Brand Designer - Cape Town HQ at PepsiCo

Responsibilities

PepsiCo is one of the world’s leading food & beverage companies in the world.

In our Global design team, we count over 180 designers and thinkers from world class agencies and fortune 500 companies.

Brand Design in PepsiCo is very hands-on. We make stuff, work with designers, brand teams, consumer insights, media, ecommerce teams and engineers.

We’re especially fond of quick thinkers, problem solvers and good communicators with a well-developed sense of form, proportion, color and materials both for graphic and product executions

If that’s you, please keep reading.

The Brand Designer is responsible for the execution of local and regional brand design projects and graphic design within the food and snacks category. Successful candidates will demonstrate superior ability to drive design projects from ideation with senior design managers, thru concept development, refinement, and execution.

Creating high quality brand design solutions by directly executing design and leveraging internal/external design resources. The designer must be able to Visualize and articulate his/her creative thinking.The main objective of this role is to execute brand design projects across a specific product portfolio. This means planning, organizing, and implementing consistent design principles and production processes to ensure that the design/production guardrails are met.

Brand designers: 

Takes ownership of the visual identity for specific brands in the portfolio, working in collaboration with the Design Manager, Design Director, brand teams and marketing.

They work closely with global GSG for approvals and collaboration.

Generate creative design proposals (visions, scenarios, concepts) visualize the desired output and share it with internal and external team members.

Participates in research activities and effectively translates customer needs into actionable design requirements and apply those requirements into design solutions. Responsible for driving to 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 will perform as planned.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of deep brand design experience
• Graphic designer Degree or similar 
• English language proficient (written and spoken)
• Extraordinary design taste and skill
• Extraordinary ability in using the Adobe Creative Suite software ( 3D software is a Plus)
• Ability to work in dynamic work environment; is comfortable with risk and uncertainty
• Effectively communicates with internal & external stakeholders across all levels
• Works well with others to deliver results; keeps others informed to avoid unnecessary surprises
• Capability to develop and visualize concepts through hand sketching or computer software
• An incurable curiosity relating to all design things
• Great passion for new and creative trends
• Highly collaborative
• Team oriented, brainstorming sessions or presenting in front of other team members
• Ability to work smoothly with a fast-paced interdisciplinary team
• Demonstrate clear “point of view” relating to their design
• Open and optimistic with entrepreneurship
• Can work under pressure
• Portfolio required