Apprentice Brand Designer

Job Description

Duration: 2 Year Apprenticeship

Start Date:

January 2027

Location:

London Bridge

The Times and Sunday Times brand design team. We sit at the intersection of brand identity, user experience, and our evolving and newly launched design system. We collaborate across marketing, editorial, product, commercial and engineering teams to ensure our visual language communicates the value, integrity, and depth of our world-class journalism to new and existing audiences.

As an Apprentice Brand Designer, you will play a vital role in shaping how iconic media brands express themselves across modern digital touchpoints. Working alongside experienced designers and technologists, you will blend visual craft, user-centered principles, and emerging tools while earning a qualification and developing your design career.

During your time with us, you will earn above the national living wage while receiving comprehensive, hands‑on training. You’ll work 4 days a week with News UK and spend 1 day studying toward a fully funded qualification. Along with mentorship from top industry professionals, we will provide any tailored support you need to reach your full potential.

• Craft expressive brand visuals, typography, layout, and color hierarchy across digital touchpoints.
• Translate brand assets into reusable, scalable components within our overarching digital design system in Figma.
• Partner with marketing, editorial, product, and engineering colleagues to champion brand consistency and intuitive reader experiences.
• Explore AI-assisted tools and generative workflows to expand creative boundaries and optimise daily design delivery.
• Present design concepts clearly, explaining the rationale behind creative decisions in team critiques.

• Demonstrable foundational craft in typography, layout, visual hierarchy, and color theory applied to digital formats.
• Hands‑on familiarity with Figma, including basic knowledge of components, auto‑layout, and design system structures.
• Practical understanding of basic user experience principles, digital accessibility, and user journeys.
• Active interest in experimenting with creative AI tools and new design plugins to streamline workflows.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to share design ideas and constructive feedback in collaborative team settings.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our news brands 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.

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 represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the…