Visuals Executive

At Hearst UK, there’s always more to the story. Join us as our new Visuals Executive start the next chapter in your career. You will be working across the picture desk with a special focus on video clipping, uploading, and SEO tagging. You’ll also play a key role in both print and digital picture research, ensuring our visual content is on point and compliant across newsletters, websites, and social media.

Key responsibilities include:

• Image & Video Management : Under the direction of the Photo Director, ensure images for Best , Inside Soap , and Digital Spy flow efficiently through the production system, meeting both print and digital deadlines.
• Soap Content Specialist : Work closely with the Inside Soap editor and Digital Spy Soap lead to find and curate the perfect images for Soap-related content across titles.
• Newsletter & Social Media Support : Source relevant pictures for newsletters, online, and social media content across the Entertainment Portfolio, assisting with image research and building newsletters in SailThru.
• Accuracy & Compliance : Meticulously check image tagging and details to ensure the highest standards of accuracy, while adhering to legal and copyright requirements.
• Video Clipping & Uploading : Clip, rip, and edit videos, uploading them to Hearst CMS and social media platforms, following SEO best practices.
• Library Maintenance : Help maintain and tag video footage for the Hearst library, and keep the Inside Soap image library up to date.

This role is perfect for someone with a keen eye for detail, a love for entertainment content, and a passion for working across multiple platforms.

We’re the UK’s leading premium publisher, and the people behind iconic media brands such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and Country Living. We’ve created a working environment that encourages everyone to pull together. We never stop looking for brave new ideas. We’ll always try to develop and improve, we trust each other to do our best, and we have fun as we build on our heritage to make history.

ABOUT YOU

• Experience on a consumer title.
• Knowledge of best, Inside Soap and Digital Spy & the
• Readerships is a plus.
• Experience using Censhare, InDesign and CMS is desirable.
• Experience clipping and uploading video.
• Experience SEO tagging.
• Experience building and sending newsletters is desirable.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Meticulous and organised.
• Calm under pressure.
Capable of juggling several tasks at once.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Hearst UK, you can choose from a huge range of perks and benefits that can help you learn well, work well and live well including:

• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy up to 5 additional holiday days) - pro rated for part-time or fixed-term employees
• Hybrid working
• Discounted gym membership
• Healthcare cash plan
• Spend a charity day with your favourite good cause
• Life assurance and pension scheme
Regular socials and more!

There’s more to your story than you imagine. And the next chapter begins right here.

Hearst UK is deeply committed to using our influential brands to reflect the world we want to live in – one that respects, protects, represents and uplifts the voices and opinions of all people. As a business, we recognise the significant benefits of creativity, collaboration and innovation that comes with diverse teams. Not only is diversifying the voices in our organization the right thing to do, but it also helps us to make powerful and exciting content that can be enjoyed by many more people. This is why we’re working to build a sense of true belonging within our business and foster a culture in which everyone feels heard.