Creative Director - Marine

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative vision for Le Boat, The Moorings and Sunsail, ensuring distinctive, consistent visual, verbal and experiential standards.
• Evolve each brand’s voice, personality and visual identity, bringing its purpose and promise to life through storytelling.
• Create memorable concepts and campaign platforms across markets and channels that communicate reasons to believe, capture attention and build lasting brand impact.
• Contribute to Travelopia’s creative community, sharing standards, innovation and best practice.
• Grow organic YouTube and Meta content through creator partnerships and effective production.
• Lead creative development from insight and briefs through concept to final execution, refining ideas to realise their full potential.
• Direct photography, video and content shoots worldwide – from canal cruising in France to sailing in the BVIs – ensuring high creative standards, consistent visual identity and a rich, strategically useful asset library.
• Own creative execution from concept through production and post-production, including treatments, scripts, storyboards, casting, art direction, editing, sound, design systems, typography, photography and motion graphics.
• Ensure work connects emotionally and meets brand-building and campaign objectives.
• Drive innovation through AI, automation and emerging technologies, improving creative tools and processes.

Requirements

• Substantial senior creative experience developing and directing original ideas, campaigns and brand concepts across digital and traditional channels, supported by a portfolio demonstrating personal ownership from initial creative concept through to final execution.
• Expertise in at least one creative discipline, with the breadth to direct and challenge specialists across disciplines, and the creative judgement to distinguish good work from great, strengthening ideas, craft and execution.
• Experience directing multi-market shoots, including hands-on filming, with the ability to establish clear frameworks and quality standards for partner content.
• Fluency in modern creative tools, production workflows and emerging technologies, including AI.
• An inspirational, emotionally intelligent leader who galvanises creative and non-creative teams, sets high creative standards, drives innovation and fosters continuous improvement.
• An exceptional communicator who articulates creative rationale, influences senior stakeholders and champions ideas while remaining open to constructive feedback. Resilient, open-minded, culturally aware and collaborative, with the ability to balance strategic creative thinking with hands-on direction and delivery.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Retirement savings plan with company contributions
• Generous leave plus your birthday off
• Flexible hybrid working schedules (2 days per week in our Surbiton office)
• Parental leave and family-supportive policies
• Charity or volunteering leave
• Group-wide travel discounts