Creative Director, Luxury Hospitality Campaigns

Dream Then Go LLC; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Flexible schedule

Paid time off

Job summary

Dream Then Go LLC in Philadelphia seeks a Lead Creative Director to shape hospitality and lifestyle campaigns from strategy to on-set direction, ensuring brand standards and business objectives translate into standout visuals.

You will produce treatments, mood boards, production briefs, and platform-native concepts for Reels and short-form content, collaborating across teams and traveling for select hotel productions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in creative direction, art direction, brand content, or related field.
• Portfolio showing personally directed photography, video, and campaign work.
• Strong visual judgment across composition, lighting, styling, and cinematic storytelling.
• Hospitality, travel, luxury, lifestyle, or premium consumer brand experience preferred.
• Fluency in Instagram, TikTok, Reels, and short-form storytelling.
• Experience directing external creative teams and talent, plus strong client presentation skills.
• Ability to create treatments, mood boards, storyboards, and production briefs.
• Working familiarity with Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, or comparable tools.
• Ability to balance creative ambition, brand compliance, timelines, and commercial objectives.
• Based in the Philadelphia area; available to work on-site in Philadelphia five days per week.
• Willing to travel for select hotel productions.

Responsibilities

• Set overarching creative direction for client productions and campaigns.
• Turn hotel positioning, destination, audience, brand standards, and business objectives into actionable creative ideas.
• Create treatments, mood boards, references, visual narratives, and campaign concepts.
• Drive creative pre-production, including approving shot concepts and shot lists.
• Brief photographers, videographers, talent, and stylists.
• Direct mood, composition, talent behavior, pacing, and storytelling during select productions.
• Partner with the Head of Production to execute the creative vision while Production manages logistics, crew, equipment, budgets, and schedules.
• Develop platform-native concepts for Reels, short-form video, carousels, creator-style content, and recurring series.
• Ensure deliverables include polished brand assets plus adaptable social content.
• Collaborate with Social and Account teams using audience behavior, engagement, paid performance, and conversion insights to refine creative direction.
• Apply standards for major hospitality brands while maintaining each property’s distinct identity.
• Review selects and creative deliverables including photography, video edits, music, typography, sequencing, and outputs.
• Own creative approvals and collaborate on technical quality assurance with the Head of Production.
• Present concepts and creative rationale to clients and senior stakeholders; manage feedback while defending creative intent constructively.
• Stay current on generative AI and AI-assisted concepting; use AI responsibly without compromising authenticity.
• Deliver distinctive, brand-right concepts and clear, actionable production briefs.

Skills

Creative direction

Art direction

Brand storytelling

Client presentations

Short-form storytelling

Travel willingness

Tools

Canva

Adobe Creative Cloud

Figma

Instagram

TikTok

Reels

Job description

Dream Then Go LLC in Philadelphia seeks a Lead Creative Director to shape hospitality and lifestyle campaigns from strategy to on-set direction, ensuring brand standards and business objectives translate into standout visuals.

You will produce treatments, mood boards, production briefs, and platform-native concepts for Reels and short-form content, collaborating across teams and traveling for select hotel productions.