Location: London or Bristol (Hybrid, 2 days/week in office)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: 55k - 60k

About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Designer who can lead from the front, shaping creative output, influencing brand direction, and helping the design function operate at a higher level. This role is particularly well suited to a designer who is both creatively strong and technically curious - someone who enjoys thinking in systems, experimenting with workflows, and exploring how technology can enhance creative production. We’re looking for a modern multidisciplinary creative who combines strong visual taste and design craft and experience with curiosity around AI, automation, tooling, and scalable creative operations.

This role reports into the Sustainability Marketing Director and works closely alongside the wider Brand Marketing team.

This is not just a delivery role. You’ll play a key part in:

• defining and evolving our brand
• improving how we work
• and leading conversations across the business

You should be someone who is comfortable with ambiguity, confident with stakeholders, and motivated to step into design leadership.

Company Profile
Ecologi is the UK’s most trusted climate action platform. Our mission is to inspire and empower businesses to accelerate global climate action through funding high quality, high integrity climate solutions including reforestation, habitat restoration, carbon avoidance and removal projects around the world. We are trusted by over 16,000 businesses; Co-op, O2, BAFTA Albert, ITV, Ubisoft, Oracle, Capgemini, Mulberry, including 270+ B Corps.

Our community has collectively funded the planting of over 89m trees, avoided 3.5m tonnes of verified CO2e, over 39,000m2 of habitat restored and permanently removed 14,000 tonnes of CO2. We’re science-led and impact driven, aligned to the SBTi and Oxford Principles and guided by our impact team and expert independent climate committee. We support leading industry standards and work with leading third-party quality assessment from our partners Sylvera, BeZero Carbon, Calyx Global and Renoster. We’re a proudly certified B Corp, in the Top 5% for Environment and Governance, as well as the most trusted climate action brand in the UK with an average 4.8 rating on Trustpilot.

As a team we’re easy going and take great pride in our work. From brand marketing to product development, we’re all striving to move the needle on the climate emergency. Our culture is about being honest and transparent so we trust each other, and about feeling part of something bigger than yourself. We're willing to do something good with our lives and for our planet. If you feel the same, we could be the right company for you! Our Values:

• Planet First: We are science-led and impact-driven. We hold ourselves to the highest scientific standards and collaborate with the best global partners. We provide leading-edge solutions for our planet that customers love.
• Always Accountable: We gain trust through transparency. We do our due diligence and seek out the best possible data to inform our decisions. We value authenticity, openness, honesty and operate with integrity and autonomy.
• Changemakers: We drive meaningful change. We are agents of change. We’re progress driven, setting ambitious goals even when faced with uncertainty and ambiguity. We test, we learn, we move forwards. We’re brave, optimistic, resilient and enjoy the challenge that change brings.
• Act, Together: We believe in the power of collective action. We inspire and empower our people and businesses to make a positive difference. Together, we challenge, we communicate, we collaborate. We celebrate and champion diversity and inclusion.
  
  

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and influence brand direction, ensuring consistency and quality across all outputs (social, digital, web, video, paid performance)
• Proactively explore, upskill and integrate AI tools and workflows into the department’s day-to-day work (increasing usage from 0% to 50%)
• Help design and evolve scalable creative systems and workflows that improve quality, consistency, speed, and experimentation across the team
• Continuously evolve and strengthen our design system using systems thinking, creating scalable frameworks, reusable patterns, and AI-enhanced workflows that improve consistency, speed, and creative quality across the business
• Run and facilitate brand alignment pod sessions across teams (including Product), bringing clarity and direction
• Collaborate closely with marketing stakeholders to shape briefs, explore concepts, and translate strategic ideas into scalable creative execution.
• Deliver high-quality design work across both BAU and strategic initiatives
• Take ownership of complex or ambiguous briefs and drive them forward
• Improve processes and workflows within the design team to ensure an agile AI first delivery approach for rapid scaling and testing
• Mentor and support other designers (including potential line management of a midweight designer)
• Increase department’s output for motion and video work (scaling to 50% in the first 6 months)
  
  

