Creative Brand Director — Shape Multi-Concept Hospitality

Happy-Camper; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off

Dining Discounts

Job summary

Happy Hospitality in Chicago seeks a Creative Brand Director to own the visual identity, storytelling, and brand voice across our multi-concept restaurant group. This role sits at the intersection of design, marketing, and hospitality, shaping how each concept looks, sounds, and feels at every guest touchpoint.

You'll work closely with ownership, operations, and marketing to keep each brand distinct while ensuring a consistent standard of creative quality.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of creative leadership experience, ideally in hospitality, restaurants, retail, or a related consumer-facing industry.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating brand identity work, art direction, and multi-channel campaign execution.
• Hands-on proficiency in design tools (Adobe Creative Suite or equivalent); comfort directing photo/video shoots.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the brand identity for each concept in the portfolio, ensuring consistency while preserving what makes each one distinct.
• Lead creative direction for menus, signage, packaging, merchandise, print collateral, and in-restaurant environmental design.
• Take a hands-on approach at the restaurant level and personally execute in-restaurant design work.
• Direct social media and digital content strategy — photography, video, and copy.
• Manage and mentor a small in-house creative team and oversee freelance photographers, videographers, and outside agencies.

Skills

Creative leadership

Brand identity

Project management

Collaboration

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Happy Hospitality in Chicago seeks a Creative Brand Director to own the visual identity, storytelling, and brand voice across our multi-concept restaurant group. This role sits at the intersection of design, marketing, and hospitality, shaping how each concept looks, sounds, and feels at every guest touchpoint.

You'll work closely with ownership, operations, and marketing to keep each brand distinct while ensuring a consistent standard of creative quality.