Assistant Manager, 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. POSITION OVERVIEW Title: Assistant Manager, Content Production – North America Reports to: Director, Content Production CCH Team: The Americas Creative Content Hub The Assistant Manager, Content Production is responsible for producing photo and video shoots for the North America Creative team. This includes social and lo-fi content, still life product shoots, and ecomm, as well as assisting with large scale campaigns. The assistant producer will work closely with the Director of Content Production, art directors, photographers, videographers, and external vendors to help drive shoots from initial brief through final asset delivery, while managing timelines, budgets, stakeholder approvals, and logistics. Description Responsibilities: General Production: Manage multiple productions across brands simultaneously. Anticipate changes, risks, and roadblocks and proactively take steps to mitigate and resolve or escalate when needed. 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. 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 Director of Production, 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 and coordinate with crew, talent, photographers, videographers, stylists, and other vendors. Partner with Director of Production to negotiate budgets and 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 …

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