Graphic Designer

Partners Coffee is an independently owned, small-batch specialty coffee roaster headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. Since opening, we’ve grown alongside the neighborhood, developing a thriving wholesale business, comprehensive education facilities, and four cafes across our amazing city. Commitment to coffee integrity and community is at the center of our practice. We believe specialty coffee is for everyone, in New York — and everywhere. We’re looking for a deeply creative, detail-obsessed graphic designer to join our team at our Greenpoint office and coffee lab. This role is ideal for someone who is excited by the chance to build on the brand’s visual identity as we continue to scale. During this time of significant growth, you will have the opportunity to help steward and evolve the Partners Coffee brand — exploring new concepts and methodologies, and strengthening our foundations. You will create marketing assets across all touchpoints, contributing to creative concepts and bringing projects to life. If you are enthusiastic about taking the seed of an idea, identifying a clear design vision that aligns with the heart of our brand identity, and executing effectively to create work you’re excited about, we want to hear from you. While the role sits within our marketing team, the work supports all departments. You will have a hand and a voice in all of our packaging, retail design in our cafes, trade show materials, and beyond. Our office, situated just blocks from McCarren and McGolrick Parks, is home base for our coffee lab, outfitted with everything you need to make coffee, experiment with extraction, and capture content in-house. This space sits atop our tech and warehousing facility to create the ultimate coffee clubhouse, pulling espresso shots and taking ping-pong breaks, all while sitting in the sunlight and watching the Greenpoint neighborhood go by.

Responsibilities
Packaging & Print Production

Design retail packaging across bags, cans, boxes, and secondary packaging

Build production-ready files: dielines, color separations, bleeds, pre-press specs

Manage back-and-forth with printers and vendors through proofing and press approvals

Keep labeling compliant: net weight, nutrition panels, certifications (USDA Organic, Fair Trade), barcodes

Build photorealistic product mockups in Photoshop, bags, cans, boxes, shelf sets, and lifestyle scenes, for internal review, sales presentations, retailer pitches, and e-commerce imagery before physical samples exist

Brand & Digital Graphics

Design assets for email, web, paid social, and organic social

Support e-commerce with product imagery, banners, landing page graphics, and lifecycle campaign visuals

Design in-cafe materials: menu boards, signage, merch, seasonal promos

Brand Stewardship

Maintain our brand guidelines, type system, color palette, and asset library

Keep the brand consistent across every channel and every touchpoint

Champion innovation that drives our growth and evolution while staying true to our brand identity, supporting the creative expansion of our brand as we scale.

Sales & Wholesale Collateral

Design line sheets, sell sheets, one-pagers, and pitch decks for wholesale, grocery, and corporate partnerships

Build trade show and event materials including booth graphics, signage, print collateral

Create templated systems the sales team can update on their own

Required Skills

2-5 years of design experience, ideally in a fast-moving DTC brand environment; CPG, food & beverage experience a plus.

Strong portfolio showing packaging and print work (mandatory)

Expert 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 that makes a concept look like a real product on a real shelf

Motion graphics

Ability to move between polished brand work and fast turnaround requests without losing quality

Highly organized, self-directed, and comfortable owning projects end to end

A genuine interest in specialty coffee and the world of packaging design

NICE TO HAVE

Photography experience

Experience designing within Shopify, Klaviyo, or Canva template systems

Video retouching and editing

Details & Benefits

Full-time, on-site at our Greenpoint office and coffee lab

Health, dental, and vision available after eligibility milestones

10 days vacation + 10 federal holidays

Commuter benefits

Lots of coffee to drink and take home

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