**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** The Design Manager role is to provide strategic leadership, product designs, and direction in creating impactful packaging designs that align with the brand's objectives and marketing strategy. This role involves managing multiple projects, overseeing the entire packaging design process, and making critical decisions to drive innovation and maintain brand consistency. The Design Manager is responsible for problem-solving design challenges, collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring budget adherence, and fostering a creative and collaborative work environment. By effectively leading the design team and making informed decisions, the Design Manager plays a crucial role in enhancing the visual identity and market positioning of Clinique products. + Manage day-to-day operations, projects, and deliverables + Ensure adherence to brand guidelines + Create product designs (primary and secondary) in line with ELC needs and markets trends + Make strategic design decisions in alignment with brand objectives + Determine packaging design directions and concepts + Select suppliers and manage vendor relationships + Evaluate and approve design proposals, prototypes, and proofs. **Qualifications** + 5+ years of related experience. + Bachelor's degree in industrial design, package design, graphic design, or related field required. + Highly organized, timely ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines. + Challenges standard practices and applies new and different ways of thinking as necessary. + Strong knowledge of industrial and manufacturing processes, finishes, materials, and printing techniques. + Strong organization skills for file management and archiving. + Astute sense of color for review and approval of samples/proofs. + Strong ability to provide context and think strategically about the packaging language and ecosystem as a whole. + Creates and sustains environment of trust and collaboration. + Actively builds relationships across disciplines and with external partners. + Excellent communication skills, ability to speak to creative vision and execution as well as tactical conversations across disciplines. + Flexible and adaptable tochanging priorities and design shifts. + Mastery in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) Microsoft office. + Precise and detailed 3D modeling/rendering ability (Rhino, Solidworks, Keyshot) a major plus. **Pay Range:** The anticipated base salary range for this position is **$85,000.00** **to** **$139,600.00** **.** Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage, 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 **Equal Opportunity Employer** It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact USApplicantAccommodations@Estee.com. **Michigan Applicants:** Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for employment must notify the company in writing of the need for an accommodation within 182 days after the date the person with a disability knew or reasonably should have known that an accommodation was needed. **Philadelphia Applicants:** Philadelphia's Fair Chance Hiring Law (https://www.phila.gov/media/20240326142036/V6-Fireball-Handout-fairchance-E-S.pdf) **Rhode Island Applicants:** The company is subject to chapters 29-38 of title 28 of the general laws of Rhode Island and is therefore covered by the state's workers' compensation law. Equal Opportunity Employer It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact USApplicantAccommodations@Estee.com.