San Leandro

Graphic Designer

Reports to: Sr. Brand Manager/Creative Director
Type: Full-Time
Pay: $70,000 – $80,000 per year

Join the Creative Force Behind One of California’s Most Beloved Breweries!

Drake’s Brewing is on the hunt for a bold, beer-loving Graphic Designer to bring our brand to life through killer visuals, top-notch design, and fresh, eye-catching content. We’re talking label art, merch, digital campaigns, event promos, and all things branding—if it needs to look dope, it’s in your hands.

From our hop-forward IPAs to our legendary location in West Sac (The Barn), Drake’s is all about quality, creativity, and community. We need someone who can channel that into vibrant, engaging designs that get people craving a pint (or three).

Applicant Requirements: Email a link or send us your portfolio to jobs@drakesbrewing.com along with answers to these questions:

1. Why do you want to design for Drake’s Brewing Co?
2. Describe your experience with print and physical design.
3. What design trends are you following and/or what are some examples of designs you like?

Responsibilities

• Brand Design & Development: Keep Drake’s aesthetic bold, fun, and unapologetically fresh across social content, menus, merch, signage, and more.
• Social & Digital Content: Create scroll-stopping graphics for IG, TikTok, web, and email. (Yes, we want to break the internet.)
• Event & Promo Materials: Your main focus will be supporting design for our retail locations. From beer release posters to St. Paddy’s throwdowns at our locations, you’ll craft visuals that make people say, “Hell yeah, I’m going to that.”
• Print & Packaging: Support the creative director with designing labels, cans, tap handles, sales materials, and swag that stand out on shelves and in taprooms.
• Creative Collab: Work with sales, brewmasters, and restaurant teams to keep our brand as fresh as our beer.

Requirements

• 5+ years of design experience (bonus points if it’s in beer, hospitality, or food & bev!).
• A killer portfolio showing off your range—from branding to digital to packaging.
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).
• Experience with designing for scale and creating templates.
• Skills in Canva and ability to teach retail and sales team how to edit within the platform.
• Ability to design large, physical designs like OOH graphics, digital displays at stadiums, banners for offsite events, and the list goes on!
• Can juggle multiple projects and turn around tight deadlines like a pro.
• A passion for craft beer, killer food, and bold branding.

“A Plus” Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 1-3 years of experience in food and beverage industry.
• Illustration, motion graphics, or video editing skills.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The employee in this position must frequently communicate with coworkers, managers and other staff members to identify issues and exchange information.
• The employee in this position must frequently operate a computer, a camera or cell phone, audio-visual equipment and tablets.
• The employee in this position must frequently walk and stand for the duration of their shift.
• The employee in this position may occasionally be asked to taste and smell food products.
• The employee in this position may occasionally be asked to lift at least 50 lbs.
• The employee in this position will occasionally reach with hands and arms, and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel objects and operation tools.

Core Competencies

• Trending Awareness and Creativity: Recognition of marketing and design trends and how to creatively apply them to our content/promotions. Must be able to immediately react to trends and produce in the moment content.
• Problem Solving: Identifies problems, determines accuracy and relevance of information, uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives and to make recommendations.
• Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to details.
• Teamwork: Must be able to work cooperatively and collaboratively with others; makes contributions to the work of others to assist their own team or task to achieve a shared goal.
• Communication: Presents information clearly, concisely, and logically; composes clear, direct, concise, complete messages; adapts the content and tone to suit the audience, the subject and the purpose of the communication; is able to draw logical conclusions from text, and ‘reads between the lines’ to find underlying meaning.
• Multitasking: Successfully managing more than one competing task at a time; understanding how to shift priorities in order to achieve goals.
  Workload and Time-Management: The ability to use one’s time productively and effectively; stays focused by using time effectively and prevents irrelevant issues/distractions from interfering with task/project completion; ensure that high-priority work is accomplished within established.
  Passion for Marketing and Craft Beer: Internally motivated to stay focused, knowledgeable, and committed to providing the best possible guest experience.