Director, Content Production - North America

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:

General Production:

· Manage multiple productions of various scale across brands simultaneously. Anticipate changes, risks, and roadblocks and proactively take steps to mitigate and resolve.

· Own and manage relationships with external vendors, agencies, and freelance production talent.

· Operate with a resourceful mindset, maximizing production value while working efficiently within timelines and budgets.

· Own and communicate shoot volume and cadence across the full production calendar.

Pre-Production:

· Review shoot briefs and work with brand partners to ensure shoot needs including creative direction, product focus and assortment, budgets, timelines, etc. are clear and complete.

· Partner with art directors and creative operations to turn briefs into production plans, including timelines, budgets, and resources.

· Build production schedules and timelines for both the internal creative team and any external talent and partners, develop cost estimates and budgets.

· Source, coordinate, and negotiate contracts and budgets with crew, talent, photographers, videographers, stylists, and other vendors. Partner with procurement team, when needed.

· Work with art directors and internal stakeholders to ensure mood-boards, creative direction, and shot lists are aligned with the brief.

· Lead pre-production meetings and coordinate across departments, stakeholders, and external talent and production partners.

· Coordinate product samples with brand teams, ensuring items are ordered, received, and stored ahead of production.

· Secure COIs, permits, equipment, and catering, when needed.

On-Set:

· Provide shoot supervision and overall production oversight, managing productions end-to-end.

· Coordinate internal team, crew, talent, photographers, videographers, stylists, hair & makeup, and agencies on set.

· Manage and track shot progress, deliverables, and budget/resource allocation, keeping production pacing on schedule.

· Run set-readiness checks and quality oversight, troubleshooting issues and facilitating live problem-solving.

· Keep the team and stakeholders updated throughout the shoot day, managing time, approvals, and on-set logistics.

Post-Production:

· Coordinate wrap logistics, invoicing, budget reconciliation, and expense tracking.

· Manage handoffs to edit, retouch, color grading, sound mix, and motion graphics teams.

· Plan post-production review sessions, consolidate feedback, and coordinate revisions through to final approval and delivery.

· Partner with CCH DAM Manager to maintain master asset management, usage rights tracking, file delivery, archiving, and final asset distribution/ rollout.

· Run production debriefs, capture lessons learned and team feedback, and report on project closeout and campaign delivery.

Studio Management and Production Process:

· Maintain the creative photo studio space including equipment, props, product closet, and expendables and update and refresh as needed. Manage product sourcing, inventory, and organization for recurring productions.

· Assess when updates and improvements to the physical space are needed and work with Office Services and necessary vendors to action.

· Build and maintain relationships with a reliable freelance crew network; assess and onboard new vendors as the studio grows.

· Continuously assess and refine both internal and external production workflows. Identify and propose improvements that increase production efficiency and content quality over time.

## Qualifications

Qualifications

· 7+ years of photo production experience, ideally in-house or at an agency, managing photo and video productions from concept to delivery.

· Deep understanding of production processes from large scale campaigns to quick content capture, and experience managing multiple shoots at once.

· Proven ability to manage timelines, shot lists, and production crews end-to-end.

· Knowledge of up-to-date industry standard rates for talent, services, usage rights, etc. Strong negotiation and budgeting skills and experience working on productions with large campaign budgets as well as tight, scrappy budgets.

· Ability to help translate creative vision into efficient, cost-effective production execution, while maintaining brand standards and aesthetic.

· Existing network and relationships with photographers, retouchers, stylists, talent agencies, and other production-related partners.

· A proactive, collaborative, solutions-first mindset with a calm, composed presence on set and a can-do approach.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

· Experience interfacing and building relationships with multiple stakeholders and functions across a large, matrixed organization.

· Excellent knowledge of varying file formats and resolutions for social, digital, print.

· Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, juggling multiple projects and priorities at all times, with resilience, adaptability, and a solutions-oriented mindset.

· Experience with Wrike, or similar project management tools are a plus.

· Knowledge of photo, video, and lighting equipment. Experience managing a photo studio space a plus.

· Some domestic travel required.

Pay Range:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $124,200.00 to $214,450.00. 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,

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.

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

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.