Intern - Graphic Design - Panthers

Position: Graphic Designer Intern

Department: Marketing

Reporting Relationship: Reports to the Senior Graphic Designer

Status: Non-Exempt

Work Schedule: 40 Hours/week

Duration: June 2025-June 2026

Position Summary

Ready to kick off your design career with an NFL team? The Carolina Panthers are looking for a rising creative star to join our team as a Graphic Designer Intern!

If you're passionate about design, full of ideas, and always looking to learn, this is your chance to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where creativity meets football. We're looking for someone who's eager to grow, excited to explore different styles, and ready to turn inspiration into eye-catching visuals across digital, print, and in-stadium platforms.

You'll collaborate with a close-knit team of designers, video editors, and marketers to bring the Panthers brand to life - one project at a time. Whether you're laying out social graphics, building campaign concepts, or experimenting with motion, you'll be doing meaningful, real-world work that gets seen by fans across the league.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist in producing and designing content for revenue driving campaigns, presentations and other projects for sponsorship, marketing, ticketing, and other departments within the organization
• Work within the brand standards of Tepper Sports & Entertainment subsidiaries to create layouts that reinforce brand style and voice across various visual touchpoints
• Assign in generating clear ideas, concepts, and design of creative assets from beginning to end

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in graphic design or actively pursuing post-secondary education or equivalent experience and have interest and/or prior sports or entertainment industry experience
• Knowledge of and/or prior work in sports business sector is a plus
• Knowledge of design techniques and emerging technologies
• Expertise in current graphic design practices, including fluency in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop and proficiency in Lightroom, Outlook and Microsoft Office on MAC platform
• Must always maintain professional attitude and be receptive to project changes
• Ability to work flexible hours including all game weekends, nights, weekends and holidays

Essential Functions

• Relationship builder who is willing to support, openness to coaching and differentiating perspectives and operating within a team dynamic
• Accustomed to working in a fast-paced environment with ability to multi-task and collaborate
• Being willing to provide and receive quality-related feedback
• Exhibits professionalism while consistently deliver projects on time through completion
• Must organize personal workflows so projects are easily shared between teammates
• Must be able to handle confidential, privileged, and/or sensitive information with carefully and with sensitivity

Physical Requirements

• Perform physical activities such as setting up for an event or producing print mocks

• Standing, sitting, and working at desk on a computer
• Walking throughout the stadium
• Lift at least 25 pounds
• Travel less than 20%

Work Environment

• This job operates in a professional office environment (mostly office environment, outside in a stadium facility at times which may include inclement weather conditions) and remotely as assigned by management and based on current business needs.

The Carolina Panthers are an equal opportunity at-will employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin.