Digital Storytelling Designer

Location: MailOnline Headquarters – London
Position: Permanent 

MailOnline is looking for a candidate to create visually compelling interactive graphics, rooted in data, as part of our in-house creative team.

You will be responsible for conceptualising, developing and executing engaging interactive graphics to enhance our journalism and engage our readers.

The candidate will produce captivating visual-led content across all our departments that is mobile friendly and works on multiple platforms.

The role involves working as part of a team alongside reporters, desk heads, data teams on both print and online, to help elevate our digital storytelling.

This is an exciting opportunity to elevate to the visual narrative of our news stories and present data in new compelling formats. As such, the team are responsible for creating everything from everyday graphics, maps and charts, across a range of topics, to ambitious interactive and immersive stories.

Experience Required 

• Experience in graphics and/or visual storytelling, ideally in the news publishing world
• A deep understanding of UX and UI and how this ranges from desktop to mobile
• Have strong graphic design skills and ideally highly proficient with Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
• Experience of manipulating large data sets on Excel, which can be plugged into data visualisation tools such as Datawrapper, Infogram and others
• A deep understanding of motion graphics
• A creative mind who can transform data into compelling and accessible visual narratives
• Confidence to pitch ideas and constantly thinking about how we can evolve our product
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Have a passion for telling stories and knowledge of the news agenda

About dmg::media

dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The Mail brand reaches one in two Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country.*

Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, Metro.co.uk, i and inews.co.uk reach more than 10.1m people daily in the UK.*

Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 190M unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.**

Our newsbrands maintain an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most to our readers, ensuring that we remain experts at delivering relevant and insightful content.

 In October, the Mail became the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 7- million followers. 

*PAMCo H2 2023

**GA 2023 September”

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.