Creative Studio Director

Spherical; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Spherical is seeking a Creative Studio Director to lead our Barcelona studio, uniting brand, digital, web, social, campaigns, content, photography, film, and design into a cohesive multidisciplinary team. You will guide senior creative review, mentor talent, and ensure high-caliber output across channels.

You will partner with the Head of Creative to elevate standards, develop people, and shape the studio’s identity in a hospitality-forward context.

Formación

• 10+ years across design, art direction, creative direction, or multidisciplinary creative environments.
• Significant experience leading and developing creative teams.
• Demonstrated experience 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

Creative leadership

People leadership

Mentorship

Studio management

Strategic thinking

Presentations

Fluency in English

Descripción del empleo

Spherical is looking for a Creative Studio Director to lead our Barcelona creative studio and help build an exceptional multidisciplinary creative team. This is a senior leadership role for someone who combines strong creative judgment with people leadership, mentorship, and studio management. Our Barcelona studio brings together creatives working across brand, digital, web, social, campaigns, content, photography, film, and design. The opportunity is to help those disciplines operate as one connected creative team. We believe the strongest work happens when creative thinking enters early, teams understand the bigger idea they are building toward, and disciplines work together from the start. Working closely with Spherical’s Head of Creative, you will steward the quality of work flowing through the studio, develop the people behind it, connect the right talent around each assignment, and make sure teams have the clarity and resources they need to do exceptional work. Because hospitality is at the center of Spherical’s business, you should also understand what makes a hotel distinctive, from its place and design to its service, culture, and guest experience. You will be a senior creative presence in Barcelona and an important creative leader within Spherical globally.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What We’re Looking For

You are a senior creative who gets as much satisfaction from developing people and strengthening a team as you do from producing great work yourself. You have excellent taste and a broad creative lens. You can look at a brand identity, website, campaign, social concept, photograph, film, or piece of content and understand what will make it stronger. You think beyond individual executions and understand how a strong idea can create a coherent world across different disciplines and touchpoints. You know how to give clear feedback, build trust, challenge people thoughtfully, recognize individual strengths, and bring the right people together around the work. You bring structure to creativity without flattening it. You can help a studio stay organized and accountable while protecting curiosity, experimentation, and craft. You are comfortable moving between creative and studio leadership, from reviewing a concept and coaching a designer to helping resource a project or joining a senior client presentation. You also understand hospitality as an experience, not simply a category. You are a visible, engaged leader who wants to build creative culture in person.

Experience & Qualifications

• 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.

How the Role Fits at Spherical

Spherical is bringing its creative disciplines together into a more connected studio model. Our creative talent spans branding, digital design, web, content, social, campaigns, advertising, photography, film, and production. Barcelona brings many of those capabilities together physically and gives us the opportunity to operate as a true multidisciplinary creative studio. The Creative Studio Director leads that environment. You will work closely with our Head of Creative, who sets and stewards Spherical’s overarching creative vision and standards, as well as senior leaders across Content, Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Product, Technology, and Operations. Your role is to turn that ambition into a strong, functioning studio: developing people, strengthening the work, connecting disciplines, creating clearer ownership, and making sure the right creative conversations happen early enough to matter. Success will be visible in both the work and the team: stronger ideas, better craft, greater collaboration, growing talent, smarter use of resources, and a Barcelona studio with real identity and creative energy.

About Spherical

Spherical is The Agency for Inspired Hotels. We partner with independent hotels, hospitality groups, and leading global hotel brands to build brands and experiences that create meaningful connection between people and place. Our work spans Brand & Business Foundations, Commercial Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Creative, Content, Integrated Marketing, and Websites & Technology. From NewYork, Barcelona, and BuenosAires, our team brings these disciplines together to help distinctive hospitality brands understand what makes them meaningful, express it with clarity and imagination, and connect with the people they are here to serve. We care deeply about hotels, travel, culture, design, and the role hospitality can play in making places more alive. We’re looking for people who want to help us build what comes next.