Illustrator

The opportunity

Popsa is building a library of original illustrated artwork for our printed photo books, and we need a brilliant illustrator to help us create it.

You'll work closely with our product design team to conceive and develop multiple distinct illustrative styles, producing a cohesive body of work that feels considered and consistent; a collection that looks like a set, not a series of one-offs. This is a rare opportunity to help define our the illustration language from scratch. To define a visual language that didn't exist before and see it come to life inside a product used by millions.

This is a contract role based in London. The ideal candidate will be based in London and able to work from Popsa’s Soho office on a hybrid basis.

About Popsa

Popsa is an award-winning platform that uses AI to make it easy to transform your favourite memories into something beautiful and tangible. We’re a tech company, but we also craft tangible products that bring people joy, and it’s the intersection of digital and physical makes working here unique.

Our iOS and Android apps are available in 12 languages, trusted by more than 12 million people who have created over 5 million photo books shipped to over 50 countries. With more than 350,000 five-star reviews, we’re one of the highest-rated consumer apps anywhere.

Deloitte named us one of the UK’s fastest-growing technology companies, and the Financial Times recognised Popsa among the Top 5 fastest-growing software companies in Europe.

What you'll do

• Work with the our Product Design team to define distinct illustrative styles
• Produce a consistent body of work within those styles
• Refine and iterate on artwork based on feedback from the product team and users
• Collaborate with product design to ensure finished artwork integrates beautifully into the apps
• Adapt artwork across multiple formats and aspect ratios to work beautifully across our product range

What we're looking for

• An excellent illustrator with a well-developed visual sensibility and a portfolio of work to show for it
• Experience in particular with travel illustration
• A passion for your craft
• Flexibility across styles and visual languages
• The ability to think systematically about a visual language
• Enough seniority to work with autonomy. Comfortable owning decisions, direction, and workload
• Comfortable with AI tools as part of the creative workflow
• A collaborative mindset

Nice to have

• An understanding of localisation constraints
• Experience with product or UX/UI design

Details

COMPENSATION: We're open to negotiation, depening on your experience and skill

ENGAGEMENT: This will start off as a fixed term contract for the duration of the project, with the possibility of extending to a full time rol ein future.