In this role, on the talented team that makes up our in⁃house creative agency, ELC Studios, you'll be working closely with a team of creatives and alongside our prestigious beauty brands to concept, ideate and execute meaningful and impactful visual content and advertising across the Estée Lauder portfolio. Collaborating closely with art directors, photographers, videographers, designers and retouchers, you will be helping to lead our team towards creative excellence at our cutting⁃edge office and content studio, based in central London.

You will work within the Creative team ideating and designing graphic layouts, compositions, type treatments and aesthetics, from the bold and impactful to the minimal and luxury. You will deliver graphic designs and content creatively, on brief and on brand. Working on a varied mix of briefs, from generating ideas and creating social content designs from scratch, art working and presentation design, to storyboarding motion content, to designing for conceptual advertising and campaign work, you will create beautiful, captivating multi⁃channel design projects with a consumer⁃centric, strategic approach.

WHAT THIS ROLE DOES

• Developing and delivering impactful, beautiful, cutting⁃edge designs, to enrich our brand storytelling, from initial designs and visualisation to execution and delivery. Supporting creative development throughout the project.
• Working across a range of platforms and channels from in⁃store (window artwork, lightboxes, lithos, pricing strips, POS) to online, social, print & OOH.
• Able to flex across art working projects and more creative tasks.
• Working on concepts, through to design and technical detailing as well as editing existing typography, layout, composition and general design.
• Ensuring a high quality of design work across all design projects.
• Facilitate collaborative relationships between fellow Designers, Copywriters, Art Directors, Retouchers and Videographers.
• Living and breathing our vision to create original, best⁃in⁃class work that speaks to its audience, informed by strategy, data and best practices, taking learnings from post campaign analysis and reporting.
• Ensuring adherence to brand guidelines and consistency across brand touchpoints in all their work and communicating to help to ensure consistency as a team.
• Developing close relationships with Art Directors and brands to ensure the overarching vision is realised.
• Working closely with Producers on projects towards the shared goal of delivering on time and on brief.
• Presenting creative ideas and storyboards independently, communicating ideas clearly and confidently.
• Collaborating with copywriters to ensure we are landing the right messaging.
• Interrogating briefs and making creative recommendations.
• Supporting the Art Direction team with photography projects, hands⁃on art direction.
• Owning quality control.
• Support Art Directors in creating detailed toolkit guideline documents for advertising campaigns, brand books and style guides.
• Acting as an ambassador of creativity, contributing to the creative culture of the team by sharing emerging trends in design and culture.
• Working with printers when required.
• Being involved in the communication of guideline documents to third⁃party agencies.
• Supporting all stakeholders.
• Supporting other team members, onboarding freelancers.
• Feeding back on creative processes and offering solutions.

Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate a wide range of experience in graphic design with an excellent eye for detail.
• Excellent typography and layout skills, with composition, colour and type.
• Digital and mobile⁃first mindset in design with guidance, showing awareness of competitive landscape and trends.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Able to turn a brief into a creative concept.
• An understanding of creative processes and art direction.
• Strong management skills.
• Ability to understand technical and design constraints with display advertising.
• Excellent organisation and presentation.
• Able to visualize concepts into storyboards or mood boards.
• Ability to bring to life corporate presentations.
• Strong team player with willingness to share skills.
• Office 365⁃ Excel, Powerpoint and Word.
• Understanding of the importance of visual storytelling.
• Able to demonstrate an idea.
• Ability to pivot and adapt to change.
• Time management skills: hitting deadlines, organising and liaising with producers to map out timelines.
• Refined taste levels with a rich and varied frame of reference.
• An awareness of luxury and beauty markets.
• Excellent problem⁃solving and negotiation skills.
• 5+ years experience in graphic design either agency, beauty or luxury brand.
• Educated to Degree level or have relevant experience in their appropriate discipline and management experience.
• Experience in answering design briefs at global campaign level.
• Experience with the admin side of creative⁃timesheets, filing, budgets and timings.

Must haves:

• Digital⁃mobile⁃first mindset coupled with consumer⁃first thinking
• Drive for innovation and disruption with a luxury mindset
• Experience in 360 design from social channels to in⁃store
• Ability to think strategically
• Experience in file preparation for digital and print
• Interest in the beauty sector
• Understanding of marketing objectives
• Awareness of emerging trends
• Proactivity, positive can⁃do attitude
• Collaborative mindset
• Experience working with global guidelines
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Good leadership skills

Nice to haves:

• Experience in 3D visualization and Figma and advantage
• Knowledge of digital platforms, audiences, nuances and best practices
• Knowledge of production
• Knowledge of creative process best practices
• Illustration skills
• Experience working closely with copywriters
• Willing and available to work outside of normal working hours as required to fulfil duties