Graphics Editor

Graphics Editor / Designer - Fabulous and Sun Sport Originals

**Location**:
London

Department:
The Sun

Salary Details:
Not Specified

**Advertising End Date**:
05 Jan 2025

**Job Description**:
**Company Overview**:
**The Sun** is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.

An iconic, dynamic storyteller with a rich heritage and a global audience in the millions, The Sun is now focusing on an exciting, video-focussed strategy to engage new audiences, putting video at the heart of The Sun’s journalism.

Sun Originals is a brand new video production studio making premium series for The Sun, Sun Sport and Fabulous brands. Creating, developing and producing a slate of brand new original shows, the team are helping The Sun reach its next generation of viewers.

**Your Role**: As GFX Editor / Designer youwill be involved in creating new graphics across all our new YouTube series including simple title sequences, text elements and thumbnails.

**Day to day you will**:
+ Create simple and engaging motion graphics for title sequences using AfterEffects.

+ Help set the style and tone of our new series by designing all graphic elements including titles, captions, lower thirds.

+ Create GFX templates using AfterEffects for editors to use in PremierPro.

+ Create stunning YouTube thumbnails using Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop.

+ Create designs for other social media platforms including TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.

+ Assist with cut dows for various social media platforms: Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram.

**What we are looking for from you**:
+ Advanced in After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro and Creative Suite workflows including Photoshop.

+ Must have worked on fast-paced, high volume strands for various social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.

+ Good operational knowledge of working within a team editing environment.

+ Good communication and interpersonal skills.

+ A knowledge of remote edit and Cloud-based workflows in general.

+ Knowledge of common file types, codecs and resolutions.

+ Self-motivated with the ability to manage your own time and work to meet demanding deadlines.

+ An impeccable attention to detail is a must.

+ Ability to work well under pressure and coordinate, prioritise and work in a fast-paced environment.

**News UK** is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

**Life at News**

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

**Benefits**:
+ Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

+ Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions.

+ Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes.

+ ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme.

+ Up to 60% discount on HarperCollins books.

+ Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities.

+ Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling.

+ A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%.

+ 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year.

+ Thriving employee networks supporting colleagues to embed and grow, including women in technology, parenting, wellbeing, GenZ, News Is Out and faith-oriented groups.