Associate Art Director, Digital Design & Content - Estee Lauder, AERIN, Bobbi Brown & LAB Series

The Estée Lauder Companies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness programs

Retirement savings plans

Paid leave

Education-related programs

Paid holidays

Job summary

Estée Lauder Companies is seeking a senior digital designer to craft elevated, on-brand experiences across ecommerce, email campaigns, and content while maintaining a mobile-first approach. You will shape typography, layout, and visual storytelling for luxury beauty brands and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable design solutions.

The role emphasizes brand guidelines, design systems, and collaboration with PMs and developers to bring concepts to life in a fast-paced,

Qualifications

• 5+ years design experience within beauty, luxury, or design-driven industries.
• Strong typography, layout, and visual storytelling.
• Proficient across digital, ecommerce, social, CRM, and campaign work.
• Able to concept original ideas and execute within brand guidelines and design systems.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.

Responsibilities

• Design elevated, on-brand ecommerce experiences including site refreshes, landing pages, and product launches.
• Concept and design email marketing campaigns with cross-functional teams.
• Bring exceptional typography, layout, imagery, and craft to every execution.
• Design with a mobile-first mindset, considering UX, messaging, and platform requirements.
• Create scalable design solutions for high-volume ecommerce.
• Partner with project managers and developers to take concepts from concept through final execution.

Skills

Typography

Layout design

Digital design

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Brand guidelines

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Job description

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.

Description

Responsibilities

Digital Design & Ecommerce

• Design elevated, on-brand experiences across our ecommerce, including site refreshes, landing pages, product launches, promotional updates, and other digital touchpoints.
• Concept and design email marketing campaigns, partnering with Online, CRM, Social, and cross-functional teams to create a connected consumer experience.
• Bring an exceptional eye for typography, layout, imagery, and design craft to every execution.
• Design with a mobile-first mindset, considering user experience, messaging hierarchy, platform requirements, and consumer behavior.
• Create scalable design solutions that balance exceptional craft with the speed and efficiency required for a high-volume ecommerce business.
• Partner with project managers and developers to bring more complex digital experiences from concept through final execution.

Content Creation

• Concept, storyboard, shoot, and edit Lo-Fi content across organic social, paid media, ecommerce, TikTok Shop, and other emerging platforms.
• Create engaging short-form video, Reels, product storytelling, UGC-style content, photography, and other platform-native assets.
• Be comfortable working hands‑on with an iPhone, basic lighting and our internal photo studio to create polished, relevant content quickly.
• Translate briefs, trends, and business needs into simple, compelling content ideas that feel authentic to both the brand and platform.
• Partner with Social, Marketing, Online, and other creative teams to develop content that works cohesively across channels.

Innovation & Ways of Working

• Stay deeply connected to beauty, fashion, design, social culture, ecommerce, and emerging content trends.
• Understand how consumers discover and shop beauty across platforms, with knowledge of TikTok Shop and social commerce strongly preferred.
• Explore AI and emerging creative tools to enhance ideation, content creation, design, and workflow efficiency.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines independently while remaining flexible, responsive, and collaborative.
• Present concepts and design work clearly, take direction thoughtfully, and contribute positively to creative critique and team collaboration.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Exceptional creative taste with a portfolio demonstrating excellent graphic design, typography, layout, and visual storytelling.
• 5+ years of design experience within beauty, fashion, luxury, agency, retail, or another design-driven industry.
• Strong hands‑on design skills with experience across digital, ecommerce, social, CRM, and campaign work.
• Ability to both concept original ideas and execute within established brand guidelines and design systems.
• Exceptional typography and attention to detail are a must.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to articulate design thinking and confidently present work.
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma required.
• Experience creating mood boards, storyboards, shoot concepts, or photo/video creative decks is a plus; on‑set art direction experience is welcome but not required.
• Motion, video editing, photography, Lo‑Fi content creation, and AI‑assisted creative experience are a plus.
• Strong communication, organization, and time‑management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Curious, collaborative, positive, low ego, and eager to learn and grow.
• Passionate about beauty, design, culture, and creating exceptional work at every scale.

Pay Range

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $85,000.00 to $139,600.00. 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 with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.

In addition, The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance), 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.

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 [e-mail].

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

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.