Packaging Designer - Production-Ready & Innovative Packaging

Lifted, an Upwork Company™; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted, an Upwork Company™ is seeking a Packaging Designer to help create primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts. The role involves developing seasonal and innovative packaging for beauty/skincare categories and collaborating with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams to ensure feasibility.

You will own color, finishes, typography, hierarchy, and visual packaging identity, deliver production-ready files and vendor-ready specs, prepare accurate mechanical files for

Responsibilities

• 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

Job description

Lifted, an Upwork Company™ is seeking a Packaging Designer to help create primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts. The role involves developing seasonal and innovative packaging for beauty/skincare categories and collaborating with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams to ensure feasibility.

You will own color, finishes, typography, hierarchy, and visual packaging identity, deliver production-ready files and vendor-ready specs, prepare accurate mechanical files for