Senior Packaging Designer

Packaging Designer (Concept-Led)

Role Overview

As a Packaging Designer at Inwork, you’ll operate as a strong conceptual designer, leading creative thinking for packaging and product-facing brand expression. You’ll translate brand strategy and creative direction into distinctive packaging concepts, and systems —then extend those ideas across activation and socially amplified touchpoints when needed.

This role is ideal for a designer who thinks in packaging first, understands the shelf and online as a brand moment, and can develop concepts that scale across formats, SKUs, and campaigns.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead concept-driven packaging design across multiple clients and categories
• Translate brand strategy, creative briefs, and conversations into clear, ownable packaging ideas
• Develop design solutions across:
• Packaging
• Packaging systems and visual frameworks (SKUs, variants, formats)
• Packaging-led activation and socially amplified brand moments
• Independently initiate and advance design work, applying judgment to move projects forward
• Manage and progress multiple projects simultaneously, balancing priorities, timelines, and quality
• Execute adaptive packaging design while maintaining conceptual clarity and brand integrity
• Participate in creative reviews and working sessions with internal teams and clients

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of professional experience in CPG packaging design
• A strong portfolio demonstrating:
• Concept-led packaging thinking
• Packaging systems and physical brand expression
• Consistent, high-quality design execution
• A strong conceptual designer who can generate original packaging ideas and articulate the thinking behind them
• Comfort working across both conceptual and adaptive packaging design
• Solid understanding of the creative process from brief through rollout
• Comfortable working in a small-team, agile environment.
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work autonomously, take initiative, and apply sound design judgment
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Willingness and enthusiasm to occasionally support internal agency development (thoughtful pitch decks, on-brand case studies, etc.)

·    Ambitious, with aspirations toward Director-level responsibilities and a strong desire for long-term growth

Tools & Skills

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator and Photoshop required)
• Experience working in Mac-based design environments
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tools

- e.g., Midjourney, Firefly, Nano Banana for early concept exploration

- Flora, Flair or similar for visualization

How You’ll Succeed at Inwork

• You lead with ideas, not just execution
• You think in packaging systems, not one-off designs
• You’re comfortable making creative decisions and explaining them thoughtfully
• You collaborate generously while maintaining ownership of your work

Work Environment & Benefits

• Fully remote (ability to attend quarterly team and/or client meetings a plus)
• Flexible, entrepreneurial culture
• Exposure to top-tier CPG brands and complex, high-impact packaging work
• Opportunity to grow within a collaborative, design-forward studio

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is remote and requires a stable, robust, high-speed internet connect for secure VPN device(s).

Benefits

•             Flexible & Entrepreneurial Working Environment

•             401K & company match

•             PTO & Health Days

•             Health, Dental, vision Benefits

•             Base Salary Range: Mid-Senior, location-based pay.