We’re looking for a Designer to join our London-based Design team, supporting the production and delivery of standout editorial and sponsored content across print and digital. You’ll help shape the visual identity of our titles, ensuring high-quality creative that aligns with our house style and design standards.
In this role, you’ll collaborate across departments to produce editorial designs, data visualisations, animations, social media assets, and podcast creative, contributing to design-led thinking and supporting smooth production workflows.
Purpose of the Job
- Working on the production, and the delivery of all design collateral for editorial and sponsored content.
- This role is central to delivering the visual impact to our editorial products across print and online, whilst maintaining house-style and all design standards across the group titles
- It requires strong creative skills, excellent time management, and a good understanding of design trends, print pre-production, and digital tools.
Responsibilities and duties
- Contribute to design-led thinking across editorial/special projects
- Work collaboratively to develop designs for editorial/special projects
- Working on data visualisations, surveys and data presentations
- Working on animations for social media promotions
- Working on podcasts creative and animations
- Work with the team to develop other aspects of design using creative and production tools old and new
- Work with the Production Team to ensure design deadlines are met
- Communicate regularly and effectively with Production and Special Reports regarding all editorial/sponsored design projects.
- Participate actively in editorial planning and production meetings.
Essential Experience
- Experience in B2B publishing with a financial focus and working with print, digital creative, plus social media would be a benefit
Essential Knowledge/ Skills
- Excellent and advance working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, in particular InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat.
- Advanced knowledge of PremierPro, AfterEffects, Adobe Firefly and Adobe Express.
- Data visualisations and charts creation knowledge would be an advantage
- Use and working knowledge of third-party picture libraries ie. Getty Images and the latest AI tools
Personal Characteristics
- Personable, pro-active and persuasive when pitching creative work.
- Ability to work collaboratively with the other members of the team and other departments.
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Self-motivated and willing to take responsibility.
- Comfortable operating in a professional working environment where regular feedback is provided.
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
- Resilient under pressure with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
- Passionate about innovation, design trends, AI and exploring production efficiencies.
Motivation
- Highly goal-focused and motivated by achieving high personal standards in all aspects of work – ambitious to meet own personal and organisational goals.
- Desire to be part of a dynamic business with high growth expectations.
- Keen to stretch self and develop career at PEI.
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Who we are:
PEI Group is a subscriber-focused business intelligence company. With our multi-talented global team of over 490 people, spread across EMEA, USA & Asia, our purpose is to inform and connect investment professionals across global, specialised markets. We identify specific high growth, high value investment sectors and themes where deep insight, strong market relationships and active capital flows are critical for success.
What we do:
PEI Group provides industry-leading journalism, data, and market insight to subscribing clients via a wide portfolio of specialist brands supported by our robust and scalable digital publishing, analytics, and database platform. We also track the firms and individuals who shape markets and bring client-communities together to enable knowledge sharing, profile building and relationship development through professional networks and events. Wherever our markets are active – in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, London and elsewhere – PEI is hard at work examining crucial market forces and shifting investment themes, identifying active investors and their capital allocations, and scanning ahead for regulatory changes, new compliance requirements and other risk factors.
At PEI we value diverse talent and welcome applications from everyone – regardless of background. We are an equal opportunity employer and our inclusive culture at PEI is reflected in every stage of the recruitment journey. Please inform us at initial stages of the recruitment process if you require any reasonable adjustments and we can accommodate this.
PEI Group supports flexible working arrangements, and we welcome career returners.
