Senior Packaging Designer — Beauty Brand Packaging

Lifted, an Upwork Company™; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted, an Upwork Company, is building a talent pool of experienced packaging designers for potential full- or part-time engagements with enterprise partners. Selected candidates may be matched to future opportunities based on experience, availability, and project needs.

The role focuses on designing primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts, delivering production-ready files, and collaborating with product, brand, regulatory, and operations teams to ensure feasible,

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

Skills

Packaging design

Dielines

Production-ready artwork

Color management

Pre-press

Team collaboration

Typography

Education

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

Lifted, an Upwork Company, is building a talent pool of experienced packaging designers for potential full- or part-time engagements with enterprise partners. Selected candidates may be matched to future opportunities based on experience, availability, and project needs.

The role focuses on designing primary and secondary packaging, dielines, and structural concepts, delivering production-ready files, and collaborating with product, brand, regulatory, and operations teams to ensure feasible,