We are looking for freelance editorial/news/publication web designers with expertise in WordPress, to help us at Yes we work. Tasks would initially be freelance and sporadic, only occasionally urgent.

A lot of our time is spent developing, evolving and maintaining bespoke WordPress sites for news and editorial organisations. Complete (re)designs are occasionally needed, but usually we're evolving an existing design and working on new pages, components, workflows and interfaces, both front-end and back-end. We use Figma in the design phase.

As a result, we're looking exclusively for designers who also know what it's like to use WordPress as an Author, Editor or Admin User, and who are familiar with Gutenberg / Full-Site-Editing. Our ideal people would be comfortable translating designs to Post and Page content using the Block Editor... someone wise wrote on social media that "you cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does; you cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they are trying to accomplish," and we strongly agree.

Broadly, we value curiosity, and thinking carefully, critically and laterally about design, UX and information architecture challenges, and suggesting alternatives to convention (or even to the brief) when there's a good reason.

Alongside design for the web / WordPress, our work also encompasses:

• templating and laying out print publications;
• all the usual vector and raster graphics tasks;
• identities / logos;
• some data-viz and charting;
• presentations and design for/in word-processing and spreadsheet applications.

If you do some of those things too, great (but they're not the core of what we're looking for right now). And if you have skills we don't – e.g. illustration, animation, bid writing, motion graphics, video production, A/B testing, 3D, typeface design, fluent Arabic, RTL, green fingers... ad infinitum – we would gladly think together of ways to integrate and promote them too (but again, they might not be core).

You can tell us your hour/day rates; as a rough guide, our mid-range is around £250/day. Bigger pieces of work would be for an agreed project fee.

LinkedIn has its own application process, but really we don't require CVs. We WOULD really appreciate you looking at our website or our posts on LinkedIn and thinking about how your skills might fit with our projects. So a covering message might be helpful! Equally, if you get a short rejection email, that might also be down to the foibles of LinkedIn's job postings, but thank you for your interest!

We are very open to a conversation or a phone call in which we can... share anecdotes about synced and partially-synced patterns... ponder why Figma can't do text wrapping in this day and age... talk about hand-coding SVGs... get heated about dark patterns, invasive business models, and cookie notices with no "decline all" option... debate how "related reading" boxes should work, and why they rarely do... and look at some of our respective past work (whoever did it can tear it apart while the other compliments it).

It'd be a bonus if you're sometimes in the north of England / south of Scotland to be able to meet Thomas for design discussions. More on the side of development, Andrew's in Barcelona and João is in Porto, so if those locations (and their languages) are convenient, that's good too. Other side of the world? Lucky you! But time differences can get in the way of working together on things.

Please say hello. Or if you're reading this and know someone to whom it might apply, please ask them to get in touch, or introduce us.