Director, Content Production - North America

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Preferred

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

Benefits

• 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, 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.