Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are
We are a creatively driven team that leverages the power of Design Thinking to solve brand and business problems that drive meaningful value and growth. Our teams mission is to lead the innovation agendas in order to accelerate PepsiCos Global brands and businesses to transform beyond its core. We innovate with intent; to solve real problems, for real people, in the real world. We innovate to incite positive change for people, brands, business and the world around us.

What Youll Do
The Associate Brand Design Manager is responsible for execution of comprehensive brand design and graphic design projects for our Ecommerce/Hive division. Successful candidates will demonstrate superior ability to drive design thinking from ideation through concept development, refinement, and execution. This role will create high quality brand design solutions by directly executing design and leveraging internal/external design resources. The main objective of this role is to help execute major brand design projects, strategies, and innovations. This means assisting in the planning, organization and implementation of consistent design principles and processes to ensure that the design, strategy and production guardrails are met, as well as delivering on the consumer promise from a Brand and solution perspective.

Accountabilities:

* Great sketching skills and idea development techniques to create and communicate concepts

* Participate in design research and synthesis leading to development of total brand identities - from packaging, visual identify to total brand experience.

* This role partners closely with cross-functional teams and external partners to deliver quality brand design solutions with a mind for innovation, as well as experiential and industrial design

* Collaborative, able to ideate and construct ideas within a team based design environment

* Technically solid, able to illuminate ideas and visualize design stories across a variety of media

* Synthesize design thinking and build design comprehensive storytelling to convince internal stakeholders as much as end consumers

Continue developing your Design Thinking capabilities and toolbox, to apply these methodologies in driving design projects from ideation to execution

Qualifications/Requirements

* Bachelors Degree in Communication Design, Experience Design, Brand Design, or Graphic Design required. Masters degree in a Design discipline preferred.

* Minimum 6+ years of deep brand design experience (e.g. developing strategic brands, brand packaging, brand experiences)

* Extraordinary design taste

* Advanced in using the Adobe Creative Suite software, including production of digital assets / motion graphics for social media platforms

* Experience participating in human-centered research and presenting insights to project team

* Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to work in an ambiguous and dynamic work environment; is comfortable with risk and uncertainty

* Effectively collaborate across functions in order to deliver on project plans

* Drive for results, able to influence and accomplish tasks through formal and informal channels

* Effectively communicates (verbally and written) with internal and external stakeholders across all levels.

Relocation Eligible: Not Eligible for Relocation
Job Type: Regular