Senior Packaging Designer

Role overview

Packaging design and development

• Design primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging for electronics and consumer products.
• Develop concepts aligned with product positioning, brand guidelines, and customer requirements.
• Create boxes, sleeves, pouches, inserts, labels, stickers, and other packaging components.
• Develop layouts with clear hierarchy, typography, imagery, icons, and product information.
• Create variants for different SKUs, models, colors, and markets.

Dielines and artwork preparation

• Prepare and modify packaging dielines to approved structural dimensions.
• Create print-ready artwork with correct bleed, margins, folds, cut lines, and safety areas.
• Manage artwork specifications including dimensions, material, finish, printing process, and color requirements.
• Place barcodes, QR codes, regulatory information, product specifications, and mandatory content accurately.
• Prepare final files in formats suitable for printing and production.

Structural visualization and production

• Create 2D packaging layouts and 3D mockups for internal and customer approvals.
• Work with structural packaging vendors on practical, cost-effective solutions.
• Evaluate usability, product fit, protection, and presentation.
• Support packaging development for product launches and engineering changes.
• Coordinate printers, suppliers, and vendors on artwork execution and sampling.
• Review proofs, samples, mockups, and pre-production packaging; check print quality, dimensions, finishing, alignment, and artwork accuracy.
• Resolve artwork and production issues and maintain packaging specifications and approved artwork records.

Branding and collaboration

• Follow Brandworks and customer brand guidelines and communicate product features and value clearly.
• Support product launches with packaging visuals, mockups, and presentation materials.
• Maintain consistency across packaging, product labels, and marketing collateral.
• Collaborate with NPD, Product, Marketing, Purchase, Quality, Production, SCM, customers, and internal stakeholders.
• Manage multiple projects, meet agreed timelines, maintain version control, and organize artwork documentation.

Technical skills required

• Advanced Adobe Illustrator skills.
• Good working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign.
• Packaging dieline and print-production knowledge.
• Strong understanding of CMYK, Pantone, bleed, die-cut, folding, and printing processes.
• Knowledge of corrugated board, paperboard, E-flute, B-flute, PET, pouches, and labels is an advantage.
• Basic 3D packaging visualization or mockup knowledge is an advantage.

Pay

• ₹500,000–₹600,000 per year.

Work location

• Work is in person.