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.
Confidential applications including a cover letter outlining appropriate qualifications and experience, plus CV and design portfolio, should be made in writing to:
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