Artworker, Michael Joseph

We’re looking for a creative and detail-focused Artworker to join the Art Department at Penguin Michael Joseph, supporting the team in bringing our books and campaigns to life. Combining creativity with technical precision, this is a fantastic opportunity to work across a varied range of publishing projects, developing your skills within a collaborative and supportive creative environment.

About Penguin Michael Joseph Penguin Michael Joseph publishes some of the world’s most popular and commercially successful authors and brands, including Jamie Oliver, Marian Keyes, Dr Julie Smith, Claire Douglas, Sen

Lin Yu and Dawn French. We specialise in women’s fiction, crime and thriller, fantasy, romance, cookery, memoir and lifestyle books. Many of our authors are now, or soon will be, household names here in the UK and around the world.

We seek out the very best authors in their field and bring their books to the widest possible audience. We take an author’s vision and turn it into a beautiful book people can’t help but talk about. In a crowded market, our books shine.

Role Summary

Working closely with your manager and the wider Art Department, you’ll provide essential creative and technical support, with a particular focus on artworking and reformatting files ready for print. Alongside this core work, you’ll have opportunities to contribute to additional creative projects, gaining exposure to different areas of the design process and developing your experience along the way.

This role would suit someone with a keen eye for detail, strong technical skills and a genuine enthusiasm for creative design and publishing. Key responsibilities: First point of technical support, trouble shooting and problem-solving within the department

Picking up projects at any stage in the process and taking over to finalise as required

Multitasking over many microprojects at any one time

Reformatting pre-existing designs

Compositing images within photoshop

Typesetting cover copy

Taking in text corrections