Packaging Designer: Create Production-Ready Packaging

Lifted, an Upwork Company™; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted, an Upwork Company™ is building a talent pool for experienced packaging designers to work with enterprise partners. Selected candidates may be matched to future full-time or part-time engagements based on experience, availability, and project needs.

We are seeking professionals who can design packaging concepts, ensure production-ready artwork, and collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams to ensure feasibility across color, finishes, and pre-press processes.

Qualifications

• Design primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts.
• Develop seasonal and innovation packaging for beauty/skincare categories.
• Partner with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams to ensure feasibility.
• Own color, finishes, typography, hierarchy, and visual packaging identity.
• Deliver production-ready files and vendor-ready specs.
• Prepare accurate mechanical files for print and manufacturing.
• Execute resizing, adaptations, layout adjustments, and technical refinements.
• Ensure color accuracy, trapping, bleeds, and pre-press best practices.
• Manage version control and packaging artwork libraries.
• Partner with designers and printers to ensure flawless production.
• Background in designing primary/secondary packaging; structural concepts.
• Experienced in building production-ready artwork, mechanicals, technical files.

Skills

Packaging design

Dielines

Structural concepts

Production-ready artwork

Color management

Pre-press

Print specs

Version control

Vendor coordination

Brand collaboration

Job description

Lifted, an Upwork Company™ is building a talent pool for experienced packaging designers to work with enterprise partners. Selected candidates may be matched to future full-time or part-time engagements based on experience, availability, and project needs.

We are seeking professionals who can design packaging concepts, ensure production-ready artwork, and collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams to ensure feasibility across color, finishes, and pre-press processes.