Creative Director - Lake Tahoe Proper & Dallas Proper

USA (Remote)

$150K/yr – $175K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative narrative for two luxury properties from pre-opening through launch by combining hands-on design with brand leadership across hospitality touchpoints and partnerships.

  • Own end-to-end brand identity, guidelines, and guest/investor touchpoints across two distinct properties.
  • Lead external agencies and high-profile partners while contributing hands-on production and AI-assisted workflows.
  • Drive multi-channel assets and experiences including F&B, membership, events, and the full digital and physical presence.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead naming and identity development for all venues and spaces across both properties, working with the creative agency and Kelly Wearstler’s team
  • Establish and maintain brand standards and guidelines that hold across two distinct properties
  • Ensure creative consistency across every guest-facing and investor-facing touchpoint
  • Execute graphic design work directly; this role requires hands-on production alongside creative direction, with an ability to leverage AI tools to work efficiently
  • Develop co-branded merchandise, investor welcome packages, and prospect-facing materials for both properties
  • Direct the Cal Neva 100 Summer 2026 program: 10+ investor and member events with custom invitations, collateral, signage, and post-event content
  • Produce membership acquisition materials and ongoing communications through opening
  • Run social media and email content programming across both properties, always-on across all channels
  • Direct photography and video for all venues, lifestyle, spa, retail, racquet, and adventure programming
  • Develop and maintain the full website presence for both properties through and beyond opening

Requirements

  • 8+ years of creative leadership experience at a hospitality, lifestyle, or luxury brand, ideally through a property or brand launch
  • Proven ability to hold a brand vision at the highest level while managing execution across many concurrent workstreams
  • Experience managing external creative agencies and high-profile design partners
  • A strong graphic design portfolio demonstrating hands-on production ability; able to produce polished work independently, not just direct others
  • Strong editorial sensibility across visual identity, print, digital, photography, video, and environmental design
  • Fluency across hospitality brand touchpoints including F&B, membership, retail, events, and the guest experience
  • Comfortable in a pre-opening environment: building systems, deciding with incomplete information, and moving fast without sacrificing quality
  • Collaborative, low-ego style; this role succeeds through influence as much as authority

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits to meaningful development programs, Proper is designed to help you build a career, and a life, that feels as inspiring as the experiences we create for our guests.
  • Our Commitment: Building the Best Place to Work
  • Our Best Place to Work initiative is a living commitment — a continuous investment in our people, our culture, and our purpose. We listen, learn, and evolve together to create an environment where everyone feels empowered to imagine boldly, achieve confidently, care deeply, and present themselves authentically.
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Proper Hospitality

Proper Hospitality designs, brands, and operates high-end lifestyle hospitality experiences under the Proper, Hotel June and The Collective brands. Each property is a distinct reflection of the vibrant community surrounding it, yet shares a common belief in uncommon luxury, convenience of location, and world-class amenities provided by locally vetted innovators in food and beverage, technology, art, music, fashion and wellness. Led by the visionaries behind The Kor Group, the company currently manages Proper branded hotels in Santa Monica, Downtown L.A., San Francisco and Austin, The Shelborne by Proper in Miami, the Hotel June in West Los Angeles and Malibu; and The Collective, a curation of design-driven independent hotels including Avalon Hotels in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, the Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs, The Culver Hotel in Culver City, the Montauk Yacht Club in Montauk, NY. Look to see the brands expand into new markets such as Dallas, Miami, Palm Springs and more. Santa Monica Properhttps://www.properhotel.com/santa-monica/ Downtown L.A. Properhttps://www.properhotel.com/downtown-la/ Austin Properhttps://www.properhotel.com/austin/ San Francisco Properhttps://www.properhotel.com/san-francisco/ Hotel June West LAhttps://www.thehoteljune.com/west-los-angeles/ Hotel June Malibuhttps://www.thehoteljune.com/malibu/ Ingleside Estatehttps://inglesideestate.com/Avalon Palm Springshttps://www.avalon-hotel.com/palm-springs/ Avalon Beverly Hillshttps://www.avalon-hotel.com/beverly-hills/ The Culver Hotel https://www.culverhotel.com/ Montauk Yacht Clubhttps://montaukyachtclub.com/The Shelbornehttps://www.properhotel.com/shelborne/Proper Givinghttps://www.properhotel.com/proper-giving/

Founded in 2014
Santa Monica, California, USA
448 employees (27 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
155.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$31.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.3%
Direct
35.8%
Referral
9.5%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~448

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (4% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$333.4K
Last Raise
$333.4K
Series Unknown, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2024
    Series Unknown • $333.4K

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