Packaging Designers

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 60,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted seeks packaging designers to design primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts for beauty/skincare. You will develop seasonal packaging, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver production-ready files and specs for flawless production.

Strong attention to color, typography, and brand identity is essential, along with maintaining version control and pre-press best practices for vendor collaborations.

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

Skills

Packaging design

Dielines

Structures

Seasonal packaging

Cross-functional collaboration

Color & typography

Brand identity

Production files

Mechanical files

Layout adjustments

Pre-press

Version control

Vendor 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.