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**The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.** is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

Position Overview

ELC Global Communications is seeking an Executive Director to oversee and unify the Creative Studio and Digital

Properties, including the company’s intranet and external website. This leader will be responsible for setting and

executing the company’s overall visual identity and digital experience strategy, ensuring consistency, creativity, and impact across all platforms.

The ideal candidate is a highly strategic and inspirational leader who thrives at the intersection of design, brand storytelling, and digital innovation. They will define and elevate the company’s visual tone, guide an agile and talented team, and personally contribute to projects when needed. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can balance big-picture vision with day-to-day execution.

Description

Key Responsibilities

+ **Creative Leadership**

+ Define and champion the company’s creative vision and aesthetic tone across all touchpoints,from internal communications and presentations to external campaigns and digital platforms,ensuring a unified, inspiring, and distinctive company brand identity.

+ Serve as the steward of the company’s visual language, creating and maintaining design systems,guidelines, and standards that can flex across channels while preserving company brand integrity.

+ Inspire, mentor, and guide the Creative Team to produce work that is not only visually compellingbut also strategically aligned with business objectives, elevating the brand in every execution.

+ Act as a hands-on creative partner, contributing ideas, concepts, and design direction whenneeded to ensure excellence in the final product.

+ Foster a culture of innovation and experimentation, encouraging the team to explore new designapproaches, tools, and technologies to keep the company’s creative output modern and impactful.

+ Partner closely with key stakeholders (Marketing, Brands, HR, Executive Team) to ensure creativesolutions are aligned with company priorities, messaging, and tone of voice.

+ Advocate for creativity at the executive level, positioning design as a driver of business value andemployee engagement.

+ **Digital Experience Leadership**

+ Lead the company’s digital ecosystem (intranet and external website), ensuring each platform isengaging, intuitive, and aligned with the brand.

+ Define digital design and user experience standards, incorporating best practices in UX, UI,accessibility, and responsive design.

+ Act as the bridge between creativity and technology, working across Global Communications, IT,Marketing, HR, and vendors to deliver platforms that are both functional and inspiring.

+ Continuously optimize and evolve digital properties using analytics, user feedback, and newtechnologies.

+ Oversee digital content strategy and governance, ensuring consistency, clarity, and alignment withbusiness goals.

+ Champion opportunities to modernize and innovate the company’s digital presence whilereinforcing the brand’s creative vision.

+ **Team Leadership & Management**

+ Lead, develop, and inspire a team of high-performing creative and digital professionals, fosteringcollaboration, growth, and accountability.

+ Create a culture of creativity, innovation, and excellence, while also driving operational efficiencyand clarity.

Qualifications

+ 12+ years of professional experience in creative direction, digital experience, or related fields, with atleast 5 years in a leadership role.

+ Proven track record of leading creative teams and delivering innovative, impactful visual and digitalsolutions.

+ Strong understanding of design systems, brand identity, user experience (UX), and digital platforms.

+ Exceptional storytelling, communication, and presentation skills.

+ Ability to inspire, motivate, and lead teams through vision and example.

+ Hands-on expertise in creative direction and digital project oversight.

+ Adept at balancing visionary thinking with pragmatic execution.

Pay Range:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is **$177,000.00** to **$304,000.00** . Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program as well as participation in the share incentive plan. In addition,

The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, and many others. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].

**Michigan Applicants:** Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for employment must notify the company in writing of the need for an accommodation within 182 days after the date the person with a disability knew or reasonably should have known that an accommodation was needed.

**Philadelphia Applicants:** Philadelphia's Fair Chance Hiring Law (https://www.phila.gov/media/20240326142036/V6-Fireball-Handout-fairchance-E-S.pdf)

**Rhode Island Applicants:** The company is subject to chapters 29-38 of title 28 of the general laws of Rhode Island and is therefore covered by the state's workers' compensation law.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].