Senior Packaging Designer

Requirements

• 5-7+ years of professional graphic design experience, with at least 4 years focused on retail or CPG packaging design
• Expert-level proficiency in Adobe InDesign, with advanced skills in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
• Deep knowledge of packaging production, including dielines, structural files, prepress requirements, color management, and print processes
• Proven experience creating and managing press-ready artwork for high-volume production environments
• Track record of managing packaging for large SKU portfolios with multiple variants while maintaining a consistent, scalable system across product families
• Strong understanding of barcodes, regulatory and legal copy requirements, and artwork version control
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain packaging architecture and systems that scale efficiently across hundreds of SKUs
• Strong project management skills with the ability to handle multiple launches, tight deadlines, and competing priorities
• Exceptional attention to detail, particularly related to packaging accuracy, regulatory copy, barcodes, and version control
• Comfort presenting and defending design concepts and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders
• Ability to work independently while effectively collaborating with product marketing, product development, sourcing, manufacturing, and related teams
• Strong communication skills, both visual and verbal, enabling clear collaboration and alignment across functions

Nice to have:

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Marketing, or a related field
• Experience supporting consumer products, retail, hardware, industrial products, or CPG organizations
• Experience designing packaging for power tools, hardware, or industrial products
• Familiarity with packaging workflow tools such as Esko or other packaging workflow management systems
• Experience with multilingual or multi-market packaging (for example, North America and LATAM) and international packaging standards
• Knowledge of sustainable packaging materials and design approaches, including initiatives to reduce environmental impact
• Experience in product design, product development, and packaging design within consumer or retail product categories
• Experience in visual design, product labeling, point-of-purchase (POP) display design, and merchandising for retail environments
• Experience working within cross-functional product marketing and new product development teams
• Interest in leveraging automation, AI, scripting, and other tools to improve packaging system efficiency and consistency

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Important Details

• Schedule: full-time during initial onboarding, then hybrid with one remote day per week
• Contract: temporary
• Application deadline: November 6, 2026

About the Company

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. It helps visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. It is an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for its engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.