AI & Workflow Innovation

• Experiment with emerging AI tooling, integrations, and creative workflows (e.g. Claude, Canva AI, generative video tools, AI-assisted production pipelines) to improve speed, iteration, and creative capability.
• Explore opportunities for automation, modular creative systems, and AI-assisted creative operations where relevant.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, speed, and quality through leveraging AI to ensure we can scale, iterate and test creative and messaging rapidly
• Stay up to date with developments in AI and design, and bring ideas back into the team
• Experiment and iterate on new approaches, helping the team evolve over time
  
  

Stakeholder & Leadership Expectations

• Confidently manage relationships across the business, including senior stakeholders
• Navigate ambiguity and conflicting priorities with calm and clarity
• Be comfortable challenging briefs, pushing back when needed, and guiding conversations constructively
• Translate ambiguity and complex stakeholder input into clear creative direction and actionable next steps
• Lead difficult conversations with professionalism and composure
• Build strong, collaborative relationships across teams
• You are able to rise above day-to-day noise and competing demands, creating space to think strategically and bring clarity to complex situations
  
  

What Good Looks Like in This Role

• You operate with a high degree of independence and ownership
• You think in systems and processes, not just individual design deliverables
• You remain calm, solutions-focused, and strategically minded even in fast-moving or high-noise environments
• You are comfortable leading conversations, not just contributing to them
• You bring clarity to complex or undefined situations
• You actively improve how the team works, not just what it produces
• You combine strong creative craft with leadership presence
• You think beyond individual deliverables, continuously improving the design system, creative infrastructure, and scalable ways of working across the organisation

What We’re Looking For

• Deep experience as a multidisciplinary designer, with strong craft across motion, video, graphic design and creative production.
• Strong visual taste, attention to detail, and understanding of brand, art direction, and creative quality
• Strong systems-thinking mindset with curiosity around tooling, workflows, scalability, and creative operations
• Strong experience in graphics, motion, video, and animation
• Proven ability to work with and influence stakeholders across a business
• Experience working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Strong sense of ownership, proactiveness, and accountability
• A clear interest in design leadership and team development
• Curiosity and drive to continuously improve, both personally and at a team level
  
  

Tools & Skills
Must-have:

• Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Premiere Pro, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Experience experimenting with AI-assisted creative workflows and tools (e.g. Claude Design, OpenAI tools, Canva AI, Runway, generative media platforms)
• Figma
• Canva
• After Effects
• Premiere Pro
• AI features of all the above
• Systems Thinking
• Copywriting & excellent proofreading skills

Nice to have:

• Exposure to coding, creative development, automation, or technical creative tooling
• Experience building or experimenting with modular creative systems, AI agents, or automation workflows

How to Apply
Thank you for your interest in joining Ecologi as our Senior Designer (Multidisciplinary)!
As part of your application, please submit:

• Your CV
• A cover letter
• A portfolio showcasing your most relevant creative work (a PDF or online portfolio is fine).

Your portfolio should include examples of:

• Brand and campaign design – Examples of work that demonstrates strong creative thinking, visual storytelling, and brand consistency across multiple channels. Pease clearly note in your portfolio which creatives are AI-enabled vs. not as we would like to see both.
• Multimedia and motion – Examples of motion graphics, video, animation, social content, or multimedia projects that you've designed or produced.
• AI-assisted creative workflows – We'd love to see examples of how you've used AI tools (such as Claude, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Firefly, Canva AI, or similar) as part of your creative process. Please include a short explanation of how AI contributed to the final outcome, and again, please clearly note in your portfolio which creatives are AI-enabled vs. not as we would like to see both.
• Design systems and scalability – Examples of templates, creative systems, automation, or processes you've developed that improved efficiency or enabled others to create high-quality branded content.
• Creative leadership (if applicable) – Examples of leading projects, mentoring designers, introducing new creative processes, or influencing the direction of a brand or design function.

We're looking for someone who combines exceptional creative craft with curiosity, systems thinking, and a passion for using emerging technologies to help evolve how creative teams work. We encourage you to highlight work that demonstrates not only what you created, but how you approached the challenge and the impact it had.