Assistant Manager - Design

Location: Goa (Onsite)

Experience: 10+ years

Industry: FMCG / Food & Beverage / Coffee / Consumer Brands

About the Role

We are looking for an Assistant Manager – Design to strengthen and elevate the brand’s visual identity across packaging, digital, campaigns, and other brand touchpoints. The role requires strong hands-on design skills, a good understanding of current design trends and competitor aesthetics, and the ability to translate brand strategy into impactful visual communication.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and evolve the brand's visual design language.
- Research global design trends, competitor packaging and category trends to identify opportunities.
- Develop moodboards, visual territories and creative directions.
- Conceptualise and execute packaging designs from idea to final artwork.
- Design and execute themes for campaigns, e-commerce, website, retail and other brand assets.
- Maintain strong visual consistency across SKUs and brand touchpoints.
- Work across typography, colour, layout, imagery, illustration and visual storytelling.
- Present creative concepts and explain design rationale.
- Ensure designs are both visually strong and commercially practical.

Design Background & Skills

- 10+ years of hands-on graphic/visual design experience, preferably in FMCG, F&B;, coffee, lifestyle or consumer brands.
- Strong experience in packaging, branding and visual communication.
- Excellent understanding of typography, composition, colour,



layout and visual hierarchy.
- Strong conceptual and execution skills, able to take a project from concept to final production-ready artwork.
- Strong eye for contemporary design and ability to identify opportunities beyond existing category conventions.
- Good understanding of packaging production and printing, including dielines, bleed, CMYK/Pantone, colour reproduction and basic print processes.
- Familiarity with packaging finishes and pre-press requirements is a plus.
- Able to coordinate with printers/vendors and ensure artwork is production-ready.
- Portfolio must demonstrate actual design work and execution, not just mockups.

Design Software

- Adobe Illustrator – Advanced
- Adobe Photoshop – Advanced
- Adobe InDesign – Advanced
- Adobe After Effects – Advanced
- Adobe Firefly – Intermediate
- Figma – Intermediate
- Blender – Intermediate

Familiarity with AI-assisted design and creative tools is an added advantage.

What We're Looking For

You should be someone who actively studies leading brands, packaging, advertising, digital, social media and emerging visual trends, understanding what works, why it works, and how it can be applied to elevate our brand.

You should be able to identify opportunities, develop creative directions, translate ideas into solid visual concepts, and execute the final designs along with the team.

Apply now and bring your ideas to Coffeeza. ☕

? [email protected]

📌 Assistant Manager - Design (Goa)
🏢 Coffeeza
📍 Goa