As Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President, Enterprise Marketing, board member, shareholder and family member, Jane Lauder holds a unique role in the 75-year plus prestige beauty company founded by her grandmother, Estée Lauder.
In her role as Chief Data Officer, Jane has accelerated ELC’s enterprise-wide innovation strategy, including deployment of AI and ground-breaking technology tools to advance the way the company gathers and applies consumer insights, trends and high-touch experiences. She leads ELC’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force and has been instrumental in defining and deploying the company’s global AI strategies in support of enterprise operations and consumer outreach. Jane leverages her deep understanding of data and consumer marketing using a “math and magic” approach to drive ELC’s marketing, media, digital and data.
Prior to her 2020 appointment to the dual ELC enterprise roles, Jane had extensive brand experience with the company, serving as Global Brand President for Clinique, where she tripled the beauty giant’s online business and launched the brand’s breakthrough digital skin diagnostic tool, Clinique Clinical Reality, which uses 50 years of proprietary clinical data and dermatologist expertise. As Brand President for the Origins, Ojon, and Darphin brands, Jane helped reposition the Origins brand to focus on nature powered by science and launched two of the brand’s bestselling products, Plantscription and Ginzing.
A passionate advocate of talent, Jane leads ELC’s gender equity strategy and serves as the executive chair of the company’s global women in leadership efforts. Her commitment to support women in STEM extends beyond ELC with an endowed Data Science professorship at Stanford University, her alma mater, focused on educating next gen leaders’ development of analytical and quantitative insights for tackling data driven problems in science, industry, and society.
Jane joined the ELC Board of Directors in 2009. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library, the Board of Directors of the Friends of the High Line in New York City, and the Board of Directors of Silicon Valley-based Eventbrite. Jane is a member of the Council of the School of Humanities and Sciences, a strategic advisory group to the Dean of Humanities and Science at Stanford University, which includes strategic input into the University’s AI policies and processes.
Jane earned a B.A. in History from Stanford University and currently resides in New York City.
