Location
Hackney Wick

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£40,000 - £50,000

About the Role
At Notpla, we’re at the forefront of sustainable innovation, creating natural alternatives to single-use plastic packaging engineered to help build a healthier planet. Founded on the belief that nature knows best, we are an innovative, action-oriented scale-up developing and manufacturing uncompromisingly natural packaging solutions from seaweed and plants.

We are seeking an AI Native Graphic Designer who will elevate how Notpla presents itself across every touchpoint while redefining how creative work is produced. This role goes beyond production; you will think, shape, and execute by combining strong design fundamentals with the ability to build, experiment with, and deploy AI-powered creative workflows.

You will bring ideas to life across campaigns, storytelling, sales enablement, and brand moments, while developing systems, prompts, and tools that scale high-quality creative output. Working closely with the Head of Marketing and commercial teams, you will translate complex sustainability and materials innovation into compelling visual communication through crafted design and intelligent automation.

This is an exciting time to join Notpla as we are on the brink of a record-breaking revenue year and major growth over the next 18–24 months, supported by a recent £20 million Series A+ fundraise. Beyond meaningful roles and a vibrant working environment, Notpla offers competitive compensation including EMI Share Options, a zero-carbon pension scheme, discounts with local businesses, and subsidised social activities. Our office-first hybrid working policy supports productivity while maintaining a dynamic and collaborative atmosphere.

As part of a mission-driven, diverse community, you will enjoy a high degree of autonomy and ownership of your domain. You will collaborate closely with a junior designer, supporting creative direction and hands-on guidance to strengthen and evolve Notpla’s visual identity across channels.

In addition, you will play a key role in embedding AI into the creative process—developing tools, prompt systems, and workflows that increase speed, consistency, and creative exploration. This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-scaling, award-winning company and shape not only its visual identity but also how that identity is produced at scale.

Working within our creatively driven marketing team, you will bring experience across brand, communication, or graphic design, alongside curiosity and capability in AI-assisted creation. You should be confident designing for both digital and physical outputs, with strong typography and layout fundamentals, while exploring how generative tools can enhance and extend these outputs.

Experience
- Proven experience with Claude Design, Freepik, or similar multimodal generative AI tools
- Strong portfolio spanning brand, campaigns, and commercial work
- Ability to design bold, high-impact campaign assets across digital, social, and events
- Experience translating strategy into clear, memorable visual storytelling
- Skilled in creating sales materials such as pitch decks, one-pagers, and toolkits
- Experience collaborating with commercial teams to clarify and polish complex propositions
- Ability to develop and maintain AI-driven workflows for generating and iterating creative assets
- Familiarity with building prompt libraries, templates, and systems to scale brand-consistent outputs
- Experience experimenting with generative tools (image, video, layout, copy) to accelerate concept development
- Capability to identify opportunities to automate repetitive design tasks without compromising quality
- Experience training and supporting teams in using AI tools effectively and responsibly

About you
- Enthusiastic about sustainability and innovation
- Strong design fundamentals with a curiosity for AI-assisted creative processes
- Confident working across digital and physical design outputs
- Collaborative team player with the ability to provide creative direction and mentorship
- Passionate about raising the creative bar and evolving brand guidelines
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-scaling, mission-led environment

Qualifications
- Relevant qualifications or demonstrable experience in graphic, brand, or communication design preferred but not mandatory
- Strong portfolio evidencing conceptual and executional design skills