2025 Summer Intern: Design Intern

Overview

Job Title : 2025 Summer Intern : Brand Design

PepsiCo is a playground for curious people. We invite thinkers, doers, and changemakers to champion innovation, take calculated risks, and challenge the status quo.

From executives to leaders on the frontline, we're excited about the future. We take chances. Together, we dare to make the world a better place.

Our associates are the magic ingredient. Each of them plays an integral role in helping create deep connections between people and our products.

Think about your last group celebration : Chances are, one of our iconic brands was by your side. At PepsiCo, you're invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these products-which are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day.

A career at PepsiCo means working in a culture where everyone's invited. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where you're from, you can influence the people around you and the world at large.

By showing up, you'll have the opportunity to learn, develop, and grow our unique skill sets at work. Our supportive teams can fuel your professional goals to make a global impact.

Responsibilities

Functional Description :

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.

What you can expect :

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.

Create high quality brand design solutions by directly executing design and leveraging internal / external design resources.

The Designer must be able to sketch and articulate his / her creative thinking.

Roles available in the following locations :

New York, New York

Compensation & Benefits :

• The expected compensation hourly pay ranges for hires into our 2025 campus intern openings is $21.50 - $40.19 / hour
• 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.
• We love to convert our interns to full time opportunities! Our full-time positions have a comprehensive benefits package that include :
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement. In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers 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.

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Qualifications

What we're looking for :

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in design with strong portfolio demonstrating graphic / brand design
• Ideally, he / she has a background in packaging design and brand design with 360 identities.
• Will have a 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
• 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.
• Passionate, motivated and extremely creative

Minimum Qualifications - Each candidate is expected to :

• Graduate with bachelor's degree within one (1) year of internship completion.
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
• Please list the following on your resume :
• Link to your portfolio

EEO Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer : Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.

Please view our Pay Transparency Statement