Property Brand Art Director, Hotels, Resort Estates & Dining Rooms, Ubud

Before a guest ever steps onto the driveway, they have already decided how the place feels, based on a handful of carefully made images. Gaia Digital Agency wants the art director who designs that first impression for our hospitality clients, and who can repeat it across every channel with consistency.

We are a Ubud digital agency. Our teams ship social content, websites, paid advertising, search work, stills, moving image and AI-assisted production. The majority of brands we support are places people stay or dine: boutique hotels, resorts, villa collections, wellness retreats, cafes and restaurants, plus a few wellness and medical accounts.

The job is full-time and based in our Ubud studio on every working day. Visual taste for the client roster rests with you. You define the look of each brand, guide designers and the photography and film crews, and approve finished assets before any client review.

Across a normal month you could convert a sketchy brief into mood references, a production outline and a schedule that stays inside budget; direct on-site shoots in guest rooms, pool decks, spa spaces or open kitchens; return edits with notes that cut wasted rounds; document logo treatment, colour systems and typography so a property feels coherent from Instagram to its booking site to its ads; and walk clients through the rationale in English, then tighten the work after their comments. You will plan with social, media-buying and web colleagues so the pictures help fill beds and tables.

The person we hire has already led art direction or run a creative group with final authority on what ships, not only executed someone else's vision. Prior hospitality brand work is essential: show campaigns or identities you directed for a hotel, resort, villa or restaurant. We also look for instinct with light, framing and type, fluency with short vertical video, calm mentoring of less senior creatives, and English that holds up in presentations and critiques.

In exchange you shape imagery guests encounter before they travel, and you collaborate daily with SEO, advertising, social and development specialists who understand how hospitality brands earn bookings.

If this matches your craft, hit apply on this listing, share your portfolio link, call out the hospitality projects you personally led, and note in a sentence what idea drove each one. In the same application, tell us the monthly compensation you expect and the notice period, counted in days, still owed to your current employer.