Packaging Designers

Lifted, an Upwork Company™; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted is seeking a Packaging Designer to create primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts for beauty/skincare. You will develop seasonal packaging and ensure feasibility with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams.

You will own color, finishes, typography, and visual packaging identity, deliver production-ready files, prepare mechanicals, and collaborate with printers to ensure flawless production.

Qualifications

• Experience designing primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts.
• Develop seasonal and innovative packaging for beauty/skincare categories.
• Collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams for 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 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 and iterate packaging concepts for multiple SKUs.
• Create dielines, color palettes, and typography systems.
• Prepare print-ready files and BOMs for suppliers.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to validate feasibility.
• Maintain artwork libraries and version control.
• Collaborate with printers and vendors to ensure accuracy.

Skills

Packaging design

Dielines

Typography

Color management

Pre-press

Artwork production

Print specs

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Photoshop

Job description

Lifted partners with enterprise companies to help them scale smarter. We offer a single solution designed to source, contract, manage, and pay contingent talent. For talent in our network, Lifted provides access to enterprise-level projects while handling engagement setup, contracting, compliance, and payments in the background, so you can focus on delivering high-quality work.

Job Description

Why We’re Building a Talent Pool

We’re continuously building our network of experienced talent across Packaging Designers who are interested in being considered for full or part-time employment engagements with assignments to work with our enterprise partners. While this is not tied to one specific project, selected candidates may be matched to future employment opportunities based on experience, availability, and alignment with project needs.

Qualifications

What We Look For

• 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

Additional Qualifications (if relevant)

• Background in designing primary/secondary packaging; structural concepts.
• Experienced in building production-ready artwork, mechanicals, technical files.