Packaging Designers

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

Job summary

Lifted, an Upwork Company™ is seeking experienced packaging designers to help build our talent pool for full or part-time engagements with enterprise partners. You will design primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structures, while ensuring production-ready artwork and accurate pre-press files for print and manufacturing.

You will collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and ops teams to ensure feasibility and consistency across packaging identities.

Qualifications

• Experience designing primary and secondary packaging; dielines and structural concepts.
• Experience building production-ready artwork and mechanical files.
• Ability to work with color, finishes, typography, and packaging identity.

Responsibilities

• Design primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts.
• Develop seasonal and innovative packaging for beauty/skincare.
• Collaborate 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, 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.

Skills

Packaging design

Dielines

Typography

Pre-press

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or Packaging

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.

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