About this Senior Digital Designer role at News Corp Australia
What's the role?
Reporting to the Digital Design Lead, this 10-month fixed-term parental leave cover is your chance to elevate creative quality and innovation across CCP and Premium Native design.
As the Senior Designer, you will deliver high-impact digital work spanning campaigns, editorial, marketing, and omni-channel experiences. Championing strong storytelling and design craft, you will blend hands-on creation with strategic, data-driven thinking to shape engaging digital stories and audience journeys that drive commercial and audience growth. Ultimately, you will own the visual design direction on assigned projects while helping to maintain scalable design system standards across the teams.
Responsibilities
- Execute visual design across rich media, interactive, and responsive omni-channel work to brand and performance standards.
- Partner with writers, producers, and client partnerships to craft visual concepts that connect creative excellence with commercial goals.
- Contribute to and maintain scalable design systems, such as Figma libraries, to drive workflow efficiency.
- Present design rationale and solutions clearly to clients and stakeholders, responding effectively to their feedback.
- Maintain project details, timelines, and deliverables utilizing tools like Wrike and JIRA.
- Track emerging design trends, UI/UX innovation, and AI-assisted creative tools while proactively coaching and mentoring junior designers.
Who are you?
- An experienced professional with 5+ years in digital, native, or UI/UX design, focusing on campaign and interactive content execution.
- An expert in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, with proficiency in HTML/CSS and emerging AI creative tools.
- A conceptual thinker with a strong grasp of UI/UX principles, motion design, and accessibility who can build wireframes and prototypes.
- A storyteller who confidently incorporates video, imagery, and copywriting to create engaging and tasteful visual stories.
- An organized collaborator able to juggle multiple projects in a fast-moving, high-pressure environment while meeting deadlines.
- An excellent communicator with meticulous attention to detail and a constant drive to push skills and apply cutting-edge techniques.
Why News Corp Australia
Join a culture where innovation is our operating rhythm. You’ll work on a diverse portfolio of Australia’s most loved brands and play a pivotal role in leading the technological shift in how we create commercial content. Our vibrant, hybrid work environment and dynamic, values-driven culture empowers you to push boundaries, collaborate as one unified team, and make a positive, measurable impact for all Australians.
News Extras Benefits is a commitment to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities.
Our benefits include:
Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services that deliver genuine cost savings and benefits
Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money
In addition to our perks and benefits, employees have access to a number of initiatives and programs that support their wellbeing and professional growth, such as:
Helping you grow - Access tailored development opportunities, including leadership programs, to cultivate your skills and support your career
Giving back - Make a difference to our communities through volunteer opportunities and company-organised charity drives
Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms
Who are we?
News Corp Australia is the nation’s most influential media organisation, operating more than 150 household-name brands across print, digital and multimedia. We lead the way in travel, fashion, food, health, homes and lifestyle, and we are the largest publisher across print and digital, reaching morethan 16 million Australians each month.
What’s next?
Apply now or for more information on careers at News Corp Australia visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Diversity strengthens our national teams and newsroom as we seek to tell stories that represent the communities of Australia. Our people make us unique, and so we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or gender identity. Applicants of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply!
We are committed to ensuring an accessible and supportive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations at any stage, please do not hesitate to let us know here. In order for us to assist you, please ensure you include the role title you are applying for in the subject line. For more information regarding Diversity at NewsCorp Australia please visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers under the Diversity@News section.
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