Interim Senior Art Director

Interim, Senior Art Director

Position Summary

The Interim, Senior Art Director is responsible for concepting the visual direction and execution of 360° creative for e.l.f. Cosmetics and e.l.f. SKIN, ensuring brand consistency, elevated design, and strong storytelling across connected commerce (360° visual touchpoints and channels spanning digital, social, retail and more). This role bridges concept and execution—reporting into the Senior Creative Directors, mentoring designers, and partnering with cross-functional teams to bring compelling campaigns to life in a fast-paced, high-volume environment based on marketing and business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead art direction and design execution for e.l.f. Cosmetics and SKIN across 360° channels including visual merchandising, email, paid media, social, elfcosmetics.com, retailer eComm, site enhancements.
• Partner with the Senior Creative Directors to concept and execute campaigns that align with brand strategy, audience insights, and business goals.
• Translate creative briefs, audience insights, and product storytelling into compelling, brand-right visual systems and experiences.
• Own visual consistency, typography, layout, and design quality across varying platforms and formats.
• Demonstrate strengths in creative thinking and provide clear art direction and feedback to designers, supporting their growth while ensuring high creative standards.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Brand Marketing, eCommerce, UX, Social, Visual Merchandising, Integrated Marketing, and external partners from concept through execution.
• Present creative work internally, articulating design rationale and addressing feedback with solution-oriented thinking.
• Design with a mobile-first, digital-first mindset, ensuring assets are optimized for performance and channel best practices.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining timelines and priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Stay current on beauty, skincare, clean beauty, fashion, design, and social trends—translating them into relevant, effective creative.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in creative or digital design roles within fast-paced, high-volume environments (beauty, fashion, or lifestyle industries a plus).
• 4+ years of direct experience in art direction, campaign work, visual merchandising, and eCommerce or performance-driven creative. 2+ years of management experience.
• Knowledge of computer programs including: Adobe Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator, Figma, digital animation software.
• Familiarity in emerging platforms in AI and how they supplement and enhance human creativity.
• Strong typography, layout, and visual storytelling skills across digital formats (email, paid media, social, site).
• Meet stringent deadlines, quickly managing changing priorities
• Ability to anticipate workload and communicate proactively to Project Manager
• Ability to balance business objectives with creative vision and brand integrity.
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented working style working at speed in an evolving workflow
• Ability to pivot quickly while maintaining high creative standards across different verticals.
• Passion and understanding of skincare, beauty, design and cultural trends.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Compensation & Benefits

$105,000 - $140,000 a year

Total compensation includes base salary, annual company-based performance bonus, and equity. Under e.l.f.'s annual bonus program, employees are eligible to earn up to 200% of their target bonus when company performance exceeds defined goals. In addition, e.l.f. provides a variety of other benefits to employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a retirement savings plan, gender neutral parental leave, and unlimited paid time off.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days at home)

Location

New York, NY