Vice President, Head of Creative, Kiehl's DMI

Location: 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY (Please confirm if this is accurate and add state)

Reports To: Global President, Kiehl’s

Who We Are:

For over a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer everyone worldwide the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity, and responsibility, satisfying diverse beauty needs and desires.

L’Oréal Luxe’s mission is to provide consumers with unique and exceptional product and brand experiences. Our portfolio comprises 21 prestigious brands, including Lancôme, Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, and Youth to the People.

What You Will Do:

As Vice President of Global Creative for Kiehl’s, you will shape the creative vision for this iconic brand, inspiring a high-performing team of creative professionals. You will pioneer the brand’s creative direction, ensuring its consistent and inspiring expression across every customer interaction, both online and offline. This includes overseeing cutting-edge retail design and impactful visual merchandising (FSS, travel retail, wholesale, and events). You will mentor and develop a team of talented creatives, overseeing the creation and production of compelling creative assets. Strong collaboration with DMI, US teams, external artists, and agencies is essential.

Responsibilities:

Aesthetic Vision & Consistency:

• Define and champion the overall creative vision for Kiehl’s.
• Own and maintain the Kiehl’s brand guidelines and master document.
• Ensure aesthetic consistency across all creative assets (brand creative, e-commerce, educational materials, eventing, graphic identity, social media, retail design, video, visual merchandising, and omni-media assets), excluding some agency-created production content.
• Partner with Global Marketing on agency management, consulting, and guiding creative for agency-developed assets.
• Design and implement the brand guidelines book across all relevant teams and projects.

Asset Creation:

• Lead and contribute to the creative vision and direction, creating and producing innovative omni-media assets (visuals, social media, video/film) with digital relevance.
• Review and consult on asset designs created by Marketing, Communications, Digital/CRM, and agencies.
• Design graphic charters for the brand and specific projects.
• Optimize resources, talent, schedules, and budgets.
• Collaborate with external agencies on brand initiatives, digital orchestrations, retail design, merchandising, and architecture.
• Conceptualize and launch groundbreaking marketing campaigns (B, C, and occasionally A-level).
• Partner with key stakeholders across Marketing, Owned & Operated (O+O), and Communications to drive impactful results.

Key Working Relationships:

• Partner with external agencies on strategic direction for A-level launches.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Brand Engagement, and Omni-channel teams.
• Communicate effectively (verbally, written, and visually) with all partners.

Job Dimensions:

Direct Reports: 7

Total Team Size: 10

What We Are Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience as a design leader, Creative Director, or in a role reporting to a Creative Director for a major brand or agency.
• Excellent Adobe Creative Suite skills.
• Creative, bold, and digitally savvy.
• Strong sense of style, taste, and typography.
• Self-starter, comfortable in a fast-paced environment, organized, detail-oriented, collaborative, and flexible.
• 5+ years of experience managing teams of 4+ people.
• Proven ability to lead diverse, high-performing teams with multiple and competing priorities.
• Deep understanding of skincare/beauty and pop culture trends.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What’s In It For You:

• Salary Range: $172,400.00-$250,000.00
• Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)
• Hybrid Work Policy (3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home)
• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)
• Learning & Development Opportunities (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs

Don’t meet every single requirement?At L’Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

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