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Art Editor

London
Full-time
Permanent employee

Your mission

As Art Editor, you will be the guardian of the HELLO! visual identity. We are looking for a creative powerhouse with a highly tuned, elevated women's luxury aesthetic. You will bridge the gap between concept and execution—crafting mood boards, directing visual flow, and ensuring the magazine’s "look and feel" remains sophisticated, fresh, and flawless every single week alongside the Picture team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Visual Strategy: Oversee the layout and aesthetic coherence of each issue, ensuring visual storytelling aligns perfectly with editorial goals and our premium brand identity.
  • Creative Management: Lead the design process from initial concept through to final production, collaborating seamlessly with editors, photographers, and illustrators.
  • Daily Excellence: Ensure all pages are delivered to a high standard, meeting daily production deadlines and pivoting quickly based on priorities set by the Editor and senior leadership.
  • Brand Stewardship: Maintain the "luxury" DNA of the magazine while innovating layouts to keep the reader engaged.

Your profile

  • The Expert: An experienced Art Editor with a background in high-end lifestyle or women’s luxury publications. You thrive in small, fast-paced teams.
  • The Eye: You possess a sophisticated eye for high-quality imagery and a deep understanding of typography, pacing, and colour.
  • The Professional: Confident, decisive, and capable of maintaining creative excellence under the pressure of tight weekly schedules.
  • The Collaborator: You know how to take a seed of an idea from an editor and bloom it into a stunning multi-page spread.

Experience

  • Essential: Proven experience in a design role at a major consumer magazine or similar publication.
  • Desired: A relevant degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, or a related creative field.
  • You could be a Junior Art Editor or someone ready for the step up to Art Editor. 

Qualifications

  • Technical Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop).

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave per year (for full time employees)
  • 1 birthday day per year
  • Private Medical Scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Life Assurance currently 6 x salary
  • Generous Employer Pension contributions
  • Group Income Protection Scheme
  • Plus all of the perks of working for a fun media company!

About us

MISSION STATEMENT

To influence and inspire with relevant, exclusive and entertaining content in a positive, celebratory and kind environment via stringent editorial integrity.

History of Hello

HELLO! is a market-leading lifestyle and celebrity publication, known for its positive and celebratory reporting and unrivalled showbiz exclusives which have been entertaining audiences since 1988.

Over the years, its digital brand has transformed from a small legacy publishing site into an influential global website.

HELLO! is part of the HOLA group, who launched ¡HOLA! magazine in Barcelona in 1944. The husband and wife team of Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón launched the publication with the aim of adding some sparkle to their readers’ lives. Always positive,¡HOLA! and HELLO! continue to remain true to the guiding principles of a new type of journalism - always positive, highly visual and celebratory, allowing readers a moment of escape into the worlds of the rich and famous to inspire, brighten and entertain.

With offices in London, New York and Toronto, HELLO! Magazine is now a 24-hour global website, with unique user experiences in our three main audience territories of the UK, US and Canada.

Our readership is more global than that however, with audiences also visiting the site from Australia, India, Europe and all other parts of the world.