Estée Lauder Companies Creative Director, North America
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Director
- Compensation
- $154,000–264,750/year
- Department
- Creative, Design & Styling
- Posted
- Sep 22, 2026
Estée Lauder Companies seeks Executive Director, Regional Brand Creative in New York to lead North American creative vision across paid media, social, ecommerce, and retail.
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and inspire the Regional Brand Creative team, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, accountability, and growth
- Establish and maintain creative vision and quality standards across all North American consumer touchpoints
- Concept and lead integrated 360° campaigns from initial idea through production, post-production, and delivery
- Provide strategic direction for photo and video productions while developing the team's concepting and art direction capabilities
- Champion exceptional craft, thoughtful design, and strong typography through constructive creative feedback
- Adapt global campaigns for North American relevance and develop regionally tailored design solutions aligned with business objectives
- Serve as steward of brand guidelines, ensuring consistency while evolving brand expression for the regional market
- Oversee full scope of North American content creation across regional campaigns, ecommerce, retail, and product launches
- Lead planning across campaigns, asset delivery, productions, timelines, approvals, and agency partnerships
- Balance multiple priorities while maintaining exceptional quality in a fast-paced environment
- Partner with Creative Operations to prioritize work, streamline workflows, and ensure timely delivery of ecommerce and campaign assets
- Anticipate challenges, solve problems proactively, and continuously identify opportunities to improve processes and scale creative output
- Stay ahead of trends across beauty, fashion, culture, technology, and design to maintain cultural relevance
- Monitor competitive activity and consumer trends to continually elevate the brand and inspire fresh thinking
- Develop talent through mentorship, design critique, and growth opportunities
Qualifications
- Exceptional creative taste demonstrated through a portfolio of stellar design, typography, art direction, photography, and visual storytelling
- Ability to adapt to established brand systems while creating original and compelling design solutions
- Extensive experience leading integrated campaigns within beauty, fashion, luxury, or another design-driven industry
- Proven ability to balance breakthrough brand work with high-volume digital, ecommerce, and CRM asset delivery
- Demonstrated success building, mentoring, and inspiring high-performing creative teams
- Experience concepting and directing event and experiential design
- Strategic thinking ability with capacity to translate business objectives into compelling ideas and meaningful consumer experiences
- Proven experience leading photo and video productions from concept and casting through on-set art direction and post-production
- Excellent presentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience managing agency relationships, creative production, talent, and external partners
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma; proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Passion for exploring AI as a tool to improve workflows, efficiency, and innovation
- Curious, collaborative, low-ego approach with passion for developing both people and exceptional work
- Deep appreciation for beauty, culture, design, and consumer trends
- Thrives in fast-paced environments with resilience, adaptability, and solutions-oriented mindset
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in Creative Direction and Design
Skills
Experience
Extensive professional experience in creative leadership within luxury, beauty, or fashion industries, with demonstrated success concepting and directing integrated campaigns. Proven track record building and mentoring high-performing creative teams across multiple disciplines. Direct experience leading full-cycle photo and video productions, managing external creative partners and agencies, and delivering high-volume digital and ecommerce content at scale.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Communications, Marketing, or related discipline; advanced degree or equivalent professional experience in creative direction or design leadership preferred.
Workplace
This position is based in New York, New York, USA.
Compensation
The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 154,000 to USD 264,750 per annum.
Benefits
Health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision), wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, highly competitive bonus program with potential for overachievement based on performance and company results, share incentive plan.
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