The Estée Lauder Companies Digital Designer - 6 month Fixed Term Contract

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beauty company based in the UK is looking for a talented digital designer to join their Online Design Team. You will be responsible for creating digital assets and ensuring brand alignment while collaborating with various stakeholders. Ideal candidates should possess in-depth knowledge of Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, along with strong time management and communication skills. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment and develop your design skills.

Qualifications

• In-depth professional experience with design tools.
• Ability to understand and interpret brand guidelines.
• Solid background in digital graphic design.

Responsibilities

• Create ready-to-implement digital assets for UK brands.
• Design hero banners, landing pages, and email marketing.
• Localize global assets and collaborate on projects.

Skills

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Responsive web design

Image manipulation

Communication skills

Time management

HTML

CSS

Tools

Jira

Job description

This is an exciting design position with a well-established Online Design Team at Estee Lauder Companies. The team is responsible for hands‑on design and creation of a range of digital assets that support the trading activities of our UK websites across 15 brands.,

Responsibilities

• Creation of ready‑to‑implement digital assets supporting the trading activities of our UK brands; including localising global assets, editing existing creative and designing from scratch
• Hero banner design
• Landing page design
• Email marketing design
• Editing and cropping of photographic assets
• Image composition and manipulation
• Localisation of creative from our global teams to tailor for the UK market, maximising regional effectiveness
• Slicing design files to output assets
• Implementation of designs within the Content Management System
• Act as 'brand guardian' for a handful of our brands - you'll become the subject matter expert within our team for all things design‑language when it comes to your brands
• Working alongside our in‑house creative studio on key collaborative projects

Relationships

Will work closely alongside other digital designers, Senior Digital Designer, scrum master, UX, Business Operations and brand stakeholders.

Qualifications

• In depth professional experience with Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud
• In depth production design experience creating content for digital formats (banners, landing pages, emails, social content)
• Solid understanding of responsive web design
• Ability to understand and interpret brand guidelines and design templates
• Solid background in digital graphic design with proven understanding of typography, layout and grid structures
• Image manipulation experience using both traditional and Firefly AI enhanced techniques
• Good time‑management skills and able to work under pressure in a fast‑paced environment
• Good communication and confident presentation skills
• Ability to work alongside and mentor junior designers, helping develop their capability
• Able to work independently and proactively
• Excellent attention to detail
• Understanding of HTML / CSS

Desirable

• Interest and knowledge of Web Accessibility
• Experience of iterating creative based on insights from performance data or A/B testing
• Experience of designing for dark mode
• Experience of task management in Jira
• Interest in luxury and beauty retail
• Experience of designing within a corporate environment