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Print Graphic Designer

Petco 🇦🇹 7100 Neusiedl am See, Austria

Onsite $66,000 - $99,000 Full-time Mid-level

The Print Graphic Designer will be responsible for developing fresh, innovative, and trend-right prints, patterns, graphics, and surface designs for the company's Owned Brands portfolio across various categories. This role involves translating trends and brand direction into compelling artwork while ensuring technical readiness for manufacturing.

Responsibilities

  • Graphic & Print Design Creation: Develop original prints, patterns, icons, illustrations, and graphic assets across multiple categories
  • Translate trends, cultural cues, and brand direction into fresh, compelling artwork that feels exclusive and on-brand
  • Tailor graphics for multiple brand aesthetics and demographic targets within the Owned Brands portfolio
  • Trend & Inspiration Development: Research market trends, color stories, cultural influences, material/print techniques, and competitive design activity
  • Build inspiration boards, seasonal print stories, and category-specific graphic direction to influence product creation
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Designers to bring graphic concepts to life across product forms, materials, and packaging
  • Partner with Product Innovation to ensure timely delivery of artwork, tech packs, specs, and revisions
  • Ensure graphic assets support Merchandising goals, product positioning, and brand architecture
  • Technical Excellence & Production Readiness: Prepare final artwork files, repeat patterns, color separations, and print-ready specifications for suppliers
  • Ensure graphics meet manufacturing requirements (print methods, fabrications, substrates, scale, color accuracy)
  • Review samples (digital and physical) for quality, execution fidelity, and brand consistency
  • Speed, Agility & Operational Discipline: Manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
  • Deliver artwork packages, revisions, and approvals in tight timelines without sacrificing creativity or detail
  • Proactively identify workflow efficiencies that accelerate design-to-sample timelines

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in graphic or print design
  • Comprehensive understanding of fashion and textile design history, evolution and current application of iconic prints
  • 3-6 years of experience in print/graphic design, preferably in retail, consumer products, apparel, hardlines, or lifestyle brands
  • Proven capability to balance creative, trend-forward ideas with commercial retail needs
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating original prints, patterns, illustrations, and brand-consistent artwork
  • Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign); knowledge of color theory and print production
  • Understanding of manufacturing processes for softlines and/or hardlines (screen print, sublimation, woven labels, embossing, UV print, etc.)
  • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable juggling multiple fast-moving projects
  • Strong sense of trend, culture, and consumer behavior; ability to adapt styles across multiple brands

Benefits

  • Health and financial benefits
  • 401K
  • Incentives
  • PTO
  • Equal Opportunity Employer

Key Skills

Graphic design Print design Fashion design Textile design Iconic prints Adobe Creative Suite Color theory Print production Manufacturing processes Softlines Hardlines Screen print Sublimation Woven labels Embossing UV print Trend Culture Consumer behavior Multiple brands Inspiration boards Seasonal print stories Graphic direction Product creation Cross-functional collaboration Product designers Product innovation Artwork Tech packs Specs Revisions Merchandising Product positioning Brand architecture Technical excellence Production readiness Final artwork files Repeat patterns Color separations Print-ready specifications Manufacturing requirements Quality Execution fidelity Brand consistency Speed Agility Operational discipline Multiple projects Fast-paced environment Shifting priorities Artwork packages Revisions Approvals Workflow efficiencies Design-to-sample timelines

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