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. Description Responsibilities: General Production: 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. 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 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. 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 delivery, archiving, and final asset distribution/ rollout. Run production debriefs, capture lessons learned and team feedback, and report on project closeout and campaign delivery. Studio Management and Production Process: 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 Office Services and necessary vendors to action. Build and maintain relationships with a reliable freelance crew network; assess and onboard new vendors as the studi…

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