2027 Summer Intern: Design Intern

PepsiCo; New York, Chicago, Plano (NY, IL, TX); On-site; USD 29,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

PepsiCo Design is seeking a Brand Design Intern in New York to collaborate on brand design and graphic design projects for Global Food and Beverage portfolios. You will contribute to ideation, concept development, and execution, leveraging sketches to tell compelling design stories.

You will work with teams across functions to drive innovative brand experiences, supported by a strong portfolio and a bachelors degree in design.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelors degree in design with a strong portfolio demonstrating graphic/brand design.
• Strong sketching skills and ability to communicate concepts.
• Able to work cross-functionally in the center to support Innovation and Design.
• Graduate with bachelors degree within one year of internship completion.
• US work authorization is required.

Responsibilities

• Partner across several types of design projects and execution of comprehensive brand design and graphic design projects across our Global Food and Global Beverage portfolios.
• Drive design thinking from ideation through concept development, refinement, and execution.
• Create high quality brand design solutions by directly executing design and leveraging internal/external design resources.
• The Designer must be able to sketch and articulate his/her creative thinking.

Skills

Graphic/brand design

Packaging design background

Industrial design basics

Sketching skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Design thinking

Storyboarding

Visual asset creation

Communication of concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in design

Job description

Overview

At PepsiCo, you'll find the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape what's next. As one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, our beloved brands—including Gatorade, Lay’s, and Quaker—help create smiles with every sip and bite. Behind our products is a connected system that starts with how we source and grow ingredients alongside farmers and extends to how we make, move, and deliver products while driving positive impact for our business and communities.

At the heart of PepsiCo are our people: professionals who bring curiosity, drive, and fresh thinking, working together to turn ideas into action. Across functions, teams, and markets, we collaborate to solve challenges, unlock new opportunities, and create meaningful impact for our consumers, customers, and communities.

No matter your role, you’ll be part of a connected community where your contributions matter, your voice is heard, and your development is supported. With opportunities to grow, belong, and smile, PepsiCo offers more than a place to build your career—it offers the chance to help create what’s next.

SMILE AT WHAT’S NEXT

At PepsiCo, you’ll find the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape what’s next. As one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, our beloved brands—including Gatorade, Lay’s, and Quaker—help create smiles with every sip and bite. Behind our products is a connected system that starts with how we source and grow ingredients alongside farmers and extends to how we make, move, and deliver products while driving positive impact for our business and communities.

At the heart of PepsiCo are our people: professionals who bring curiosity, drive, and fresh thinking, working together to turn ideas into action. Across functions, teams, and markets, we collaborate to solve challenges, unlock new opportunities, and create meaningful impact for our consumers, customers, and communities.

No matter your role, you’ll be part of a connected community where your contributions matter, your voice is heard, and your development is supported. With opportunities to grow, belong, and smile, PepsiCo offers more than a place to build your career—it offers the chance to help create what’s next.

Responsibilities

Functional Description:

At PepsiCo Design, we have a saying: “We’re crazy enough to think we can inspire the future.” This is what drives us, in everything we imagine, develop, and execute.

Design is a strategic global function for PepsiCo that drives business value by leading innovation, creating experiences and brand engagements. We are one of the first major food & beverage companies to integrate multiple design disciplines—brand design, design thinking, industrial design, design strategy, front-end innovation—into a particular group. Our goal is clear: to connect PepsiCo’s food & beverage portfolios with today’s hyper-connected, networked users and consumers hungry for meaningful, authentic, and relevant brand experiences across multiple touchpoints and regions of the world.

What you can expect:

The Brand Design Intern is responsible for partnering across several types of design projects and execution of comprehensive brand design and graphic design projects across our Global Food and Global Beverage portfolios. Successful candidates will demonstrate superior ability to drive design thinking from ideation through concept development, refinement, and execution. Create high quality brand design solutions by directly executing design and leveraging internal/external design resources. The Designer must be able to sketch and articulate his/her creative thinking.

Roles available in the following locations:

New York, New York

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in design with strong portfolio demonstrating graphic/brand design
• Ideally, he/she has a background in packaging design and brand design with 360 identities.
• Will have a strong understanding of graphic design as well as a good basic understanding of industrial design
• Great sketching skills and idea development techniques to create and communicate concepts
• Ability to work cross-functionally throughout the center to support Innovation and 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
• Storyboarding -Creating story flows, planning transitions, mapping out movements
• Design / Illustration –Creating all kinds of visual assets and layouts in a wide variety of illustrative styles.
• Direction –Researching complex subjects, developing treatments, keeping each project on time and within budget.
• Passionate, motivated and extremely creative

Minimum Qualifications - Each candidate is expected to:

• Graduate with bachelor's degree within one (1) year of internship completion.
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.

Please list the following on your resume:

• Link to your portfolio

Compensation

• The expected compensation hourly pay ranges for hires into our 2027 campus intern openings is $21.09-$34.00 hourly.
• Role, degree discipline, degree level, and location are part of the process whendeterminingactual starting salary for positions.
• Hourly pay for our campus hires is pre-determined and non-negotiable.
• We love to convert our interns tofull timeopportunities! Our full-time positions have a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

EEO Statement

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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