Junior/Midweight Graphic Designer – Sun Video

Junior/Midweight Graphic Designer – Sun Video

Location: London Bridge

Company Overview: An iconic, dynamic storyteller with a rich heritage and a global audience in the millions, The Sun is now focusing on an exciting, video-focused strategy to engage new audiences, putting video at the heart of The Sun’s journalism.

This is your chance to join a talented team at a pivotal moment, contributing to fast-paced, agenda-setting video output that drives traffic and revenue, as we redefine how a historic brand tells stories in the fast-moving digital world.

Your Role: As a Graphic Designer in Sun Originals, you will play a key role in crafting eye-catching, high-quality thumbnails and supporting digital assets for our sport, showbiz, and Fabulous content strands. You will work closely with video producers, commissioning editors, and the social team to ensure our formats stand out, drive clicks, and engage audiences across YouTube and other digital platforms.

This is an opportunity for a creative and detail-oriented designer who can work quickly and bring fresh ideas to our visual storytelling.

Day to Day You Will:

• Thumbnail Design: Create bold, engaging thumbnails that grab attention, encourage clicks, and reflect the tone of the content.
• Format branding: Create original branding for our formats, rolling out the look and feel across supporting digital assets for use across our video formats, social media, and YouTube platforms.
• Brand Consistency: Apply existing brand guidelines while developing creative ideas that work across multiple formats and audiences.
• Collaboration: Work closely with video teams to understand the editorial vision and ensure assets complement and elevate the final output.
• Efficiency: Deliver high-quality designs quickly in a fast-paced newsroom environment.

What We’re Looking For From You:

• Creative Eye: Strong visual design skills, particularly in layout, typography, and colour for digital platforms.
• Software Skills: Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (experience with other Adobe Creative Cloud tools is a plus).
• Digital Understanding: Knowledge of how audiences engage with content on YouTube, social media, and other digital platforms.
• Organised & Flexible: Able to juggle multiple projects and adapt to changing priorities.
• Team Player: Comfortable working collaboratively with editorial, social, and production teams.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Access to exclusive events Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].