2027 Summer Intern: Design Intern

About the role

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Create high quality brand design solutions by directly executing design and leveraging internal/external design resources
• Sketch and articulate creative thinking
• Partner across several types of design projects
• Execute comprehensive brand design and graphic design projects across Global Food and Global Beverage portfolios
• Drive design thinking from ideation through concept development, refinement, and execution
• 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
• Work cross-functionally throughout the center to support Innovation and Design
• Collaborate, ideate and construct ideas within a team-based design environment
• Illuminate ideas and visualize design stories across a variety of media

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in design with strong portfolio demonstrating graphic/brand design
• Background in packaging design and brand design with 360 identities (preferred)
• 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
• Passionate, motivated and extremely creative
• Graduate with bachelor's degree within one (1) year of internship completion
• Indefinite right to work in the United States
• Portfolio link required on resume

Pay

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 when determining actual starting salary for positions. Hourly pay for our campus hires is pre-determined and non-negotiable.

Benefits

We love to convert our interns to full time opportunities! 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.

Location

New York, New York