Editorial Illustrator & Graphic Designer Job at Deseret News, Salt Lake City, UT 84180

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Job Description

Our company is committed to being trusted voices of light and truth reaching hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

The Deseret News seeks an experienced illustrator/graphic designer to create editorial illustration and graphic design for its new and evolving digital news products.

Check out our top illustrations from 2022 to understand what we do and our style!

The role:

The illustrator/graphic designer will create original editorial illustrations, photo illustrations, infographics, and design elements to augment news stories. They will also provide design assistance to the marketing team.

This is a hybrid position that will work at our office in Downtown Salt Lake City 3-4 days a week.

Applicants must submit an electronic portfolio and/or a link to your online portfolio in order to be considered for this position.

You’re a good fit if you:

  • Have a bachelor's degree in art, design or illustration, or equivalent experience

  • Have 2-5 years of professional graphic design or illustration experience

  • Have an excellent illustration and design portfolio that shows editorial illustration, with experience in both digital and print media that communicates powerfully

  • Wield a robust toolkit of illustration skills and design principles in your work

  • Are able to create a simple impactful visual concept that provides an ‘a-ha’ moment in the viewer when combined with the headline / story

  • Have experience unifying brands and building style guides to create visually congruent artwork and illustrations

  • Can create digital graphics and visual interactives to tell a story and augment online news stories

  • Have experience collaborating with a wide variety of people to form and deliver results based on a common vision

You’re an even better fit if you:

  • Are an ardent observer of news and current events and a consumer of in-depth reporting and analysis

  • Have experience working for a consumer media organization and understand journalism ethics

  • Have a killer editorial illustration portfolio that shows bright conceptual thinking

  • Have experience creating marketing campaign elements

Our team

You will join an energetic group of colleagues who aspire to the best processes for development that fit our team. Our team members don't take themselves too seriously, but we are serious about working together as digital innovators.

Our culture
Culture is a very important part of the Deseret News Publishing Company. We look for people who exhibit and exemplify our Cultural Beliefs:

  • Think Audience — I understand and engage our audiences.

  • Build Trust — I share my best, respect my colleagues and expect others to do the same.

  • Be One — I collaborate to build a unified, world-class team.

  • Align Daily — I align my efforts daily with our Key Results.

  • Own It — I continually ask, “What else can I do to achieve our results?” and refuse to blame others.

  • Go Big — I inform and influence the world in a way no one else does.

Our company
The Deseret News is Utah’s oldest newspaper and the Beehive state’s longest continuously-operating business. Our primary focus is digital and our reach is national and global with over half of our online readers living outside of Utah.

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