Digital Designer (FTC)

Package Description

Job Reference: 24078

Band: C

Job Type: Fixed Term Contract (6 months)

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 + London Weighting (£5,319) depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location: Office Base is London, Television Centre. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

About Bbc Studios

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.

We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III.

The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena.

From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.

About Storyworks

BBC StoryWorks is the branded content studio of BBC Studios. Building on our century-long pedigree as the worlds most trusted storytellers, we work with brands to create beautifully crafted stories that move and inspire curious minds, across platforms and across the globe.

At StoryWorks, we tell brand stories in a uniquely BBC way through multi-platform content spanning film, digital, audio, social and experiential. Working with teams around the world, we craft brand stories that live on BBC’s ecosystem and beyond, reaching BBC’s huge and influential global audience on bbc.com, BBC News (TV) and across our social channels.

THE ROLE

Responsibilities

• Produce distinctive visual commercial content for a variety of digital platforms
• Work effectively with other BBC Studios departments, ensuring you maintain excellent relationships throughout with our global stakeholders
• Ensure the commercial content created is appropriate, thoughtful and reflects our diverse global audiences, and is in keeping with BBC branded content policy
• Utilise your design expertise and creative solutions to enrich and engage the target audience, supporting the marketing objectives and client KPIs
• Be accountable for the usability and accessibility of design deliveries for the broadest possible cross-section of users in line with overarching guidelines
• Present branded content concepts and creative work to internal stakeholders and external where required, justifying design decisions with a diverse range of creative and non-creative people, collaborating successfully
• Be accountable for commercial campaign deadlines specified by stakeholders or manager
• Keep pace with emerging industry trends and technology developments, with particular focus on the branded content landscape
• Work collaboratively as one central global design team to share new ideas and keep across commercial campaign outputs
  
  

WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA;

• A passion for and a great understanding of the area of commercial branded content and distribution as it relates to design.
• An experienced Adobe Creative Suite User and Figma.
• Portfolio evidence of excellent design work demonstrating creative flair (a portfolio/link to a portfolio must be included at time of application to be considered for this role)
• Able to talk through your design decisions with a diverse range of people; evidence of successfully collaborating and sharing your ideas.
• Strong experience working within an agency/media owner environment.
  
  

DESIRABLE CRITERIA;

• Understanding of the importance of the BBC's values in accuracy and impartiality.
• Able to deliver different approaches and design styles.
• Keep pace with latest design trends and technology developments.
  
  

LIFE AT BBC STUDIOS

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here .

The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background. More information on our D&I plan can be found here .

BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here .

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM WORKING AT BBC STUDIOS?

• We offer a competitive salary package
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more
• Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation
  
  

NEXT STEPS

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.