Senior Merch Graphic Designer →

Beyondstudios; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Beyond Studios is seeking a Senior Merch Graphic Designer who loves turning ideas into wearable merchandise. You’ll lead from concept to finished collection, crafting graphics for tees, hoodies, hats, and accessories while ensuring brand identity stays fresh and culture-forward.

You’ll collaborate with Creative Directors, push the design direction, and own projects end-to-end with minimal hand-holding, delivering production-ready artwork for high-quality garments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional design experience, with merchandise/apparel work.
• Exceptional portfolio showing advanced graphic design craft.
• Expert typography, composition, color, image-making, and graphic development skills.
• Proficiency in Illustrator and Photoshop; working knowledge of InDesign and Figma.
• Ability to design across multiple visual styles.
• Understanding of how a 2D design becomes a physical product.
• Experience with apparel graphics and production is preferred.
• Strong communication, presentation, and organization.

Responsibilities

• Concept and design merchandise collections from start to finish.
• Create graphics across tees, hoodies, hats, outerwear, accessories, packaging, and products.
• Turn brand identities into original, elevated merchandise.
• Develop collection concepts, visuals, moodboards, typography, illustrations, treatments, and decks.
• Design across aesthetics while maintaining strong craft.
• Design considering garment, embroidery, print techniques, washes, labels, hardware, and packaging.
• Collaborate with Creative Directors to push direction.
• Own projects and execute with minimal hand-holding.
• Prepare production-ready artwork with production teams.
• Move between large collections and fast-turn requests.
• Bring new references and a cultural awareness of fashion/music/arts.

Skills

Typography

Graphic design

Brand graphics

Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

Figma

Merchandise design

Production/print

Concept development

Communication/presentation

Merchandise from concept to finish

Tools

Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

Figma

Job description

Beyond Studios is looking for a Senior Merch Graphic Designer obsessed with making things people actually want to wear.

You’ll work across some of the biggest brands in culture, turning ideas, references, and brand worlds into merchandise that feels unexpected, culturally relevant, and undeniably good.

This is a highly hands‑on design role. You should be just as comfortable building the concept for an entire collection as you are obsessing over the typography on a tee, distressing a graphic, developing a patch, or figuring out exactly how something should be embroidered, printed, washed, or constructed.

We’re looking for someone with exceptional design craft, incredible taste, and a deep understanding of merchandise and apparel. someone who can take a project from a blank page to a finished collection.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Concept and design merchandise collections from start to finish.
• Create graphics across tees, hoodies, hats, outerwear, accessories, packaging, and physical products.
• Turn brand identities and cultural references into merchandise that feels original, exciting, and elevated from traditional corporate swag.
• Develop collection concepts, visual directions, moodboards, graphics, typography, illustrations, treatments, and presentation decks.
• Design across different aesthetics and brands while maintaining a strong point of view and high level of craft.
• Think beyond the front of a T-shirt, considering garment, fabrication, placement, trims, embroidery, print techniques, washes, labels, hardware, and packaging as part of the design.
• Work closely with Creative Directors and ACDs to take creative direction and push it further.
• Own your projects and execute at a senior level with minimal hand-holding.
• Prepare production‑ready artwork and work with production teams to make sure the final physical product lives up to the design.
• Move between larger collection builds and fast‑turn creative requests without sacrificing quality.
• Bring new references, ideas, techniques, and an obsessive awareness of what is happening across fashion, music, sports, entertainment, art, and culture.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• 4+ years of professional design experience, with significant experience designing merchandise, apparel, or culturally driven consumer products.
• An exceptional portfolio of real, executed work demonstrating advanced graphic design craft and a clear understanding of merchandise.
• Expert‑level typography, composition, color, image‑making, and graphic development skills.
• Deep proficiency in Illustrator and Photoshop, with working knowledge of InDesign and Figma.
• The ability to create across multiple visual styles rather than relying on one signature aesthetic.
• Strong understanding of how a 2D design becomes a physical product.
• Experience with apparel graphics, print techniques, embroidery, garment treatments, trims, or production is strongly preferred.
• The ability to concept not just execute someone else’s idea.
• Strong communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
• The ability to work quickly, take feedback, iterate, and keep pushing until the work feels finished.
• A genuine obsession with design and culture and a strong instinct for what people would actually want to wear.

PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING

This is not a general graphic design position. We are specifically looking for designers with significant professional experience creating merchandise and apparel graphics.

Your portfolio is the most important part of your application. It should clearly demonstrate senior‑level design craft, original thinking, and real merchandise/apparel work. Applications without a portfolio, or portfolios that do not demonstrate relevant professional experience, will not be considered.

Knowing how to put a logo on a T‑shirt isn’t enough.

We want designers who know how to turn an idea into something people need to own.