Gentle Pet Store – Visual Merchandising Intern

About the Role

As our Visual Merchandising Intern, you'll help define how GPS looks and feels across every touchpoint a customer sees — from product presentation and packaging to event booths, pop-up displays, and unique branded merchandise (swag). You'll also drive the sourcing of visually distinctive, on-brand products and materials, including through platforms like Taobao. This is a hands-on, creative role suited to someone who loves styling, illustration, and bringing a brand to life in physical and visual form.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain a consistent visual merchandising standard for GPS across online storefront, events, and pop-ups

• Support sourcing of unique, on-brand merchandise and packaging (e.g. via Taobao) that balances cost, quality, and brand fit

• Concept and produce illustration work for offline touchpoints — event backdrops, signage, product displays and online touchpoints — livestreaming

• Assist in styling and setting up product displays at events, pop-ups, and activations

• Collaborate with respective team members to ensure visual merchandising is aligned with brand tone and campaign calendars

• Research merchandising trends in the pet and lifestyle retail space to keep GPS distinctive and current

• Help develop unique GPS-branded swag concepts (from ideation through sourcing)

• Support with light on-ground presence at events where visual/merchandising set-up is required

What We're Looking For

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a diploma/degree in Design, Visual Merchandising, Fine Arts, Marketing, or related field

• A strong eye for aesthetics, styling, and brand consistency

• Illustration or graphic design skills (portfolio/work samples appreciated but not mandatory)

• Comfortable navigating sourcing platforms such as Taobao, or willing to learn quickly

• Organised, resourceful, and comfortable working with ambiguity in a small, early-stage team

• Genuine interest in pets and pet care is a strong plus

• Able to commit to occasional weekend/evening event support

What You'll Gain

• Real ownership over how a growing pet-care brand looks and feels, from concept to execution

• Direct exposure to founders and cross-functional work with brand, community, and sourcing

• Hands-on experience in both offline (events/illustration) and online (storefront/sourcing) visual merchandising

• A flexible, collaborative working environment

How to Apply

Please send your resume and, if available, a short portfolio or work samples to ops@gentlepetstore.co