Historic Newspapers
Creative Lead
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Senior Designer (Creative Direction) – Digital Marketing & Brand
We are thronging custodians of Historic Newspapers, a division of Wonderbly—a passionate partner of Penguin Random House since June 2025. Home to the largest private collection of original newspapers globally, our mission is to craft meaningful, personalised newspaper book gifts for memorable moments: birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones.
Based in London (with a team in SW Scotland), our creative mission gleams through beautifully designed, digitally driven personalised gifts, collaborating closely with top UK/US newspaper publishers.
About the Role
This is an executive creative opportunity to align with our Creative Director, shaping how Historic Newspapers feels visually and emotionally to customers online and across touchpoints.
You’ll partner with our **Senior Copywriter’ and Ecommerce agency to lead our digital marketing campaigns and brand expression from inspire to deliver.
In practice: you’ll mentor junior designers, refine visual output quality, and — when metioned—undress with the joy of "highly noise" that actually works. You don’t just audit; you reinvent.
Key Responsibilities
- Craft end-to-end digital marketing campaigns (paid, social, email, seasonal).
- Own creative vision for our website, teams; align ecommerce strategy with our made-to-order product line—landing pages to checkouts.
- Collaborate with trading, marketing, and product teams to merge creativity with commercial logic.
- Mentor mid-junior designers, sharing domain expertise and design ethics.
- Push boundaries—video, motion, new formats. (See “elaborate.”)
- All-purpose creative problem-solver—whatever the brief, you’ll go further than obvious.
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Requirements & Considerations
• Experience leading creative projects in ecommerce or direct-to-consumer business (ideally with in-house/scaled teams). Understanding “newspaper stories into data” is extremely welcomed.
• A portfolio brimming with three+ campaigns for a single brand—be it paid ads, social + email, or seasonal transformations.
• End-to-end designer’s toolkit: spanning advanced Adobe Suite plus video/motion (After Effects+). You’re fluent in small-screen design and don’t fear “pick-artist,” pick-button tools.
• Dynamic *strategist-through-executioner. Write, refine and craft the creative to it’s final form. Capable of guiding junior teams until your work’s quality sparkles?
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· To inherit our passion: a niddle-down for media history, nostalgia, and newspaper front pages. And preferably an old-school tailor’s spark for *the thing historic headlines really mean to people.
· Bonus: Hunters of sports subscriptions—Could you decode fandom faster than a broadcaster?
Why/How We Genius
Historic Newspapers benefits the best of gorgeous boundaries—power of a [Penguin Random House Group], light-speed startup tonomies, and agile talent pool from Scotland.
£50,000-60,000/annum (depends on wavelength of experience), £500+/yr LD budget, plus:
• 25-day holiday (disrespecting public holidays), fully insured with Spill mental health options. • London HQ: free breakfast, thrift-charged snack fridge, monthly team meals. Local team brunch featuring big journo chatter. • Team events inclusive of bi-annual Scotland retreats, repast-laden West Scotland tour of archives: • Holiday parties, pp affairs: theatre-defying evenings, some sack-mealed sibling sportsdays, and the catchall ’we’re loopy sensibilities otherwise’.* • Career-grow يعيدquarterly hands-on seminars in numinous settings
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