Director of Event Hospitality

Say hello to HagertyHagerty is a company built by drivers for drivers. We put our members at the center of everything we do, and we are dedicated to making it easier and more enjoyable for enthusiasts to drive and celebrate the machines they love. We’re proud to be the world’s largest insurer of collectible and enthusiast vehicles and are home to the Hagerty Drivers Club, the world’s largest car club. Our Marketplace business presents live and digital sales across the U.S. and Europe, we host a number of driving events and concours, and our award-winning automotive journalists produce the most popular car magazine globally, alongside internationally awarded videos. We’re committed to Never Stop Driving. Ready to get in the driver’s seat? Join us! The Amelia Concours. Greenwich Concours. Motorlux. California Mille are not ordinary events. They are experiences that live in the memory long after the last car leaves the field. The hospitality we deliver is a significant part of why. From private collector cabanas and intimate curator dinners to large-scale luxury guest programs where every detail is felt before it is seen, Hagerty hospitality operates at a standard that very few organizations can match.As the Director of Hospitality, you’ll hold that standard personally with your creative vision, technical mastery, and storytelling instinct to keep pushing it further. This is not a role for someone who executes from a template or waits to be told what the experience should feel like. We want someone who walks into every venue and immediately starts building the world it could become. If that is how your mind works, we want to talk.What you’ll doHospitality Vision, World Building & Brand StorytellingCo-create the hospitality vision with the VP of Events & Experiences, bringing your own creative perspective and building collaboratively toward experiences that are bolder and more distinctive than either of you would produce alone.Build worlds, not just spaces. Every environment you create should tell the Hagerty brand story with a narrative arc that is intentional, immersive, and unmistakably ours.Bring a sophisticated design eye and a storyteller's instinct to every space, including furniture, fabric, custom fabrication, floral, lighting, and spatial flow.Direct culinary vision for each event, working closely with catering partners on menu development, tastings, presentation standards, and service style that reflect both the luxury positioning and the personality of each event.Develop and curate gifting programs that feel personal and considered, chosen specifically for the Hagerty guest rather than pulled from a catalog.Know where to source high-end custom fabrication, specialty rental, and unique vendors no one else is using, and bring those discoveries to the portfolio before they become trends.Stay deeply connected to what is happening at the highest levels of luxury experiential globally and translate those ideas into the Hagerty c...