Packaging Designers

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted is building a talent pool for packaging designers to work on full- or part-time engagements with enterprise partners. Designers will craft primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts, delivering production-ready files and vendor-ready specs.

You will collaborate with product, brand, regulatory, and operations teams to ensure feasibility, color accuracy, and adherence to pre-press best practices across seasonal and innovative beauty/skincare packaging.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design packaging concepts and dielines for brands.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure feasibility.
• Deliver production-ready artwork and specs for printers.
• Maintain and organize packaging artwork libraries.

Skills

Packaging design

Dielines

Color management

Typography

Pre-press

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.