Graphic Designer

Graphic Designer

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 worlds biggest sports radio station and a globally renowned digital publisher with a social footprint of more than 13M followers.

The team spans several departments including editorial social audience and tech and were 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.

Youll 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 .

Working closely with the Social Media Editor and wider editorial team youll 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 sports biggest news stories and talking points namely across Football and Boxing.

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 whats working and interact with users comments

• Work collaboratively with the wider editorial and video teams to ensure content consistency across platforms

What were 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