Lead Digital Developer

The Telegraph’s Commercial Design & Development team is looking for a Lead Digital Developer to lead a small team of digital designers and help deliver story-led creative experiences across our digital platforms.

You’ll work on high-impact projects including long reads, AMP stories and other innovative formats, ensuring everything we produce meets the highest creative and technical standards.

This role combines hands-on development with team leadership. You’ll support and guide a talented group of designers while working closely with colleagues across the commercial organisation to bring ideas to life.

We’re looking for someone with strong development skills, a good eye for visual and UX design, and the confidence to contribute to creative discussions, brainstorms and presentations. Attention to detail and a passion for innovative digital storytelling are key.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support a small team of digital designers, helping them develop their design and development skills and confidence across Commercial projects.

• Design and develop digital campaign components, including bespoke long-form content and other story-led formats that require custom development.
• Continuously review and refine creative output to improve campaign performance and user experience.
• Take ownership of projects from concept through to final delivery, ensuring work is produced to a high standard and delivered on time.
• Review and provide constructive feedback on your team’s work in a collaborative and timely way.
• Attend internal meetings to understand campaign objectives, contribute creative ideas, and present design and UX approaches where needed.
• Work closely with colleagues across the business to ensure projects are delivered smoothly and on schedule.
• Keep up to date with emerging design and development trends, helping to shape new ideas and formats for future campaigns.

Requirements

• A strong portfolio showcasing a range of digital development work.
• Solid knowledge of web technologies, digital design trends and best practice for building and delivering online experiences.
• Strong understanding of responsive design and how to implement it effectively across devices.
• Proficiency in core front-end development languages including HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience using Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Familiarity with the wider digital design ecosystem, including tools and libraries that support development workflows (for example Relume or Formly).
• Experience implementing analytics, custom event tracking and other performance metrics.
• A good understanding of core design principles such as typography, colour and layout.
• Comfortable receiving and applying constructive feedback to improve work and outcomes.
• Experience with UI prototyping tools such as Figma would be beneficial.
• Experience with JavaScript animation libraries such as GSAP would be a plus

Benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.