Barcelona Creative Studio Director: Lead Teams

Spherical; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Spherical in Barcelona is seeking a Creative Studio Director to lead its Barcelona studio and shape a multidisciplinary team across brand, digital, campaigns, content, photography, film, and design.

The role combines senior creative leadership with people development, studio management, and strategic collaboration with Heads of Creative and cross-functional partners to raise the bar on quality and impact.

Formación

• 10+ years of experience across design, art direction, creative direction, or multidisciplinary creative environments.
• Significant experience leading and developing creative teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing creative talent through coaching, feedback, mentorship, and career development.
• A sophisticated portfolio demonstrating exceptional creative judgment, ideas, and craft.
• Broad experience across several creative disciplines, ideally including brand, digital, websites, campaigns, social, content, photography, film, and advertising.
• Strong understanding of how creative ideas translate across channels and experiences.
• Experience directing multidisciplinary teams around a shared creative vision.
• Strong organizational instincts and experience balancing creative ambition with priorities, timelines, and resourcing.
• Experience partnering with strategists, writers, producers, project managers, marketers, product teams, technologists, and external creative partners.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, including confidence working directly with senior clients.
• Excellent visual judgment, cultural awareness, curiosity, and attention to detail.
• Meaningful experience in hospitality, travel, luxury, lifestyle, or similarly experiential brands.
• Genuine interest in hotels, travel, design, culture, and place.
• Fluency in English.
• Experience working directly with luxury hotels, independent properties, hospitality groups, or global hotel brands is strongly preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Lead Spherical’s Barcelona creative studio across brand, digital, web, social, campaigns, advertising, content, photography, film, and design.
• Build a strong studio culture where people share ideas, challenge one another, learn, and care deeply about the work.
• Provide senior creative review across work in progress, strengthening ideas, execution, craft, and coherence.
• Help creative direction enter projects early enough to meaningfully shape the work.
• Translate overarching creative direction into clear guidance for multidisciplinary teams.
• Bring disciplines together around shared ideas rather than disconnected deliverables.
• Coach and mentor creatives at different stages of their careers.
• Establish strong rhythms around critique, feedback, training, and development.
• Understand individual strengths and development needs and create opportunities for people to grow.
• Work closely with the Head of Creative to maintain and raise Spherical’s creative standards.
• Partner with Content, Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Product & Technology, Production, and Project Management.
• Assemble the right creative teams around projects based on the needs of the work and the strengths of individual people.
• Maintain visibility across active work and help make thoughtful decisions around priorities, capacity, and resourcing.
• Work with project and operations teams to keep work moving effectively while protecting creative quality.
• Help teams build broader creative systems and ideas that can live across channels and experiences.
• Lead collaborative working sessions and critiques.
• Participate in key client presentations and creative conversations with clarity and confidence.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen the studio through recruiting, freelance relationships, training, tools, and evolving ways of working.
• Help shape the continued evolution of Spherical’s creative practice and Barcelona studio.

Conocimientos

10+ years experience across design,art

Leading and developing creative teams

Coaching and mentorship

Strong presentation and communication

Hospitality experience

Fluency in English

Descripción del empleo

Spherical in Barcelona is seeking a Creative Studio Director to lead its Barcelona studio and shape a multidisciplinary team across brand, digital, campaigns, content, photography, film, and design.

The role combines senior creative leadership with people development, studio management, and strategic collaboration with Heads of Creative and cross-functional partners to raise the bar on quality and impact.