Designer - Print Specialist

Benefits

Competitive salary
Dental insurance
Flexible schedule
Free food & snacks
Health insurance
Opportunity for advancement
Paid time off
Training & development
Vision insurance

What You’ll Do

• Create new trading card sets and products from concept through print delivery, including themes, visual systems, set architecture, card templates, inserts, packaging, and production-ready files.
• Design net-new card products and release concepts, developing visual directions that feel premium, collectible, ownable, and aligned with the Pulse brand.
• Think systematically about each release, building cohesive product worlds that can scale across card designs, inserts, packaging, marketing assets, digital touchpoints, retail needs, and future extensions.
• Iterate on existing sets and product lines, refining layouts, improving visual systems, expanding insert concepts, and helping evolve successful products into stronger future releases.
• Bring co-branded partnership deals to life through card design, packaging, and related product creative, translating partner requirements into compelling collector-facing products that still feel distinct, polished, and ownable.
• Design base cards, autograph layouts, chase inserts, parallels, packaging elements, and product presentation materials.
• Prepare production-ready design handoff, including print files, templates, dielines, bleeds, color setup, finishes, and vendor-ready assets.
• Partner with the Creative Director, product, marketing, and leadership teams to translate release goals, partner needs, and business priorities into clear creative solutions.
• Support brand and marketing creative as needed, including launch assets, web/e-commerce graphics, email, social, retail materials, and promotional design connected to product releases.
• Review final deliverables to ensure they meet brand standards, collector expectations, product requirements, and print production standards.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of professional design experience in-house, studio, agency, or product-focused creative environments, with a portfolio showing strong visual craft, print design, concept development, and production execution.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Strong experience designing for print, including bleeds, dielines, CMYK workflows, spot colors, foils, stocks, finishes, proofing, prepress, and vendor handoff.
• Strong visual design skills, including typography, hierarchy, layout, composition, texture, color, and attention to detail.
• A systems-minded approach to design, with the ability to create cohesive visual languages that can extend across full card sets, multiple product types, packaging formats, marketing channels, and partner applications.
• Ability to balance consistency and flexibility, ensuring each release has a strong identity while still working within production, brand, and business requirements.
• Comfort working across fast-moving product cycles, shifting timelines, and multiple releases while maintaining a high standard of quality.
• Strong creative judgment, with the ability to balance premium design, collector appeal, partner requirements, production realities, and business goals.
• Ability to take direction, contribute ideas, iterate quickly, and bring a high level of craft to both concept development and final execution.

Bonus Points

• Experience designing trading cards, collectibles, packaging, licensed products, sports products, entertainment products, or consumer goods.
• A deep understanding and interest in frontier AI models/agents, and how to apply them to increase workflow consistency and efficiency.
• A strong understanding of sports, trading card culture, collector behavior, chase mechanics, parallels, inserts, autographs, and what hobby audiences notice.
• Experience with co-branded or licensed partnership work.
• Motion, video, or 3D skills, including After Effects, Premiere, Blender, Cinema 4D, or similar tools.

Role Details

• Location: Hybrid in our New Jersey office, or remote for the right candidate
• Reports to: Creative Director