Role Overview
Join a growing e-commerce and consumer goods company as a Custom Product Graphic Designer. In this part-time remote role, you'll transform customer logos and brand assets into visually engaging designs for pre-existing product templates and dielines, collaborating with the Brand Director and Sales team to support custom orders without direct client interaction.
Schedule & Setup
- Type: Long-term, Part-Time Remote Contractor
- Hours: 20 hours per week
- Working Hours: Primary availability during Eastern Time (EST) business hours Monday - Friday, between 8:00 AM-5:00 PM EST
- Communication & Responsiveness: Communication is primarily managed via Slack (same-business-day response expected during working days). File sharing via Google Drive and WeTransfer.
Core Responsibilities
- Asset & Brief Review: Analyze customer logos, brand guidelines, color palettes, artwork, reference materials, and creative briefs.
- Graphic Application: Apply artwork accurately onto existing Adobe Illustrator dielines and templates.
- Concept Development: Build custom visual elements—including supporting vector backgrounds, patterns, textures, layouts, and occasional original illustrations—to reflect the customer's brand.
- 3D Visual Consideration: Consider how flat vector artwork renders, aligns, and appears across multiple pieces and surfaces once the physical product is assembled.
- Proofing & Revisions: Prepare clear, customer-facing digital proofs and efficiently incorporate internal and customer feedback.
- Production Handoff: Prepare accurate, organized, and finalized artwork for internal production review.
- Project Management: Manage multiple design projects simultaneously at various stages, meet agreed deadlines, and promptly communicate questions or asset concerns.
Requirements & Qualifications
Must-Have:
- Portfolio: A strong graphic design portfolio showcasing vector artwork, merchandise, signage, apparel, or product mockups.
- Software Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and strong vector creation/editing skills.
- Design Judgment: Excellent typography, composition, color theory, and layout judgment.
- Resourcefulness: Proven ability to turn a limited collection of customer assets into a complete, visually engaging design.
- Detail-Oriented: Exceptional attention to detail when working within strict dimensions, templates, dielines, and production constraints.
- Communication: Fluent written English and clear professional communication skills.
- EST Availability: Reliable availability and responsiveness during Eastern Time working hours.
Preferred / Advantageous:
- Experience in packaging design, dielines, masking, or template-based graphic work.
- Experience designing for physical products, promotional merchandise, or signage.
- Understanding of basic commercial printing or print-production requirements.
- Experience creating customer-facing product proofs or mockups.
- Ability to work comfortably across multiple visual styles and brand guidelines.
Ideal Working Style:
- Creative, practical, organized, and dependable.
- Comfortable working within established constraints without needing every detail mapped out.
- Receptive to feedback and comfortable making revisions.
- Able to work independently with limited oversight as brand familiarity grows.
Design Assessment: Finalists may be asked to complete a design exercise representative of the role prior to hiring.
Independent Contractor Perks
- Permanent work from home
- Immediate hiring
- Health Insurance Coverage for eligible locations (for full-time roles only)
Note
- Please click the Apply button to complete your application, including the assessment questions, technical check, and voice recording. Your hourly pay rate will be established based on your performance in the application process; submissions with all requirements fulfilled will receive priority review.
