Brand Designer

Our in-house design agency is a consumer-centric organization with a start-up mentality within a larger company. We're a passionate team dedicated to elevating the role of design and design thinking within PepsiCo and the broader business world. We're looking for talented and driven Branding Designers to join us in this mission.

About the Role:

As a Brand Designer, you will partner on the design and execution of projects that support several food and beverage brands in North America. You will demonstrate a superior ability to generate inspirational design solutions, driving from ideation to execution with quality and strategic excellence. This role offers the opportunity to build upon existing capabilities and broaden your functional expertise as you drive brands through all consumer touchpoints.

Responsibilities:

• Design Project Management: Partner across disciplines within PepsiCo and external suppliers to ensure design assets are developed and delivered with quality, value, and on-time. Inform and align stakeholders throughout the creative process, regularly reviewing project status with leadership to ensure expectations are met.
• Brand Design Development: Support the visual identity for the brand portfolio, collaborating with design leaders across brand, product, packaging, equipment, marketing, and advertising. Generate creative design proposals (visions, scenarios, concepts) to visualize the desired output and share with internal and external team members. Participate in research activities and effectively translate customer needs into actionable design strategy, executing those requirements into design solutions. Drive final design recommendations, decisions, and design approval to enable artwork execution/production phases. Ensure thorough consideration of all project variables and that the final solution performs as planned.
• External Design Network: Support the PepsiCo Design & Innovation organization in building and cultivating a robust external design network.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design or a minimum 5 years of hands-on brand and packaging/graphic design experience.
• Full-time agency-side and/or client-side experience.
• Advanced experience with Adobe Creative Suite software (Photoshop skills are a must).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong conceptual design skills, package design, and design strategy experience.
• 360 brand design experience (i.e., print, packaging, digital, environmental, experiential).
• Extraordinary design taste and expertise with an excellent sense of design trends.
• Illustration skills highly preferred.
• Systems design thinker (packaging architecture and visual identity systems).
• Ability to work in an agile, dynamic work environment with a start-up mentality (comfortable with risk and uncertainty).
• Strong stakeholder relationship management – effectively influence at all levels in the organization, across regions and functions.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with internal and external business partners.
• Collaborative and works well with others to deliver results; keeps others informed to avoid unnecessary surprises.
• Ability to multitask. Excellent time and project management skills to meet project deadlines.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $50 to $65 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.