Jacob graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2011 and was a finalist in the Linbury Prize for Stage Design that same year. He has since been nominated for Best Set Designer in the Off West End awards, Wales Theatre awards and has exhibited his work in the Society of British Theatre Designers exhibition Make:Believe. In 2016 Jacob was awarded the National Theatre's Max Rayne Design Bursary for Emerging Artists and has gone on to design shows at the Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre, The Young Vic and The Royal Court. Current projects include Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare's Globe and For the Grace of you Go I, Theatr Clwyd.