Senior Designer

Who Are We? 

Are Media is Australia’s leading omnichannel content company for women. Every day we influence, inform, inspire, and connect with 6 in 10 Australian women across magazine media, digital, video, social, e-commerce, customer review sites, podcasts, events and experiences.  Our brands include The Australian Women’s Weekly, Better Homes & Gardens, Woman’s Day, marie claire, TV WEEK, New Idea, Now to Love, Australian Gourmet Traveller, BEAUTY/crew and ELLE. Through our Change AREgenda we drive meaningful and positive change for women.

Are Media employs Australia’s best content creation talent and we are proud that our greatest strength is our people. 

Why Are Media?   

Join Australia’s leading content company for women and be part of an inspiring, creative and collaborative team. We offer excellent people programs including:

• A day of leave for your birthday,
• 4 days of volunteering leave each year,
• An inclusive parental leave program that supports all parents, families & carers,
• FREE digital access to all our titles, and
• Our unique Are Media Learning Academy (Digital Academy, Lunch N Learns, Mentoring and much more).    

You’re welcome in the office every day, but you have the option to work from home one day a week.

About the role

Are Media’s Content & Creative Studio sits within the Commercial Product & Strategy team, working with some of the biggest magazine brands in the country including Gourmet Traveller, marie claire, Who, House & Garden, BELLE, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Country Style and Home Beautiful.

We are currently looking for a talented designer to join our Content & Creative team. You will be able to clearly articulate a vision from mock to executed design with endless ideas and innovative ways to approach content creation. Your attention to detail will be second to none and your creative vision will be rich and diverse. Reporting into a Creative Lead you will be a team player, working alongside other art directors and designers to bring trade and other commercial content to life.

Your primary focus will be our trade and corporate branding work and direction, helping to cement and promote our powerful connection with Australian women. When you’re not working on these briefs, you’ll be helping the creative team with other commercial work briefed into the studio.

You are very comfortable working on one project for weeks at a time but you don’t mind jumping in to help on another urgent shoot or project if required. You’re positive and enthusiastic, and eager to learn. Your work will come to life across print, video and social assets as well as visual stories, event collateral, decks and EDMs. You’ll have a keen eye for detail and innovative ways to amplify our message through beautiful design.

You’ll be well supported by a talented team of creatives who will be able to help you shine in this role.

Duties

• Responsible for the delivery of design work in response to briefs from the Trade Marketing Manager and Studio Operations Manager.
• Brand custodian - Responsible for the management of the Are Media asset library, consistent roll-out of Are Media branding across executions
• Collaboration and ideation with your fellow team members and the Creative Director
• Directing photo shoots on occasion
• Briefing photographers and videographers and event managers for event design,
• Storyboarding capabilities/experience for videos and sizzle reels – sourcing references, creative treatment, ideas for animation and treatment
• Creating finished artwork from mock to print ready

Skills and experience

• Candidates will need design qualifications and demonstrated experience in a media, environment.
• A portfolio showing a range of high end premium work across categories like food, interiors, fashion, beauty and branding
• Outstanding InDesign and Photoshop abilities
• Outstanding visual referencing capabilities
• Motion graphics capabilities an added bonus
• Storyboarding capabilities/experience for videos – sourcing references, creative treatment, ideas for animation

Are Media is committed to a diverse, respectful, collaborative & inclusive workplace. We know & value the success this brings for everyone and we welcome & encourage applications from diverse backgrounds.  When you apply, please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.