representing Hearst at shoots where clients are present.
• To be an ambassador of Hearst UK and its values.

ABOUT YOU

• The right candidate will thrive in a busy workplace and will be happy to work autonomously, having end-to-end ownership of projects from initial concept to sign-off.
• You must be ambitious and able to multi-task whilst juggling many projects, live dates and managing the expectations of all internal and external stakeholders.
• An innovator with a passion to deliver new, interesting, and well-considered creative solutions to expectant clients.
• Attention to detail and consistency, with a proven experience working completely independently and using initiative.
• Flexible, agile, and quick thinking and highly solution driven.
• Ability to prioritise, delegate work and motivate and manage a team.
• It is essential you are a team player and a strong communicator, able to problem solve with minimal information or guidance, collaborate with delivery teams, and take direction from senior stakeholders.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Hearst UK, you can choose from a huge range of perks and benefits that can help you learn well, work well and live well including:

• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy up to 5 additional holiday days)
• Hybrid working – Three days per week in the office.
• Discounted gym membership
• Healthcare cash plan
• Spend a charity day with your favourite good cause
• Life assurance and pension scheme
• Regular socials and more!

There’s more to your story than you imagine. And the next chapter begins right here.

Hearst UK is deeply committed to using our influential brands to reflect the world we want to live in – one that respects, protects, represents and uplifts the voices and opinions of all people. As a business, we recognise the significant benefits of creativity, collaboration and innovation that comes with diverse teams. Not only is diversifying the voices in our organization the right thing to do, but it also helps us to make