About this role
At Thorne, we work to deliver high-quality, science-backed solutions to empower individuals to take a proactive approach to their well-being. Each day begins with a mission to help others discover and achieve their best health. We count on our team members to challenge and push the boundaries to make that happen. At Thorne, you’ll be joining a team of more than 750 passionate individuals committed to our cause of providing superior health solutions at every age and life stage. The Senior Packaging Production Designer is responsible for leading the mechanical development, production readiness, and ongoing maintenance of packaging and labeling artwork across Thorne’s global product portfolio. This role serves as a primary production artwork expert, translating approved creative concepts into accurate, compliant, and production-ready mechanical files across a wide range of packaging formats, product variants, and markets. A key focus of this position will be supporting a large-scale global packaging redesign spanning more than 200 SKUs while establishing scalable standards and processes that support Thorne’s long-term packaging needs. Working closely with Creative, Quality, Regulatory, Legal, Engineering, Operations, Project Management, and external production partners, the Senior Packaging Production Designer ensures artwork meets brand, regulatory, technical, manufacturing, print, and quality requirements from creative handoff through final production. This role also serves as a steward of packaging and labeling artwork throughout its lifecycle, ensuring files remain accurate, current, traceable, and compliant as product specifications, formulations, claims, regulatory requirements, and other business needs evolve. This is a contract-to-hire opportunity with the potential to transition into a full-time position based on business needs and performance. Packaging Production & Mechanical Development Lead the mechanical development and production artwork stages for packaging and labeling projects across Thorne’s global product portfolio, including execution of a 200+ SKU global packaging redesign. Translate approved creative concepts into accurate, production-ready mechanical artwork across multiple packaging formats, sizes, product variants, markets, and print processes. Build and maintain packaging artwork using approved dielines and specifications, incorporating regulatory copy, ingredient and nutrition information, claims, certifications, barcodes, symbols, legal language, trademarks, print specifications, and other required content. Maintain the integrity of approved creative throughout mechanical development while ensuring artwork meets regulatory, quality, technical, manufacturing, and print requirements. Perform comprehensive quality-control reviews of packaging artwork before routing, approval, prepress, and final release. Protect brand and design integrity throughout the production artwork process. Regulatory, Quality & Cross-Functional Execution Partner with Project Management, Quality, Regulatory, and Legal teams to accurately execute approved packaging and labeling requirements. Ensure required regulatory, legal, product, and quality content is accurately reflected in final production artwork. Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, printers, converters, prepress vendors, agencies, and other production partners to ensure artwork meets technical and manufacturing specifications. Identify and resolve artwork, dieline, prepress, print, and production issues before manufacturing. Evaluate the impact of artwork changes across related SKUs, packaging formats, product variants, and markets and ensure updates are implemented consistently across affected files. Communicate potential artwork, production, compliance, timing, and quality risks promptly and recommend practical solutions. Artwork Lifecycle & Change Management Manage ongoing packaging artwork revisions resulting from regulatory changes, formulation updates, ingredient or nutrition changes, claims, certifications, legal requirements, manufacturing changes, and other approved business needs. Maintain disciplined standards for file naming, version control, artwork archiving, production-file organization, and artwork history. Ensure current approved artwork can be clearly identified and historical files remain appropriately traceable. Maintain accurate documentation of artwork specifications, revisions, decisions, approvals, and production requirements. Support effective artwork change management across a high-volume portfolio containing multiple interconnected SKUs and formats. Prepress, Proofing, & Production Review and approve digital proofs, contract proofs, press proofs, and color targets before production. Partner with printers and other production vendors during press approvals when required. Apply advanced knowledge of dielines, typography, image resolution, bleeds, trapping, separations, spot colors, barcodes, print specifications, and production-file preparation. Work directly with printers, converters, prepress houses, packaging suppliers, and production agencies to troubleshoot and resolve technical production issues. Process Development & Subject Matter Expertise Partner with the Senior Project Manager, Packaging to establish and continuously improve Thorne’s end-to-end packaging development workflow from creative handoff through mechanical development, cross-functional review, approval, prepress, and final release. Develop and maintain production standards, templates, mechanical requirements, file structures, proofing protocols, quality-control checkpoints, and supporting documentation. Identify opportunities to improve packaging production efficiency, consistency, accuracy, scalability, and quality. Serve as a subject-matter expert for packaging production artwork and provide guidance to internal teams on mechanical development, prepress, artwork execution, and production requirements. Maintain current knowledge of packaging production technologies, print processes, artwork-related regulatory considerations, and industry best practices. Balance immediate production needs with the development of scalable processes and systems that support Thorne’s growing packaging portfolio. Independently manage multiple concurrent packaging projects, priorities, and dependencies while maintaining quality and production timelines.