Packaging Designer for Enterprise-Scale Projects

Lifted, an Upwork Company™; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted, an Upwork Company™, is building a talent pool for skilled Packaging Designers to support enterprise partners. You will design primary and secondary packaging, create dielines and structural concepts, and collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and operations teams to ensure feasibility and production-ready output.

Selected candidates may be matched to future employment opportunities based on experience, availability, and project needs within our network of enterprise partners.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design primary and secondary packaging concepts and dielines.
• Create production-ready artwork and mechanical files for printers.
• Collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and operations teams to ensure feasibility.

Skills

Packaging design

Dielines

Print production

Color management

Pre-press

Production-ready files

Version control

Printer coordination

Job description

Lifted, an Upwork Company™, is building a talent pool for skilled Packaging Designers to support enterprise partners. You will design primary and secondary packaging, create dielines and structural concepts, and collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and operations teams to ensure feasibility and production-ready output.

Selected candidates may be matched to future employment opportunities based on experience, availability, and project needs within our network of enterprise partners.