Experienced Graphic Designer – Athletics & Ecommerce

Full-Time | Corvallis, Oregon

$19.50–$22.00/hour

Design merchandise people actually wear.

Corvallis Custom is looking for an experienced graphic designer to join our team and create apparel and merchandise for collegiate athletic brands, student-athletes, organizations, and ecommerce partners.

This is a hands-on creative position where you'll take products from concept to launch. You'll create original merchandise designs, develop product artwork and mockups, work within collegiate licensing and brand requirements, prepare production-ready files, and help turn your designs into finished products sold through our ecommerce stores.

We're especially interested in designers with experience in athletic apparel, collegiate merchandise, sports graphics, licensed merchandise, streetwear, screen printing, or retail product design.

Previous experience creating licensed collegiate merchandise or working with collegiate licensing is a major advantage.

This is not an entry-level design position. We're looking for someone with the experience and judgment to independently produce professional creative work. We don't expect you to already know our ecommerce platforms or internal systems—we can teach those.

Corvallis Custom is an established Oregon printing and merchandise company producing custom apparel, print, signage, promotional products, and ecommerce merchandise.

We work with collegiate athletic programs, student-athletes, organizations, businesses, and other partners to create products and branded ecommerce experiences.

We're a small team, which means this position offers something that's harder to find in a large creative department:
ownership.

You won't simply create a graphic and hand it to another department. You'll see your work move from an idea on your screen through approval, production, ecommerce, and ultimately onto products people purchase and wear.

A major part of this position is creating merchandise.

You'll:

• Create original apparel and merchandise designs for collegiate athletic brands, student-athletes, organizations, and ecommerce partners.
• Develop concepts based on brand guidelines, customer direction, merchandise trends, and the intended audience.
• Design within established athletic and collegiate brand systems while creating fresh, original products.
• Create collections and groups of products that work together visually.
• Adapt designs across garments, colors, print locations, and product types.
• Create professional product mockups and presentation graphics.
• Revise designs based on athlete, partner, customer, and licensing feedback.
• Help continually improve the quality and commercial appeal of the products we offer.

We're looking for someone who understands that designing merchandise is different from simply creating a good-looking graphic. The finished design has to work on the product, meet production requirements, represent the brand correctly, and ultimately be something customers want to purchase.

You'll help take designs from concept to something we can manufacture.

Responsibilities include:

• Preparing production-ready artwork.
• Working appropriately with vector and raster artwork.
• Managing colors, typography, placement, sizing, and artwork specifications.
• Designing with screen printing and other production processes in mind.
• Preparing artwork for different garment colors and configurations.
• Creating ecommerce-ready product imagery and mockups.
• Maintaining organized working and production files.
• Reviewing final artwork before production.

Experience designing for screen printing, apparel decoration, or merchandise production is highly desirable.

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