Graphic Designer Intern
Carolina Panthers
Internship
On-site
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Graphic Design, Professional Sports, Football
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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.