Job Description
Our client in the retail space is hiring a Packaging Designer with prior packaging experience in food or beverage to join their growing team on a contract basis.
This will be 30-40 hours per week, for at least 3 months.
Ideally you are in CA or on PST to be considered.
Must show packaging design samples to be considered and MUST have strong Food or Bev packaging experience.
What you will be doing:
- Support the Senior Packaging Designers on developing and refining packaging across multiple new and existing brands.
- Design packaging layouts across a wide range of product categories.
- Translate brand strategy and creative direction into packaging visuals and typography, hierarchy, and messaging systems.
- Create dieline based packaging files and ensure print readiness according to vendor specifications.
- Develop supporting visual assets (icons, patterns, illustrations) aligned to brand personality and tone.
- Support versioning, resizing, and SKU adaptations within packaging families.
- Conduct light photo retouching, cropping, or compositing as needed.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Development, Merchandising, Brand, and Sourcing teams to ensure packaging aligns with product and shelf strategies.
- Manage multiple deadlines while maintaining high quality and attention to detail.
What you need to know:
- 7+ years of experience in packaging design, preferably in consumer goods, pet, retail, or private label.
- Strong portfolio showcasing packaging work that demonstrates layout, hierarchy, color, typography, and illustration sensibility.
- Experience working within brand systems and applying guidelines across many SKUs.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop); familiarity with digital asset management tools a plus.
- Understanding of print production processes, file setup, color management, and working with dielines.
- Ability to receive and implement feedback quickly and collaboratively.
- A passion for creating packaging that feels fresh, engaging, and consumer-friendly.
In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data.
Benefits
Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the position with you. Clicking apply is the best way to apply, but you may also:
Email your resume in Word to:
allie.reilly@jobalert.creativecircle.com
**Please do NOT change the email subject line in any way. You must keep the JobID: : AR18-1971068 -- in the email subject line for your application to be considered.***
Allie Reilly - Lead Recruiter
For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.
This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 12/04/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.
Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.
Copyright 1999 - 2025. CreativeCircle, Inc. All rights reserved.
Our client in the retail space is hiring a Packaging Designer with prior packaging experience in food or beverage to join their growing team on a contract basis.
This will be 30-40 hours per week, for at least 3 months.
Ideally you are in CA or on PST to be considered.
Must show packaging design samples to be considered and MUST have strong Food or Bev packaging experience.
What you will be doing:
- Support the Senior Packaging Designers on developing and refining packaging across multiple new and existing brands.
- Design packaging layouts across a wide range of product categories.
- Translate brand strategy and creative direction into packaging visuals and typography, hierarchy, and messaging systems.
- Create dieline based packaging files and ensure print readiness according to vendor specifications.
- Develop supporting visual assets (icons, patterns, illustrations) aligned to brand personality and tone.
- Support versioning, resizing, and SKU adaptations within packaging families.
- Conduct light photo retouching, cropping, or compositing as needed.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Development, Merchandising, Brand, and Sourcing teams to ensure packaging aligns with product and shelf strategies.
- Manage multiple deadlines while maintaining high quality and attention to detail.
What you need to know:
- 7+ years of experience in packaging design, preferably in consumer goods, pet, retail, or private label.
- Strong portfolio showcasing packaging work that demonstrates layout, hierarchy, color, typography, and illustration sensibility.
- Experience working within brand systems and applying guidelines across many SKUs.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop); familiarity with digital asset management tools a plus.
- Understanding of print production processes, file setup, color management, and working with dielines.
- Ability to receive and implement feedback quickly and collaboratively.
- A passion for creating packaging that feels fresh, engaging, and consumer-friendly.
In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data.
Benefits
Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the position with you. Clicking apply is the best way to apply, but you may also:
Email your resume in Word to:
allie.reilly@jobalert.creativecircle.com
**Please do NOT change the email subject line in any way. You must keep the JobID: : AR18-1971068 -- in the email subject line for your application to be considered.***
Allie Reilly - Lead Recruiter
For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.
This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 12/04/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.
Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.
Copyright 1999 - 2025. CreativeCircle, Inc. All rights reserved.
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