Estée Lauder Companies Digital Designer

About Estée Lauder Companies

The Estée Lauder Companies is a global leader in prestige beauty, founded in 1946 by Estée and Joseph Lauder and built on an enduring belief in creativity, high-touch service, and entrepreneurial spirit. As an employer, the Group offers talent the scale of an international house with the energy of distinctive brands across skincare, makeup, fragrance, and hair care. Its culture values innovation, inclusion, learning, and responsible growth, inviting professionals to shape consumer experiences from laboratory to counter, digital platform to boardroom. Employees join a purpose-led organization where heritage, artistry, and scientific excellence meet to define the future of luxury beauty.

Role & Responsibilities

• Create ready-to-implement digital assets for UK brand trading activities, including localising global assets, editing existing creative and designing assets from scratch.
• Design hero banners, landing pages and email marketing.
• Edit and crop photographic assets; compose and manipulate images.
• Localise creative from global teams for the UK market to maximise regional effectiveness.
• Slice design files to output assets.
• Act as brand guardian for a group of brands and serve as the team’s design-language subject matter expert for those brands.
• Collaborate with the in-house creative studio on key projects.
• Work closely with digital designers, the Senior Digital Designer, scrum master, UX, Business Operations and brand stakeholders.
• Work alongside and mentor junior designers, helping develop their capabilities.

Qualifications

• In-depth professional experience with Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud.
• In-depth production design experience creating digital content such as banners, landing pages, emails and social content.
• Solid understanding of responsive web design.
• Ability to understand and interpret brand guidelines and design templates.
• Strong background in digital graphic design, with a proven understanding of typography, layout and grid structures.
• Image manipulation experience using traditional and Firefly AI-enhanced techniques.
• Good time-management skills and ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Good communication and confident presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and proactively.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Understanding of HTML and CSS.
• Desirable: interest in and knowledge of web accessibility.
• Desirable: experience iterating creative based on performance data insights or A/B testing.
• Desirable: experience designing for dark mode.
• Desirable: experience managing tasks in Jira.
• Desirable: interest in luxury and beauty retail.
• Desirable: experience designing in a corporate environment.

Skills

Workplace

Benefits

Hybrid working; 25 days of annual leave excluding bank holidays; one additional day of annual leave to celebrate a birthday; holiday purchase opportunity; bonus opportunity; ability to work remotely or abroad for up to two weeks per calendar year; Summer Fridays; staff discount; mental health and wellbeing initiatives; benefits platform with exclusive discounts and offers; employee resource groups; LinkedIn Learning.

Culture

The Estée Lauder Companies fosters a collaborative, inclusive workplace where creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, and a passion for prestige beauty are deeply valued. As a global house of distinctive brands, it offers employees an environment that encourages innovation, professional growth, and a shared commitment to excellence and consumer inspiration.

About Cerulean

Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.