Senior Production Artist, Automation
Date: Mar 11, 2026
Location: Long Island City, NY, US, 11101
Company: ELC Beauty LLC
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 Senior Production Artist is a technical leader within Global R&D Artwork Operations, responsible for designing, building, and validating, automated artwork and packaging solutions that accelerate the end‑to‑end artwork development process. This role serves as the department’s subject matter expert on automation technologies—particularly automated artwork template development and system integrations—to enhance speed‑to‑market, reduce operational costs, ensure regulatory compliance, and strengthen business continuity. This position plays a critical role in ELC’s digital transformation by driving template automation at scale, reducing reliance on external contractors, and enabling operational agility across ~20 global brands.
- Design, develop, implement, and validate automated artwork templates that support global packaging artwork needs.
- Build reusable automation components that enable significant reductions in manual artwork execution time.
- Ensure automated templates meet regulatory, brand, and technical requirements across multiple product categories and markets.
- Partner with artwork, regulatory, and system teams to ensure seamless integration of templates into operational workflows.
- Analyze and report performance data to identify opportunities for optimization and automation expansion. Support robust reporting capabilities.
- Serve as the department’s automation expert and consultant for new use cases, troubleshooting, and solution design.
- Train, mentor, and upskill internal team members in template-building, full and semi-automated production.
- Document automation logic, workflows, and best practices to ensure continuity and scalability.
- Collaborate with leadership and global partners to identify opportunities to scale automation across brands and markets.
- Maintain ongoing refinement of the automation system to align with emerging business needs and compliance requirements.
Qualifications
- University Degree Required
- Minimum 4 years experience
- Expertise in Daena automated artwork template creation and workflow automation.
- Experience with artwork management systems, and digital production tools.
- Strong analytical skills with experience building measurable, repeatable efficiency improvements.
- Ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Experience in consumer-packaged goods (CPG), cosmetics, or tightly regulated industries.
- Experience with regulatory compliance requirements related to packaging artwork.
- Experience managing cross-functional technical projects.
- Strong communication, training, and documentation skills.
- Work effectively with cross-functional partners and build trusted relationships.
- Act as a proactive steward of the automation ecosystem, ensuring continuous improvement.
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
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.
Nearest Major Market: Brooklyn
Nearest Secondary Market: New York City