- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Director
- Department
- E-Commerce, Digital & Data Analytics
- Posted
- Nov 9, 2026
About Clinique
Clinique, founded in 1968 and part of The Estée Lauder Companies, is a pioneering prestige beauty brand built on dermatologist-developed skincare, rigorous testing, and a promise of effective, individualized care. As an employer, Clinique offers professionals the opportunity to contribute to a globally respected house where science, service, and innovation meet. Its teams are united by a commitment to skin expertise, inclusive beauty, and trusted client relationships, whether in retail, education, marketing, product development, or corporate functions. Employees join a culture that values precision, learning, collaboration, and the confidence that comes from helping people achieve healthy, radiant skin.
Clinique is hiring an Executive Director, Performance Marketing to accelerate its online business and build marketing capabilities for retailer.com, optimizing retail media, sponsored products, eMerchandising and campaigns across key retailer sites. The role leads performance marketing strategy, analytics, budget and revenue reporting, customer-acquisition testing, and cross-functional planning with retailers, Supply Chain & Operations and Finance. Full-time, regular position.
Role & Responsibilities
- Accelerate online business by developing marketing capabilities for retailer.com and deploying and optimizing marketing to maximize conversion and visibility across key retailer sites, including retail media investment, sponsored products and eMerchandising.
- Partner with key retailers to deploy and optimize media campaigns, report results and develop new capabilities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to shape high-performing performance marketing practices and lead strategy and execution across search, display and onsite features and functionalities.
- Own marketing analytics and insights; work with data scientists and engineers to build dashboards, measure growth and revenue KPIs, and analyze performance data to improve results and drive sales on retailer sites.
- Oversee real-time execution and optimization to ensure efficient marketing investment.
- Report quarterly and annual marketing budgets and revenue targets to senior leadership in the Online Channel and North America Region.
- Lead ongoing testing of innovative customer-acquisition channels.
- Partner with Supply Chain & Operations and Finance to ensure accurate sales forecasts and align budgets and revenue targets with marketing investment for key shopping moments and high-traffic or promotional periods.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in analytical marketing roles, with hands-on media experience in performance marketing, growth marketing and/or paid search, including the ability to manage and optimize PPC campaigns.
- Strong growth marketing skills, retail experience and deep media knowledge.
- Ability to translate insights into action through analytics and the use of tools to deliver business outcomes.
- Proven experience with retailer media platforms, retailers' first-party data, retailer-sponsored products or paid search preferred; examples include Lazada, Amazon, Shopee, Tmall, AliExpress, Criteo and CitrusAd.
- Recognized thought leadership in retail media and paid search best practices, providing ongoing guidance to inform future strategies.
- Expertise across key digital media channels, including display, social, video, mobile, search and email, and understanding of how to target shoppers throughout the funnel and drive conversion.
- Ability to extract insights from data and summarize performance clearly and accessibly.
- Ability to craft compelling narratives from data and educate cross-functional partners, including brand marketing, online marketing, key retail account managers and data science teams.
- Adaptability in fast-paced, changing environments and curiosity to test new tactics.
- Proactive approach to identifying opportunities early and recommending innovative strategies and solutions.
- Strong time-management skills and ability to work across multiple brands concurrently.
Skills
Experience
10+ years in analytical marketing roles, with hands-on media experience in performance marketing, growth marketing and/or paid search.
Workplace
This position is based in New York, New York, USA.
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Culture
Clinique fosters a science-led, service-oriented workplace where teams are encouraged to combine dermatological expertise with empathy and personalized care. As part of a global prestige beauty environment, the brand values inclusivity, continuous learning, and high standards of professionalism, empowering employees to help clients feel confident in their skin.
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