Design Graduate Programme 2021

Do you want to join the Design department within one of the world’s best news organisations?

The Telegraph is recruiting BA and MA Design graduates who want to be part of our brilliant team, starting in January 2022.

Presenting a unique chance to join one of UK’s most reputable design departments, the successful candidate will gain experience in three of our six design disciplines throughout the 2 year programme, working closely with the teams responsible for The Telegraph’s print and digital platforms.

Our Teams

Newsprint Design

The newsprint design team creates compelling page layouts that help tell our stories. Situated at the heart of the newsroom, you’ll work with editors across a range of desks, from news and sport to food and gardening. From designing the front page of the newspaper to commissioning illustrations or debating which picture is the most compelling, you’ll need to respond to all the challenges the world throws at you.

Graphic Journalism

Graphic journalists communicate complex narratives and information in simple, accessible, and engaging visuals. Your projects will vary greatly, depending on the content or concept at hand, whether that’s creating a series of icons for topics in a story or composing vast data sets into meaningful information graphics.

Magazines

Our award-winning magazines feature the latest in fashion, lifestyle, luxury, culture, and current affairs. The design team provides creative suggestions for photographic and illustrative commissions and supports the art desk to ensure The Telegraph’s content is powerfully projected online. You’ll collaborate with picture editors, researchers, stylists, and sub-editors to further bolster our magazines’ success.

Emerging Formats

Dubbed ‘the experimental room’, the emerging formats team works on daily animations and illustrations for Snapchat, The Telegraph’s website and app, weekly print columns, mini film series and ad campaigns for our new audiences.

Marketing and Brand Design

The marketing and brand design team is The Telegraph’s in-house creative studio, and its mission is to promote our commercial products. Whenever we engage with our customers, the design team’s task is to guarantee that the message is efficient, relevant, and on-brand. You’ll meet this challenge by designing creative marketing materials that draw the attention of our audience to the vast range of services and products we offer.

Product Design

The digital product design team is a multidisciplinary entity of designers, developers and researchers working on products used every day by millions of people. Experimentation and learning are at the core of the product design team. As technology transforms the publishing industry, you’ll strive for consistency, quality, and integrity of user experience across all you do.

Essential skills required for the role

• Art school/University background in a Design related subject (BA or MA level)
• A passion for all things design with a keen eye on current design trends
• Be interested in current affairs and have a passion for telling stories
• Have an appetite for experimentation and a good sense of fun
• Please note that this scheme is not open to established design professionals

Applications for the programme will close at 10:00pm on Sunday 31st July, 2021. Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications after this date.

Please apply with your CV, a cover letter explaining why you would like to work for The Telegraph, and include links to three pieces of design work you want us to see.

First-round interviews will be conducted in August. The successful candidates will join the team in January, 2022.

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.The Telegraph’s goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives, and backgrounds.

We are an equal opportunities employer, hiring solely on merit and business need. We encourage applications regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, and disability. If you require reasonable adjustments in any recruitment process with us, please make us aware.