Senior Designer

Salary: $70,000
Location: New York
Department: Content 
Reporting to: Design Director, North America & UK

Time Out is looking for a brilliant, über-creative and collaborative senior designer to join our growing design department and help us make our digital output stand out from the pack. The role is based in New York, but will work on our editorial and social design output for our key cities in North America (Miami, Boston, Chicago, Montreal, LA and NYC). Our approach to design is fun, creative, inspiring and irreverent, and the work we do plays a key role in defining the Time Out brand globally. We don’t take ourselves too seriously but we do create seriously good work.

You are a self starter, with a meticulous eye for detail and versatile in your skillset. You are keen to get stuck into a multitude of projects and will be able to manage your time to prioritise tasks. You’ll have great instincts and will consistently come up with cool, clever and fun design executions that are lightning-fast, while also respecting wider brand guidelines and needs. A passion for and understanding of some of the areas Time Out loves and celebrates – culture, music, food, drink, city living and travel – is essential for being able to fully contribute to the team. All the standard software basics apply – InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator (After Effects is a strong plus). You’ll be an excellent communicator and collaborator.

As well as being a natural team player, you will also have experience of art directing shoots and be able to organise and lead people. You’ll have the confidence, tenacity and overall presence to command respect on a set and won’t think twice about putting a maverick PR or stylist in their place if you need to. In a nice way of course. Pinpoint precision and stopping at nothing to get the cover shot is an absolute must. Overall though you’ll be a collaborative, kind, can-do creative, who will leave their ego at the door, roll their sleeves up and get stuck in to help the team consistently create amazing work.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the social team and editors to create slick, fun and engaging designs for our social channels that will maximize Time Out’s reach and engagement
• Work with the social and video team to create motion graphics and animation work
• Create quick online assets to support news stories and features on the various US Time Out city websites.
• Work closely with the design director and photo editor to organise and execute photoshoots and bring mind-blowing ideas to life.
• Regularly commission illustrators (strong and evolving knowledge of who are the best in the business is vital for this)
• Regularly help out editors by sourcing and selecting engaging stock photography that will bring their stories to life

Experience

• 5 years+ working in an editorial design department
• Experience creating assets for social is essential
  
• Experience working on photoshoots and working with photographers, stylists etc
• Animation and motion graphic skills would be nice
• A basic knowledge of editing video is a bonus
• Knowledge of photographers in other US cities also helpful
  

What we look for in a candidate

Time Out is a company filled with individuals as diverse as the cities we live in and cover. At the same time there are common characteristics and values we all share. To join our team, you’ll want to… 

Be commercially astute

Either have experience at or want to dive headfirst into a fast-paced transformative company in pursuit of excellence

Think globally

Have excellent communication and relationship building skills

Have a high sense of ownership, urgency and drive

Be a team player

About our culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.


About Time Out Group plc

Time Out Group is a global media and hospitality business that inspires and enables people to explore and enjoy the best of the city.

It all began in London in 1968 when Time Out helped people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the capital. Since then, this iconic brand has consistently maintained its status as the go-to source of inspiration for both locals and visitors alike.

Time Out Group has been named one of the Most Innovative Companies for 2020 by Fast Company - this prestigious annual list honours the businesses making the most profound impact on both industry and culture, showcasing a variety of ways to thrive in today’s fast-changing world. The Group comprises two highly synergistic business divisions: Time Out Media and Time Out Market.

Time Out Media’s digital and physical media proposition comprises websites, mobile, social media, print and live events. Across these platforms, Time Out distributes its high-quality content – written and curated by local expert journalists – around the best food, drinks, culture, art, music, theatre, travel and entertainment in 328 cities and 58 countries. The Company is monetising this global reach and its strong traffic from a desirable audience via digital and print advertising as well as e-commerce. Since its launch 50 years ago, Time Out has become a global brand that advertisers and consumers love and trust.

Time Out Market is a food and cultural market leveraging the Time Out brand to bring the best of the city under one roof: its best chefs, drinks and cultural experiences – based on the editorial curation Time Out has always been known for. The world’s first food and cultural market experience based wholly on editorial curation, Time Out Market captures decades of local knowledge, independent reviews and expert opinions. Everything that is being offered in Time Out Market must have been reviewed with four or five stars, and not one star less, by independent Time Out journalists.

The first Time Out Market opened in Lisbon in 2014 and is now Portugal’s most popular attraction with 4.1 million visitors in 2019. Following this success, four new Time Out Markets opened in North America in 2019 in New York, Boston, Montréal and Chicago, and we recently celebrated the opening of Time Out Market Dubai in April 2021. A further pipeline of other global locations includes Porto, Barcelona,Prague, Abu Dhabi, Cape Town and London.

Time Out is a dynamic, pioneering brand and so is our team. We want to work with the best and brightest talent because we work for the world’s greatest cities, the people enjoying them and the businesses in them. As a truly global team we get to collaborate with colleagues from New York to Paris, Tokyo and Sydney and beyond. It’s our integrity, passion, curiosity, creativity and openness that make us successful and a unique team.