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.

• 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.
• Coordinate product samples with brand teams, ensuring items are ordered, received, and stored ahead of production.
• Secure COIs, permits, equipment, and catering, when needed.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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…