Training as a media designer for digital and print (m/f/d)

Training as a media designer for digital and print (m/f/d) at Axel Springer News Media National in Berlin, BE, Germany.

Role Summary

• You will work on the planning, conception and design of our media products in digital and print
• develop a professional feel for typography, layout, composition, color, shapes and imagery
• Learn important design basics, from image editing, layout and typography to working with text and image data
• You will learn how to use the Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and other design tools and use them in your everyday work
• you develop websites using CSS and HTML
• design the content for digital channels, social media formats of individual brands or training projects such as the trainee account
• With the "Springer:ling" magazine you take on responsibility in a self-organized trainee project with a visible reach within the company

Requirements

you have successfully completed your high school diploma or your technical high school diploma (soon).

• Your passion includes a sense of aesthetics and visual harmony
• you are enthusiastic about media and can design with fonts, images, shapes and colors
• In addition to very good eyesight and color discrimination, you also have good spelling skills
• you have very good German (at least C1) and good English skills (at least B2)

Benefits

• an open and modern work culture - with us everyone is on a first-name basis
• Look forward to a free lunch with a variety of dishes in our employee restaurants
• joint trainee events, weekly check-ins and plenty of space for personal exchange
• the opportunity to do an internship at home or abroad (ERASMUS+)
• the option to take over after successful completion of your training
• You can find the most frequently asked questions and answers in our FAQs: career.axelspringer.com/de/faq

To make reading easier, we limit ourselves to male terms throughout the text. Nevertheless, diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We look forward to all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

You can find information about representing severely disabled people at Axel Springer here: career.axelspringer.com/de/ksbv

About the Company

Anyone who creates media must understand change. Axel Springer has been doing exactly that for 80 years - and is one step ahead. From the print business to the digital media world, from a listed corporation to a family-run company, from German roots to international reach: Today, Axel Springer brings together brands such as BILD, WELT, POLITICO, Business Insider and The Telegraph. What drives us: recognizing developments early, using new technologies such as AI sensibly and rethinking journalism for the digital future. Our Five Essentials are the values that unite us and our compass in our commitment to freedom.

Would you like to know in advance what to expect? Then take a look at our Instagram channel and discover the everyday lives of our trainees.

Start of training: September 1st, 2027

Additional Information

Please complete the following documents with your application

• Tabular CV
• Letter of motivation and certificates (Abitur or technical high school diploma or the last 2 school reports)
• varied work samples (e.g. self-designed flyers or business cards as well as photos/images edited with image programs)

Note: The letter of motivation, the certificates and the work samples (max. 10 MB per file) can be uploaded on the second page in the application process.