Graduate Leadership Program - Junior Designer

Named Ad Age Best Places to Work for 11 years in a row and Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators since 2022, PMG is a global independent marketing services and technology company that seeks to inspire people and brands that anything is possible. Driven by shared success, PMG leverages business strategy and transformation, creative, media, and insights—as well as its proprietary operating system, Alli—to deliver cutting-edge digital solutions and innovative media strategies.

Our team comprises over 900 employees globally, and our work for ambitious brands like Apple, Nike, Sephora, Experian, Therabody, Best Western Hotels & Resorts, Creed Fragrances, BNY, Intuit, CKE Restaurants, Travelex, and Whole Foods spans 85+ countries.

PMG is a digital company that helps marketers connect people with their brand. Focused on people and grounded in data, our award-winning culture fosters meaningful careers. Partnering with the most iconic brands in the world, we put people at the center of everything we do to deliver value, innovation, and business transformation.

The PMG Graduate Leadership Program (GLP) is a hands-on leadership development program for recent graduates of bachelor’s or master’s programs who are interested in the future of advertising, working on cutting-edge campaigns and driving impact for leading brands such as Nike, PayPal, and Best Western. This full-time program will hone your skills in design, storytelling, and innovative content creation. We’re looking for team players, passionate leaders, and curious individuals who ask questions, solve problems, and who are ready to roll up their sleeves and get to work. 

The creative track provides career opportunities focused on shaping what the future of the industry looks like, working in concert with strategy, media, data and technology to build brands through 'Inspired Creative that Works. Your training and curriculum will cover a series of topics including brand building, the intersection of technology and creative, creative strategy, production, and building media-right creative. 

1. Creatively Passionate | You are eager to create, energized by making things that are endearing, compelling, memorable and rooted in culture. 
2. Human Centered | Humans are unpredictable. They’re funny. They’re inventive and emotional and original and smarter than they’re given credit for. You need to be all those things, too. 
3. Impact Driven | Great work creates action.  Deliver tangible outcomes that build brands through every part of the customer journey. 
4. Agile | You are ready to adapt to shifts in culture, budgets and real-time data to produce advertising creative relevant for that moment in time. 

• Translating strategic briefs into coherent advertising concepts and executions
• Developing design systems for campaign concepts and creative executions
• Supporting the design process and assisting in the development and execution of various creative design projects
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including writers, developers, and other designers to ensure design consistency and alignment with brand voice and messaging
• Participating in brainstorming sessions and contributing to the development of content strategies and advertising campaigns
• Building and iterating design concepts through final finish and production
• Translating creative briefs to ensure creative fit based on business objectives

• • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree completed between Fall 2026 and Spring 2027 
  • Area of study: graphic design, communication design, or related field
  • Relevant professional work and/or internship experience, preferably in advertising or graphic design, with a creative portfolio inclusive of brand work and/or advertising ideas and executions across multiple media channels
  • Expertise in color theory, brand identity, typography, user behavior, visual storytelling, and conceptual thinking
  • Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Keynote and related design software

• Gain valuable experience and insights from industry experts during an immersive training program
• Drive home your learnings with hands-on projects and direct job shadowing with industry experts
• Connect with fellow PMG associates through small group meetings and a dedicated onboarding buddy

Being part of PMG means joining a company culture that’s unmatched in digital. We're dedicated to working hard to serve our employees and clients, delivering value, results, and innovation—which often requires true grit and agility. We believe in taking care of ourselves and each other to continuously improve in every way.

In alignment with our core values to be inclusive and always change for the better, PMG is committed to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that we only change for the better by bringing diverse perspectives to our company. PMG recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.