Graphic Designer

Partners Coffee•New York, NY

8d•$60,000 - $68,000•Onsite

About The Position

Partners Coffee is seeking a deeply creative and detail-obsessed graphic designer to join their team at their Greenpoint office and coffee lab. This role is ideal for someone excited by the opportunity to build on the brand's visual identity during a period of significant growth. The graphic designer will help steward and evolve the Partners Coffee brand, exploring new concepts and methodologies while strengthening existing foundations. The position involves creating marketing assets across all touchpoints, contributing to creative concepts, and bringing projects to life. The role sits within the marketing team but supports all departments, with involvement in packaging, retail design, trade show materials, and more. The office is located near McCarren and McGolrick Parks and includes a coffee lab for experimentation and content capture, situated above the tech and warehousing facility.

Requirements

2-5 years of design experience, ideally in a fast-moving DTC brand environment.
Strong portfolio showing packaging and print work (mandatory).
Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop).
Real print production knowledge: substrates, CMYK vs. spot color, dielines, pre-press, working with printers.
Advanced Photoshop skills for product mockups, smart objects, displacement maps, compositing, lighting, and shadow work.
Motion graphics capabilities.
Ability to transition between polished brand work and fast turnaround requests without compromising quality.
Highly organized, self-directed, and comfortable owning projects end-to-end.
A genuine interest in specialty coffee and packaging design.

Nice To Haves

Photography experience.
Experience designing within Shopify, Klaviyo, or Canva template systems.
Video retouching and editing skills.

Responsibilities

Design retail packaging across bags, cans, boxes, and secondary packaging.
Build production-ready files including dielines, color separations, bleeds, and pre-press specs.
Manage communication with printers and vendors through proofing and press approvals.
Ensure labeling compliance with net weight, nutrition panels, certifications (USDA Organic, Fair Trade), and barcodes.
Build photorealistic product mockups in Photoshop for internal review, sales presentations, retailer pitches, and e-commerce imagery.
Design assets for email, web, paid social, and organic social media.
Support e-commerce with product imagery, banners, landing page graphics, and lifecycle campaign visuals.
Design in-cafe materials such as menu boards, signage, merchandise, and seasonal promotions.
Maintain brand guidelines, type system, color palette, and asset library.
Ensure brand consistency across all channels and touchpoints.
Champion innovation that drives growth and evolution while staying true to brand identity.
Design sales and wholesale collateral including line sheets, sell sheets, one-pagers, and pitch decks.
Build trade show and event materials such as booth graphics and print collateral.
Create templated systems for the sales team to update independently.