Packaging Designers

Lifted, an Upwork Company™; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted, an Upwork Company, partners with enterprise brands to source, contract, manage and pay contingent talent in a streamlined platform. We’re building a pool of experienced packaging designers for future employment opportunities with enterprise partners.

As a Packaging Designer, you’ll design primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and concept packaging for beauty/skincare, collaborating with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams to ensure feasibility and production-ready artwork and

Qualifications

• Experience designing primary/secondary packaging and dielines.
• Ability to prepare production-ready artwork and mechanical files.
• Collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Packaging design

Dielines

Brand collaboration

Pre-press

Print production

Typography

Color management

Artwork libraries

Mechanical files

Production collaboration

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.