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Join the DK Licensing team and immerse yourself in the world of globally acclaimed and bestselling titles that bring popular culture to life.
Through our collaborations with prominent licensors including Lucasfilm, LEGO, Marvel Comics, Disney, Warner Bros, Mattel, and esteemed museums such as The Met and The Science Museum, we have the opportunity to craft visually captivating and knowledge-rich books that engage readers on a global scale across our licensed and non-licensed titles.
Reporting to the Art Director, you will be supported and guided by the two Design Managers working across their lists. As our Design Assistant, you'll be providing essential design and admin support, working closely with the designers to learn from the best and creatively grow while assisting with various tasks.
Your role will involve
- Creatively contributing to sales and presentation material for book fairs, launches, and marketing campaigns.
- Creating moodboards, researching illustrators and competition titles, working up Indesign templates, book flatplans, image research, and exploring cover directions
- Be passionate about design and abreast of new trends, and attend and contribute at new idea meetings
- Taking in design changes to cover and spread files and assisting with getting books to print.
- Preparing prelim and endmatter pages, and updating digital products
- Updating book data and sales materials, helping provide up-to-date sales material to the sales and marketing teams
- Attending and helping organise photoshoots
- Supporting the designers with organising and ensuring efficient and well-organised tracking systems across titles.
- Raising purchase orders, offer letters and contract requests, as well as processing payments for individual projects.
- Preparing and uploading book material for approval to licensors
What we're looking for
To succeed in this role, you should be a self-starter who embraces new challenges and learning opportunities. We value resilience and the ability to work under pressure, as well as flexibility and openness to change. As a confident communicator, you'll collaborate effectively with team members, managers, and other departments.
A good mix of strong creative and analytical skills is desired, along with the ability to work well across the design and editorial teams. Time management, organisation skills and attention to detail are essential. Also, having a good working knowledge of the Creative Cloud including, Indesign, PhotoShop and Illustrator.
If you're ready to bring your design skills to DK and help create exceptional titles, we want to hear from you. Please attach a PDF of your best work as well as your CV, and a short covering letter introducing yourself.
What we offer
We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our people, some of which are:
- 25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one, plus bank holidays
- Generous pension scheme
- Volunteering policy and charity matching
- Employee assistance programme
- 60% discount on company books
- Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership
- Flex fridays (1pm Finish*)
- Shopping discounts
- Up to 30 days remote working from abroad
And we plant a tree for every new employee to our business
DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background. DK is proud to announce that we have adopted The Halo Code.
DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working weekly from home and in DK’s office. The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade, but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews or undertaking internships.
*Subject to certain criteria being met.
About our company
We believe in the power of discovery. That's why we create books for everyone that explore ideas and nurture curiosity about the world we live in. From first words to the Big Bang, from the wonders of nature to city adventures, you will find expert knowledge, hours of fun and endless inspiration in the pages of our books.
We are the world's leading illustrated publisher and a member of the Penguin Random House division of Bertelsmann, creating cutting-edge design and stunning visual books for the whole family.
We are passionate about inspiring curiosity and bring people to books through their thirst for knowledge. With a global book loving community of over 800 colleagues in the UK, US, Germany, India, China, Spain and Australia, we produce books in over 100 countries and over 60 languages.
