Packaging & Production Designer

Vision Unlimited; United States; Remoto; USD 70.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Vision Unlimited is seeking a Packaging & Production Designer to own packaging artwork, production workflow, and print execution, while providing creative support for digital, e-commerce, and marketing initiatives.

This hands-on role reports to the Sr. Brand Manager and collaborates with printers, packaging vendors, and internal teams to ensure dielines, color accuracy, finishes, and production specifications across skincare products.

Competenze

• 5+ years of professional design experience.
• Significant packaging design and production experience.
• Experience in beauty or skincare preferred.
• Portfolio demonstrating packaging work and production execution.

Mansioni

• Develop packaging artwork for new product innovations and line extensions.
• Translate direction into production-ready artwork.
• Prepare mechanical files for printers and contract manufacturers.
• Review proofs and resolve production issues before release.
• Maintain organized, version-controlled production files.

Conoscenze

Hands-on

Production-minded

Resourceful

Flexible

Cross-functional comms

Strumenti

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

InDesign

Figma

Descrizione del lavoro

Packaging & Production Designer

Reports To: Sr. Brand Manager

Hours: 6:30 PM to 4:30 AM IST

Employment: Full-Time

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Client is growing, with new product innovation, packaging development, and a broader brand evolution underway. We are hiring a Packaging & Production Designer to own packaging design, production artwork, and print execution, plus creative support across digital, e-commerce, and marketing as priorities require.

This is a hands-on execution role. You will take creative direction from our Senior Designer and independently own your assigned packaging, artwork, and production workstreams.

PACKAGING & PRODUCTION (PRIMARY FOCUS)

• Develop packaging artwork and design solutions for new product innovation, line extensions, renovations, and brand refresh initiatives.
• Translate creative direction into polished, production-ready packaging artwork.
• Work across primary and secondary packaging, including cartons, labels, tubes, bottles, jars, sleeves, and other skincare formats.
• Build and manipulate packaging dielines.
• Prepare mechanical files and final artwork for contract manufacturers, printers, and packaging vendors.
• Understand and manage layered print files and production specifications.
• Work with specialty print processes such as spot colors, white/opaque layers, varnishes, foils, embossing, debossing, and other finishes.
• Ensure proper bleeds, trim areas, safe zones, color specifications, image resolution, fonts, linked assets, and other technical requirements.
• Review printer proofs and artwork revisions.
• Identify and resolve potential production issues before artwork is released.
• Communicate directly with printers, packaging suppliers, and contract manufacturers as needed.
• Maintain organized, accurate, version-controlled production files.
• Ensure final artwork reflects approved creative direction and technical specifications.
• Help establish scalable packaging artwork systems as the brand portfolio grows.

BRAND & CREATIVE SUPPORT

Packaging is the primary focus. This role also contributes to the broader brand ecosystem as business priorities require:

• Innovation concept development, brand refresh initiatives, and product launch materials
• Brand, sales, and retailer presentations; product education materials
• Campaign assets and marketing collateral
• E-commerce creative, including Amazon A+ Content and Product Detail Page (PDP) assets
• Website graphics, landing pages, campaign landers, and digital banners
• Social and paid media assets
• Photography cleanup and retouching; 3D product and packaging concepts

You should be comfortable moving between physical packaging and digital brand experiences while maintaining visual consistency across consumer touchpoints.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Adobe Creative Suite advanced proficiency required in Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.

Packaging & Print Production strong working knowledge of:

• Packaging dielines, mechanical artwork, and prepress
• Print specifications, print layers, and printer proofs
• CMYK, spot colors, and Pantone/color matching
• Bleeds and trim; white/opaque layers
• Specialty finishes: foils, varnishes, embossing/debossing
• Packaging substrates and production considerations
• Contract manufacturer artwork requirements

Digital & Visualization

• Figma preferred, not required
• Experience designing for websites and landing pages
• Experience with Amazon A+ content and PDPs preferred
• Understanding of digital asset specifications and e-commerce design
• 3D product/packaging visualization experience is a plus

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of professional design experience.
• Significant experience with packaging design and production.
• Experience in CPG, beauty, skincare, cosmetics, personal care, wellness, or a related consumer product category strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience taking packaging from concept through final production.
• Experience working directly with printers, packaging vendors, and/or contract manufacturers.
• Advanced Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign skills.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating real-world packaging work and production execution.
• Experience supporting both physical and digital brand touchpoints.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

You know that great packaging takes both creative instinct and technical precision. You look at a concept and immediately start thinking about dieline, substrate, print process, finish, and final manufactured product. You are:

• Hands-on comfortable getting into the files and doing the work.
• Production-minded you understand how creative decisions translate into physical production.
• Resourceful you can figure things out where not every process is documented yet.
• Flexible you can move between packaging, digital, e-commerce, and marketing needs.
• Low-ego and accountable you value the strongest solution over individual ownership, and you drive your workstreams to completion.