Designer, BBC News Design
BBC Media Action
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-Time
DEPARTMENT: BBC News Design
LOCATION: London
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £34,000 - £44,850 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
JOB PURPOSE
You will help shape how audiences experience BBC News across social and emerging platforms by designing compelling social storytelling formats and video‑led narratives. This role focuses on creating high‑impact, platform‑native stories and building the templates and components that enable teams to publish quickly and consistently. You will combine strong design craft with motion expertise to bring clarity, pace, and visual distinction to our journalism.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
The Storytelling & Formats team sits at the centre of BBC News’s visual storytelling across digital and social channels. We develop the formats, motion systems and reusable components that define how stories perform on web and platforms including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and other social surfaces.
As a Designer with motion skills, you will work closely with journalists, social editors, and platform specialists to translate editorial priorities into distinctive, shareable storytelling. You will design, build, and document templates and motion patterns and contribute to evolving our cross‑platform design system to better serve social‑first publishing.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
• Design platform‑native, motion‑led storytelling formats for social channels.
• Build and maintain reusable After Effects templates for fast newsroom publishing.
• Create scalable Figma components aligned with the BBC News design system.
• Collaborate with journalists and social editors to shape social‑video narratives.
• Translate complex stories into clear, accessible, visually compelling motion sequences.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE – KEY CRITERIA
• Strong portfolio showcasing social‑first design and motion‑driven storytelling.
• Proven experience building After Effects templates for social workflows.
• Working knowledge of Figma, including components and responsive layout systems.
• Strong understanding of social platform conventions and performance needs.
• Excellent typographic, layout and motion craft with clear narrative thinking.
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED
• Experience creating motion guidelines or contributing to brand systems.
• Familiarity with Premiere Pro or comparable editing tools.
• Experience working in agile or multidisciplinary product environments.
• Background in a newsroom or fast‑paced media setting.
• Exposure to experimental storytelling formats or emerging platforms.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:
• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk
