Packaging Designers

Lifted, an Upwork Company™; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted, an Upwork Company™, is building a network of experienced packaging designers for potential full- or part-time engagements with enterprise partners. You will design primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts, deliver production-ready files and vendor specs, and collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams to ensure feasibility and flawless execution.

You will bring strong color control, typography, and packaging identity, with experience in

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 operations 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.

Responsibilities

• Design packaging, dielines, and structural concepts for products.
• Create seasonal/innovative packaging for beauty/skincare lines.
• Collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams to guarantee feasibility.
• Provide production-ready files and vendor specs for print.
• Maintain color accuracy and print-prep quality throughout production.

Skills

Packaging design

Dielines

Color accuracy

Collaboration

Typography & identity

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

ArtiosCAD

Adobe InDesign

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.