Packaging Designer for Enterprise-Scale Beauty Packaging

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 60,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted seeks packaging designers to design primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts for beauty/skincare. You will develop seasonal packaging, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver production-ready files and specs for flawless production.

Strong attention to color, typography, and brand identity is essential, along with maintaining version control and pre-press best practices for vendor collaborations.

Qualifications

• Design primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts.
• Develop seasonal and innovative 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

Structures

Seasonal packaging

Cross-functional collaboration

Color & typography

Brand identity

Production files

Mechanical files

Layout adjustments

Pre-press

Version control

Vendor collaboration

Job description

Lifted seeks packaging designers to design primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts for beauty/skincare. You will develop seasonal packaging, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver production-ready files and specs for flawless production.

Strong attention to color, typography, and brand identity is essential, along with maintaining version control and pre-press best practices for vendor collaborations.