Associate Art Director, Digital Design & Content

New York City, NY (On-site)

$85K/yr – $140K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 11 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end digital design and content creation for ecommerce, from site refreshes and product launches to social video and email campaigns, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver a connected consumer experience.

  • Lead site, email, and social content design for a high-volume ecommerce business.
  • Create short-form video and photography content aligned with brand and platform needs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Exceptional creative taste with a portfolio demonstrating stellar digital design, typography, content creation, and visual storytelling.
  • Strong graphic design foundation with the ability to concept and execute across ecommerce, email, social, and paid media.
  • Hands-on experience creating short-form video content, including concepting, storyboarding, shooting, and editing.
  • Strong understanding of social platforms, trends, and platform-native content, particularly TikTok and Instagram.
  • Understanding of UX/UI, mobile-first design, email marketing standards, and digital production requirements.
  • Strong communicator and presenter who can confidently share ideas while remaining open to feedback and direction.
  • Curious, collaborative, self-motivated, and low ego, with a genuine desire to learn, experiment, and grow.
  • Thrives in a fast-paced environment with strong organization, attention to detail, and a solutions-oriented mindset

Preferred

  • 5+ years of digital design and/or content creation experience; ecommerce experience strongly preferred.
  • Passion for photography and making content; experience shooting products, beauty, or social content is a strong plus.
  • Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma; video editing and motion capabilities strongly preferred.
  • Knowledge of CMS platforms and basic HTML/CSS is a plus.
  • Knowledge of TikTok Shop, social commerce, UGC, and performance-driven content is a plus.
  • Experience with AI creative tools – or a strong curiosity and willingness to learn – is highly valued.
  • Experience within beauty, fashion, luxury, retail, or another design-driven industry preferred.

Benefits

  • 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.
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Estée Lauder Companies

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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 outstanding 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.To explore our current job openings, go to www.elcompanies.com

Founded in 2007
New York, New York, USA
55K employees (6,397 in marketing)
72% recommend to a friend
72% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$85K/yr – $140K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$5.2B
Last Raise
$2.5B
Post IPO Equity, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • May 2025
    Post IPO Equity
  • Jun 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $2.5B
  • Feb 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $650M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
716.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.2%
Direct
50.3%
Referral
14.5%
Social
4%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~55.2K

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Associate Art Director, Digital Design & Content

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