Senior Designer

**Job Title:** Senior Designer

**Location:** New York

**Company:** BritBox International

**Reporting to:**Associate Art Director

**Contract Type:** Full-Time / Permanent

**About Us**

**BBC Studios’ Direct-to-Consumer (DTC)** business brings premium content directly to North American audiences through two distinctive streaming brands: BritBox and BBC Select.

**BritBox**, the ultimate streaming destination for British TV. We offer an unparalleled collection of thoughtfully curated entertainment—cleverly crafted and full of the charm, wit, and heart that define British storytelling.

Born from the BBC, our mission is to bring authentic British stories to our audiences. Launched in 2017, we are a small but mighty streamer that punches above our weight—available on every major platform and even featured among the bright lights of Times Square—and we’re just getting started.

**BBC Select** is a documentary streaming service that has been successfully operating since February 2021. It has established itself as the third-largest documentary streaming service in the US. With plans to expand through original commissions, territorial premieres, and new distribution platforms, BBC Select continues to serve a highly engaged audience that values educational, high-quality content. The integration of BBC Select into the DTC organization presents a strong opportunity to leverage shared capabilities, insights, and expertise to accelerate growth and enhance overall customer experience.

If you’re passionate about entertainment, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and want to play a meaningful role in our growth journey, this is your opportunity to be part of a dynamic Direct-to-Consumer business within BBC Studios, bringing the very best of British TV to fans everywhere.

**Job Purpose:**

We are looking for a Senior Designer to help shape the creative vision and visual identity of the BBC Select Documentary Streaming Service. This role combines hands-on design, art direction, brand stewardship, and creative leadership.

The Senior Designer will partner closely with the Art Directors, outside contractors, marketing and editorial teams to create premium, compelling key art and marketing tactics while establishing systems and workflows that allow the team to work efficiently and foster a collaborative environment.

**Responsibilities:**

* Develop and execute creative concepts for documentary streaming key art
* Concept and design brand and title marketing campaigns
* Build and present concept decks to internal stakeholders
* Evolve the brand’s visual identity, style guides and design systems
* Maintain a high standard of quality and consistency across DTC streaming creative
* Oversee and design creative for key streaming touchpoints, including homepage, content rails, collections, landing pages and promotions using audience insights and performance data to inform and improve creative
* Direct outside agencies and contractors, across multiple projects
* Collaborate with marketing, editorial, and product teams to ensure marketing creative and product experiences feel cohesive
* Develop workflows and processes that improve efficiency and creative quality
* Build automated templates to increase both productivity and quality
* Work closely with producers on multiple projects simultaneously, balancing competing priorities, timelines, and stakeholder needs
* Stay current with trends in streaming, entertainment, digital design, technology, and emerging creative tools
* Help producers scope projects, estimate design effort, and establish timelines and deliverables

**Knowledge and Experience**

* Experience working on key and entertainment marketing
* Experience designing key art
* Strong design and typography skills with excellent visual judgment
* Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
* Collaborative, communicative, and positive, with a solutions-oriented mindset
* Organized and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
* Takes ownership, welcomes feedback, and is willing to jump in wherever needed
* A love of documentaries and/or BBC Content
* Expert-level Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop
* Figma and animation experience is a plus
**Salary Range:** $XXK base salary + competitive benefits + bonus potential

Please note that the salary range is intended to give as an indicator of the salaries that could be attributed to the breadth or experience for a given role. All candidates will be measured based on their level of experience.

**Our Values**

Our **BritBox Global Values** not only represent our culture but also ensure that we have principles that shape everything we do. Defined by our employees, they are not just words on a page, but the foundation of how we work together, every day.

Our values have been cascaded into specific behaviours, which are embedded into all of our people processes, including hiring, onboarding, performance evaluation and feedback.

We are proud of our values and seek to hire people who resonate with them

This job spec is not exhaustive and may change from time to time in line with the evolving nature of a dynamic and growing business.