Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary

About the Role
Historic Newspapers, part of Wonderbly and Penguin Random House since June 2025, is the proud custodian of the world’s largest collection of privately owned original newspapers. We create distinctive personalised Newspaper Book products that celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and special dates, working with leading newspaper publishers across the UK and US. With headquarters in London and additional offices in South West Scotland, we are driven by a mission to connect people with their passions through beautifully crafted books.

We are seeking a highly creative Senior Digital Designer who thrives on bringing brands to life online. This hands-on role involves designing engaging website banners, eye-catching social media content, and compelling marketing campaigns across multiple digital channels. You will play a key role in introducing animation and video throughout our website to create a richer, more immersive customer experience that reflects the quality of our products.

The ideal candidate will have experience working in-house for a premium ecommerce brand, balancing strong visual design with commercial thinking. You will understand how creative work drives engagement, strengthens brand identity, and improves conversion.

Key responsibilities include designing digital experiences such as website banners, landing pages, promotional assets, and other digital content that bring our brand to life and drive customer engagement and conversion. You will own the visual experience across our website by collaborating closely with our ecommerce agency to create inspiring homepage features, campaign pages, and product merchandising that reflect our premium brand and support commercial objectives.

You will create impactful marketing campaigns by designing creative assets for paid social, email marketing, display advertising, and organic social channels, ensuring a consistent and compelling brand presence across every touchpoint. Bringing motion into the brand through animation, video, and other dynamic content will be a key part of enhancing the customer experience across our website, social media, and digital marketing.

Collaboration is essential, working closely with marketing, ecommerce, trading, and product teams to translate ideas into high-quality creative that supports business goals. You will champion exceptional design standards by helping to evolve our digital brand, contributing fresh ideas, keeping up with emerging design trends, and ensuring every piece of creative reflects the quality of our products.

Supporting and inspiring the wider creative team by sharing ideas, offering constructive feedback, and collaborating with designers to maintain consistently high creative standards is also expected. You will embrace creative variety by engaging in everything from product launches and seasonal campaigns to new digital initiatives and one-off creative projects, bringing enthusiasm and attention to detail to every brief.

Experience
Proven experience in a digital design role within an ecommerce or direct-to-consumer business. Ideally, experience working in-house for a premium consumer brand with an understanding of the pace and priorities of a busy ecommerce environment.
A strong portfolio showcasing digital design across websites, email marketing, paid advertising, and social media, demonstrating how you have helped shape and evolve a brand’s digital presence over time.
Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Experience with After Effects, Premiere Pro, or similar tools for animation and video creation is highly desirable.
Experience creating motion graphics, animation, and video for websites and social media, with an understanding of how dynamic content enhances the customer journey.
A solid understanding of ecommerce best practices, including designing for different devices, creating responsive digital assets, and producing creative that balances brand storytelling with commercial performance.

About you
Excellent visual design skills with a keen eye for typography, layout, colour, and user experience.
Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
A collaborative approach with confidence to work closely with marketing, ecommerce, and product teams, sharing ideas and constructive feedback.
Genuine enthusiasm for our brand, excited by the power of nostalgia, the history of the press, and the stories behind the headlines, with a desire to bring those stories to life through exceptional digital design.
An interest in or passion for sport is a real advantage, as sport is one of our largest and fastest growing categories. Understanding what makes moments memorable for fans will help you create engaging and authentic creative.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications in digital design or related fields are advantageous but not essential. A strong portfolio and demonstrable skills are the key requirements.