Interim Head of Global Creative, Maternity Leave Coverage

Launched in 2015, Sol de Janeiro is a globally recognized, award-winning beauty brand, drawing inspiration from Brazil’s beauty rituals, warmth, and spirit. Sol de Janeiro delivers a sensory experience beloved by multi-generational consumers worldwide, with clinically proven results, transformative textures, and transportive fragrances.  

Headquartered in New York and launched as a digitally native brand, we have expanded globally with teams in Paris, London, and Germany. Our commitment to excellence has earned high-profile honors, including being named one of TIME100’s 2024 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s 2024 World's Most Innovative Companies, and WWD Beauty Inc’s Power Brands of 2024, underscoring its leadership in the beauty industry and outstanding workplace. These accolades highlight our dedication to being a leading brand in the beauty industry and an exceptional workplace. 

We are seeking an exceptional Interim Head of Global Creative to provide maternity leave coverage for our SVP, Global Creative in a high-impact executive assignment. You are a seasoned creative leader who can step in seamlessly, command a large multi-disciplinary team, and drive brand-building creative at the highest level.

You will lead a 35+ person Creative Department spanning four key disciplines: Creative Design, Brand Voice, Packaging Design, and Creative + Marketing PMO. You will develop and execute forward-thinking brand creative under the direct leadership of the CEO and in close partnership with 360 Marketing Team, ensuring all output aligns with Sol de Janeiro’s strategic vision, prestige positioning, and joyful brand ethos. The ideal candidate is equally at home concepting a global campaign and running a weekly executive alignment. You bring the eye of a world-class creative director and the operational command of a proven department head.

Sol de Janeiro believes that a positive work culture makes all the difference. The celebration of every body that we promote to our consumers, we also promote in our offices. We are collaborative team players who know that individual growth is just as important as company growth. We lead with kindness and with respect. We set goals to elevate our individual performance within the company, and we coach teams through complex approval processes and fast-paced workflows.

• Step in for the SVP, Global Creative with a structured overlap period to shadow, onboard, and offboard strategically — ensuring full continuity of existing workflows and priorities.
• Under the vision of the CEO and in close partnership with the Senior Marketing Leaders, lead all brand creative for Sol de Janeiro — from omni-channel campaign concepting to GTM delivery.
• Develop immersive, breakthrough brand storytelling and campaign concepts that work across all channels and touchpoints, globally.
• Deeply internalize Sol de Janeiro’s brand DNA, including its relationship to Brazilian art, history, and cultural influence, and ensure this heritage is reflected consistently across all creative output.
• Leverage performance data, consumer insights, brand strategy, and product team input to inform forward-thinking, consumer-first creative concepts.
• Oversee the development, maintenance, and elevation of Brand Guidelines and channel-, campaigns with internal and external parties.
• Coach teams towards AI integration across all 4 disciplines.

Train, mentor, and empower all team leads to operate at the highest level — fostering cross-functional collaboration, shared learnings, and continuous improvement across all disciplines. Direct executive leadership across the following teams.

• Creative Design — Art direction, brand image, campaign concepting and campaign design execution across 360 touchpoints. Overseeing all visual details of internal and external productions
• Brand Voice — Copy direction across all channels and touchpoints; ensuring a consistent, distinct, and culturally resonant brand voice globally.
• Creative + Marketing PMO — End-to-end project management oversight ensuring flawless workflow design, on-time delivery, and process improvement, striving toward continuous improvement of timelines and process clarity toward excellence across the creative organization. This includes budget management for all creative spend with an eye to cost-efficiencies and ROI.
• Packaging Design — Leadership of packaging creative, ensuring all structural and graphic design decisions reinforce brand positioning and prestige standards.

• Serve as the primary creative voice in executive partnerships across Product Marketing, Brand Comms, Consumer Insights, and Commercial teams.
• Build fast-forming, productive cross-functional relationships with fellow functional leaders — understanding that partnership is a horizontal strength, not a top-down hierarchy.
• Ensure all creative output aligns with both short-term business priorities and long-term brand equity goals, consistently connecting creative decisions to measurable brand and commercial outcomes.
• Lead stakeholder reviews, present creative vision clearly and compellingly to executive audiences, and manage expectations cross-functionally when timelines or resources create tension with executional excellence.
• Collaborate with GTM Team and fellow Global Leads to establish Regional Toolkit Cascades and Post-Mortem Review processes, ensuring Regional Teams receive actionable, consistent feedback that upholds Brand Equity and Growth goals.

• Oversee all work produced by both internal studio teams and external creative agencies, ensuring every output — regardless of origin — upholds Sol de Janeiro’s Global Brand Standards and Creative Directives.
• Extend in-house leadership standards to all external partners; serve as the final creative authority on agency output.
• Executive oversight of all creative budgets owned by Creative & Marketing Operations across contractors, external agencies, and production ensuring spend is strategic, efficient, and aligned with brand priorities.
• Maintain a robust professional network; leverage relationships to access best-in-class talent and partners quickly when needed.

• Fulfill all company requirements for functional leaders, operating as the senior representative of the Creative function within the broader leadership team.
• Work in close, ongoing partnership with the CEO and People Experience team to manage team health, departmental communications, performance expectations, and organizational development within the Creative department.
• Meet regularly with People Experience leadership to proactively address team dynamics, hiring needs, and manager effectiveness.
• Model and reinforce Sol de Janeiro’s cultural values through every dimension of your leadership — creating a high-performance department culture grounded in accountability, joy, and creative ambition.

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in creative leadership for global brands, with a demonstrated track record of building highly strategic, integrated omni-channel creative across all disciplines. Beauty industry experience required.
• Proven ability to lead large, multi-disciplinary creative departments. Ability to direct and coach, while also rolling up sleeves when needed.
• Celebrated Executive-level cross-functional collaborator — equally fluent in creative vision and business strategy; capable of connecting creative output to brand equity and commercial performance.
• Deep experience managing external agencies and holding them to rigorous brand standards.
• Celebrated people manager, inspiring mentor, and proven team builder with a coaching mindset.
• Portfolio demonstrating executed, ground-up 360 omni-channel brand Creative across branding, packaging and Omni-channel campaigns. Well versed in Brand Storytelling and Commercial landscape.
• Excellent public speaking, presentation, and listening skills; able to tailor communication style expertly to any audience, from Creative teams to the C-suite.
• Entrepreneurial spirit: thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments and knows how to align teams from top to bottom to move work forward decisively.
• A true beauty enthusiast that draws upon creative inspiration broadly— from culture, art, technology, in addition to the global consumer landscape.
• Must be present in the NYC office 3 days per week: with ability to travel for shoot production.

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• Competitive salary and bonus program for full-time team members
• Flexible hybrid work environment with opportunities for collaboration and growth
• Inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives and celebrates individuality
• The chance to be part of a fast-growing, award-winning global beauty brand

 The information contained herein is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee, as these may change or new ones may be assigned at any time. 

Sol de Janeiro is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. 

Requests for accommodation due to a disability or any other protected characteristic can be made at any stage of the recruitment process and during employment by contacting our People Experience Team at careers@soldejaneiro.com. 

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