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Graphic Designer - talkSPORT.com
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Graphic Designer, talkSPORT.com
Role: Casual - flexible hours based on team needs and the sporting calendar.
Location: London Bridge (minimum three days a week).
The Team
talkSPORT is the world’s biggest sports radio station and a globally renowned digital publisher, with a social footprint of more than 13M followers.
The talkSPORT.com team spans several departments – including editorial, social, audience and tech – and we’re looking for a new Graphic Designer to work within our social media team, creating visually striking and on-brand imagery around the latest sports news, for native posting and to feature within website content.
The Role
talkSPORT is looking for a Graphic Designer (Casual) to join our digital team.
You’ll utilise your creativity to take a proactive lead on creating bespoke, high-quality images for our various social media channels. These will serve to spark on-platform engagement – encouraging audiences to interact with our posts – and to drive traffic back to our owned and operated platform, talksport.com.
Working closely with the Social Media Editor and wider editorial team, you’ll support the day-to-day running of our Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts, ensuring talkSPORT is both leading and setting the agenda when it comes to sport’s biggest news stories and talking points, namely across Football and Boxing.
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This is a hands-on and fast-paced role, with a need for creating graphics at speed around breaking news, in addition to leveraging your creativity to ideate and design more high-end, pre-planned graphics in advance of events taking place.
The ideal candidate will be someone with great design skills, editorial nous and a creative mind, who lives and breathes sport and wants to kick-start their career in social or digital media.
Day to day you will:
- Create highly engaging graphics for our social channels and website articles, based on the sporting news cycle, to encourage conversation and debate
- Write sharp, eye-catching headlines and captions that help drive views, engagement and conversation
- Create and crop visuals using Photoshop, Canva, or similar tools to support our editorial teams
- React quickly to breaking news, trending topics, and live sports moments with timely, platform-optimised posts
- Lead and participate in ideation sessions to come up with new and creative concepts based on past successes and the current news cycle
- Help monitor real-time engagement data to inform what’s working and interact with users’ comments
- Work collaboratively with the wider editorial and video teams to ensure content consistency across platforms
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What we’re looking for in the ideal candidate:
- Comfortable using Photoshop and/or possess high-level graphic design skills
- Strong knowledge and passion for multiple sports, with a particular interest in Football and Boxing
- Experience of creating and scheduling content across various social channels
- Understanding of what content performs well across specific platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok
- Excellent spelling, grammar and attention to detail
- Ability to work accurately and efficiently under pressure
- Willingness to work evenings and weekends around key sporting events
- Able to commute into our London Bridge offices at least three times a week
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