Job Description
Hand-Drawn Illustrator — Retail / Cannabis Packaging
The Sticky Trap (FM Holdings LLC) · Michigan · On-site · [Full-time / Part-time]
We're a design house that brands cannabis and consumer products — logos, packaging, apparel, merch.
We're looking for an illustrator whose hand-drawn art can own a shelf: characters, caricatures, and striking scenes that make someone pick the product up. Your art ships — on jars, bags, shirts, and stickers people actually buy and keep.
This is a hands-on, in-studio role. You'll sketch in front of clients, think out loud in design meetings, and — because we build in public — show your process on camera for our channels. If your best work only happens hidden behind a screen, this isn't the seat.
What you'll do
- Hand-draw original art for retail packaging — characters, caricatures, scenes, label and wrap illustration
- Take work from rough sketch to print-ready file
- Present concepts and sketch live in client meetings
- Keep our artwork library organized and reusable
- Show your process on camera for social content, with the team
What you need
- A portfolio that proves the hand-drawn skill. Show us the work — it beats a résumé or a degree.
- Fluency in Adobe: Illustrator (vector for print), and Photoshop
- Comfortable working on Windows
- Print discipline — our deadlines are tight and unforgiving; a misspelled strain name or an off-register file costs real money
- 21+ and comfortable creating cannabis-industry artwork
Bonus points
- A distinct, recognizable style you can talk about
- Range beyond illustration — lettering, 3D, motion, print finishing — anything that widens what we can make
- Up for being part of our content — you'd rather show the craft than hide it
What you get
- Pay: $45 to $60k · paid sick time ·
- Your work on real products, out in the wild
- A reel and an audience you build through our content — not just ours
To apply
Send your portfolio (link or PDF) and a couple lines on your style and method. Include one piece you'd put on a product — and one line on why it'd sell. Applications without a portfolio won't be reviewed.
FM Holdings LLC, dba The Sticky Trap, is an equal-opportunity employer. This is an at-will position.