Art Director

Planthood; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A health food company in London is seeking a mid-weight Art Director to elevate creative output across social and digital channels. The role involves collaborating with senior leadership, executing visuals across design, photography, and video, and ensuring alignment with brand standards. Ideal candidates will have midweight experience in creative roles and a strong portfolio of social-first work. This position offers real creative responsibility and a pathway to senior art direction.

Qualifications

• Experience in art direction or design-led creative role.
• Strong ability in design principles, layout, typography, and composition.
• Experience in executing ideas and contributing creatively.

Responsibilities

• Support the Creative Director in delivering social-first creative.
• Execute and elevate visual concepts across various mediums.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure brand standards.

Skills

Midweight experience in art direction

Strong portfolio of social-first visual work

Collaborative mindset

Detail-oriented

Passionate about culture and content

Job description

About Planthood

We're Planthood, one of the fastest growing health food companies and the most followed meal kit brand in the UK. Our mission is to help people live healthier lives and have a meaningful impact on the planet, by eating more plant whole foods. We do this from our own London kitchen, where we cook up irresistibly delicious food and deliver it to thousands of customers across the UK every week.

Since launching from Hilary & Will’s kitchen in 2020, the company has now cooked up over 4 million meals, featured on BBC Dragons’ Den and grown by over 300% year on year. We’re now looking for hungry and ambitious people who share our vision and values, to join our team at this exciting time in our journey.

The Role

We’re looking for a mid-weight Art Director who can help elevate our creative output across all brand touch points. You’ll support our Founder/Creative Director bring Planthood’s creative vision to life across all channels, with an initial focus on social media and digital marketing. This is a highly collaborative, hands-on role for someone confident in executing ideas and helping elevate work across design, photography, and video.

You’ll work from established creative direction, contributing ideas, shaping visuals, and ensuring content is executed beautifully and consistently – particularly in a social-first environment.

This role is ideal for someone who loves making, thrives in fast-moving creative teams, and wants to grow toward a senior art direction role.

Responsibilities

• Support the Creative Director in delivering social-first creative across all channels.
• Execute and elevate visual concepts across design, photography, and video.
• Develop mood boards, visual references, layouts, and creative treatments.
• Help plan and support shoots, from pre-production through to post.
• Create and oversee visual assets for social, campaigns, and digital platforms.
• Ensure all output aligns with Planthood’s visual identity and brand standards.
• Collaborate closely with the Head of Brand, designers, videographers, photographers, and strategists.
• Support and help raise the standard of creative execution across the team.

About You

• Midweight experience in an art direction or design-led creative role.
• Strong portfolio showing social-first, concept-driven visual work.
• Confident working across design, photography, and video.
• Solid grounding in design principles, layout, typography, and composition.
• Comfortable executing ideas as well as contributing creatively to concepts.
• Collaborative, detail-driven, and eager to learn from senior creative leadership.
• Passionate about culture, content, and how brands show up on social.

Why Join Us

• Work closely with senior leadership on ambitious brand work.
• Hands-on role with real creative responsibility.
• Opportunity to shape social-first output for a growing brand.
• Clear pathway for growth into senior art direction.

Location: Hackney, London (Hybrid)

Department: Brand and Creative

Reports to: Creative Director & Founder

How To Apply

If this role sounds like a good fit, we’d love to hear from you.

Please email the following to [e-mail] with the subject line “Art Director Application”:

• Your CV
• A portfolio or links to examples of your work, showcasing brand-led creative, campaigns, visual direction and execution (digital, social, print or motion where relevant).
• A short cover note telling us why you’re interested in this role and what excites you about working with Planthood.

Planthood is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.