Book Designer

2 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Rockpool Publishing Full time

**Title**:Book Designer

**Company Name**:Rockpool Publishing

**Job Location**:Sydney, Inner West - Leichhardt

**Employment**Status: 12-month Maternity leave contract

**Salary range**:$80k package
- Fantastic opportunity in Book publishing
- Nominated Small Publisher of the Year last two years running. 2023, 2024
- Leichhardt, Sydney

Rockpool Publishing, a leading publisher of practical non-fiction books including wellness, mind-body-spirit, sport and recreation books, is offering an exciting opportunity for a talented designer to work on its highly successful range of books and cards as part of our dedicated publishing team.

We are now looking for an experienced book designer to join the team for a 12-month maternity leave contract with a possibility to extend into a permanent role.

The successful applicant will have 3+ years experience in book design and layout both covers and internal pages, typesetting and packaging design.

You will have excellent design skills, attention to detail, be confident in creating new content and be proficient with the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of products, especially InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. Experience in setting up long document design files in an efficient way is a must. You will also have a sound knowledge of four-colour printing processes and requirements from a design point of view, setting up files for different types of embellishments and pre-pressing PDFs for print.

Excellent organisational and communication skills and an ability to work both independently and within a team are required. Experience in books is a prerequisite as is a working knowledge of MS Office suites. This is an extremely fast paced role that requires remaining calm and creative under pressure. Appropriate tertiary-level qualifications are essential for this role.

Other skills and responsibilities include:

- Working to tight deadlines across multiple books and non-book product
- Ability to follow style guides and work within the bounds of sales and Publishing requirements and feedback
- Confidence in pitching your concepts and designs to an in-house team
- Working with multiple editors, publishers and retail account managers
- Understanding of commercial printing methods and embellishments to heighten visual appeal and to deliver profit-driving results
- Keeping abreast of new graphic/layout techniques, design trends and styles in the industry. Sharing this knowledge with the design team.
- Designing non-book product such as boxed up card sets and packaging
- Liaising with printers on production queries
- Keeping abreast of in-house style guides, assets and design feedback
- General design admin such as archiving files and maintaining assets on servers

Located in Vibrant Leichhardt, only a few minutes walk from Norton Street with restaurants and cafes and a 10 minute walk from Lilyfield light rail station.

Creative Director, Sara Lindberg

Applications close 29 August

**Job Type**: Fixed term
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: Up to $80,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Salary packaging

**Experience**:

- Book design: 2 years (required)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)

Work Location: In person

Application Deadline: 29/08/2025
Expected Start Date: 15/09/2025

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