Head Of Art and Design

Job Description

Is this the role for you?

In 2025, Channel 5 and My5 are joining forces under one powerful new brand: 5 – delivering an all-new, unified experience across TV, streaming, and digital platforms.

We're looking for passionate individuals to help shape this next chapter. This unified brand will revolutionize TV, streaming, and digital platforms, offering expanded free streaming services, more UK drama originals, and specially curated FAST channels.

With personalisation and cutting-edge, data-driven advertising solutions, 5 is set to lead the future of entertainment. After an impressive year of industry-leading growth, including a 40% surge in viewership in 2024, 5 is gearing up to transform the viewing experience- and we want you to be a part of it!

Help us create a brand that delivers unlimited entertainment, always free. Join the team driving the 5 relaunch and shape the future of how the world watches.

The 5 creative team make the marketing campaigns to launch all of these excellent new shows, as well as building the overall brand identities of all the channels and platforms that sit under the 5 umbrella.

What will you be doing?

A key role within the Channel 5 creative / marketing department, the Head of Art & Design will lead a team of staff and freelance designers with responsibility for every design asset crafted, ensuring balance across all platforms and touchpoints. We want all of our artwork to stand out and cut through wherever our audience encounters it, be that on our streaming platform, on TV, on magazine covers, in press articles, online, in social feeds or on massive billboards.

Mastery crafting artwork for all campaign touchpoints is required, including print / digital out of home, performance marketing, on air and social. As well as experience as a senior brand guardian, it's important to be dedicated to creating and maintaining style guides and ensuring they are understood and adhered to by everyone who works on the brand.

Deep knowledge of the current media landscape and engagement with all projects with the bigger picture in mind is necessary. As well as a strategic approach to producing artwork that will work for specific audiences and for use across all the different touchpoints of a campaign.

You will head up design projects with internal teams and external agencies, so excellent communication is key.

The role will include art directing still photography shoots and the creation of key art, as well as leading motion graphics and branding projects.

You will work with creatives and producers to ensure all assets are delivered to the highest creative standard, providing visual mentorship on every project, ensuring all output is delivered on time and to budget.

In short, you will be able to direct design work to a very high standard across all touchpoints and will have a significant impact on the art & design output from the overall creative department.

What are we looking for?
• Extensive experience in all stages of the design process for multiplatform campaigns from ideation and pitching through to execution and delivery
• Expertise leading design teams and developing talent
• Comprehensive experience art directing stills shoots and getting the best results from designers and retouchers throughout the post production process
• Proficiency working across mainstream design software including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign as well as a strong understanding of 2D / 3D motion graphics software and workflows
• Ability to bring teams together and improve both the workflows and the creative quality of a team's output
• Extensive knowledge and ability to work to marketing briefs, shaping ideas to fit the brief and always able to flex and adapt to partner feedback
• Strongly committed to collaboration and working as part of a wider team
• Strong organisational skills with ability to prioritise workload
• Always keen to take the initiative and look for ways to improve processes and workflows
• Used to working in a fast-paced environment with multiple colleagues
• Able to work within tight budgets and timeframes whilst still delivering creative brilliance
• Impressive portfolio of work demonstrating all of the above

Please include a working link to your online show reel / portfolio in your application (together with any passwords if needed for viewing)

Channel 5 is an award-winning public service broadcaster and the UK's third latest commercial TV station, reaching 3 in 4 of the UK viewing public each month. The channel has a diverse schedule of original programmes across genres including issue-led documentaries, popular factual, accessible history, stunning natural history, inclusive entertainment and reality, top level sport, high quality scripted programming, headline-grabbing current affairs and critically acclaimed children's and news programming. Channel 5 is a unit of Paramount Global.

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

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