AI Native Graphic Designer, Notpla
£40-50k
2-5 days a week in office
Sustainable seaweed packaging
Open for applications
Sustainable seaweed packaging
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£40-50k
2-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
On a mission to make packaging disappear.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll have a strong portfolio spanning brand, campaigns and commercial work, with the ability to move between conceptual and executional design
- You should be confident designing for both digital and physical outputs, with strong typography and layout fundamentals, while also exploring how generative tools can enhance and extend these outputs
- Experience with Claude Design, Freepik or similar multimodal generative AI tools
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an AI Native Graphic Designer who can elevate how Notpla shows up across every touchpoint, while also redefining how creative work is produced
- This is not a production-only role
- We want someone who can think, shape and execute - combining strong design fundamentals with the ability to build, experiment with, and deploy AI-powered creative workflows
- You’ll bring ideas to life across campaigns, storytelling, sales enablement and brand moments, while also developing systems, prompts and tools that scale high-quality creative output
- Working closely with the Head of Marketing and commercial teams, you’ll help translate complex sustainability and materials innovation into compelling visual communication - both through crafted design and intelligent automation
- This is an exciting time to join Notpla - we’re on the brink of a record-breaking year for revenue and on track for major growth in the next 18–24 months
- To support this, we have just secured a £20 million Series A+ fundraise, enabling us to scale our growth and environmental impact faster than ever
- Beyond offering meaningful roles and a vibrant working environment, Notpla provides 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 lets you work in the way that maximises your productivity while maintaining a dynamic and collaborative atmosphere
- We’re a social business with regular clubs and events, and we’re proud of how our diverse, mission-driven community works together to make plastic disappear
- Led by strong values, all Notpla employees are encouraged to take ownership of their domain, enjoying a high degree of autonomy
- Our aim is to build an inspiring culture reflected in our working policies, environment, and people
- As an AI Native Graphic Designer, you’ll collaborate closely with a junior designer, supporting creative direction and hands-on guidance to strengthen and evolve Notpla’s visual identity across channels
- Alongside this, you’ll 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 chance to join a fast-scaling, award-winning, mission-led company and shape not only its visual identity, but 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 a curiosity and capability in AI-assisted creation
- Design bold, high-impact campaign assets across digital, social and events
- Translate strategy into clear, memorable visual storytelling
- Help evolve Notpla’s brand world as we scale globally
- Create sales materials that win business (pitch decks, one-pagers, toolkits)
- Build assets that support distributors, partners and ingredient branding
- Collaborate with commercial teams to bring clarity and polish to complex propositions
- Develop and maintain AI-driven workflows for generating and iterating creative assets
- Build prompt libraries, templates and systems to scale brand-consistent outputs
- Experiment with generative tools (image, video, layout, copy) to accelerate concept development
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive design tasks without compromising quality
- Train and support the wider team in using AI tools effectively and responsibly
- Design social-first storytelling (carousels, launches, thought leadership)
- Support product launches and innovation narratives
- Bring personality and humanity into the brand
- Support trade shows, activations and experiential moments
- Create standout visual presence across real-world environments
- Maintain and evolve visual consistency across channels
- Contribute to evolving our brand guidelines and creative direction
- Help raise the overall creative bar at Notpla
Salary benchmarks
Our take
To tackle the mounting issue of single-use plastics, a number of startups are turning to the development of seaweed-based alternatives. It’s a promising pivot: seaweed can be farmed without crowding out land, and is invaluable in carbon sequestration. Additionally, the finished product is transparent, edible, and naturally biodegradable. Players in the field include Oceanium, Sway, and SoluBlu - but the best funded one in the sector so far is Notpla.
Applications for the Notpla material so far have been broad and popular among enterprise clients. It’s coated Just Eat takeaway boxes, and led to Notpla’s award-winning Ooho sachet, an edible sachet containing liquids like cocktails (trialled at Glastonbury), energy drinks (trialled at the 2019 London Marathon), and condiments (as seen in Nopla’s partnership with Heinz). But many more are on the go.
If Notpla’s record is anything to go by, these new use cases seem likely to see substantial uptake by major clients. It’s an effective solution, and one that neatly meets the sharp rise in consumer demand for sustainable packaging. Notpla's head-start on competition comes in the form of regular grants and funding, and will put them in good stead to become a market leader.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
48% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Jan 2026
$4.6m
GRANT
Sep 2024
$26.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $57.3m
Company HQ
Hackney Wick, London, UK
Leadership
Pierre-Yves Paslier
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Previously a Packaging Engineer for Garnier, and then a Designer at Alt Design.
Rodrigo García González
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Previously lectured at Goldsmiths, Central St Martins, and Kingston University - where he spent 7 years lecturing for various Product Design courses.
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