Hospitality Videographer & Content Creator at Haute Dolci

Hospitality Videographer & Content Creator

Location:

Leicester

Salary: £26,000–£31,000 per annum, depending on experience

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Experience:

Minimum 3 years' relevant professional experience

Hospitality experience:
Essential and must be verifiable

Travel:
Regular travel to our venues, including Bristol and Watford

You will take ownership of the quality of our visual capture. You will:

• Plan and execute professional food, beverage, lifestyle and venue shoots.
• Produce premium short-form video for Instagram Reels, Tik Tok, You Tube Shorts, paid social and digital campaigns.
• Capture food in a way that makes it look genuinely irresistible.
• Film restaurant atmosphere, customer experiences, events and key trading occasions.
• Direct staff, models, influencers and talent confidently during shoots.
• Understand composition, camera movement, lighting, exposure, lenses, frame rates and audio.
• Create cinematic hero shots alongside fast-moving organic social content.
• Capture both planned campaign material and spontaneous/real-time content.
• Photograph products, venues and events where required.
• Build an organised, high-quality library of reusable footage for each brand.
• Work from creative briefs but also identify content opportunities independently.

You will also be capable of taking footage through post-production when required, including:

• Short-form social editing
• Colour correction and grading
• Sound design and audio clean-up
• Captions and subtitles
• Transitions and motion
• Music selection
• Platform-specific formatting
• Basic motion graphics
• Rapid turnaround edits for trending content

This is one of the most important requirements of the role. We are specifically looking for someone who has previously created professional content for: restaurants, cafés, dessert brands, food & beverage businesses, hotels, events venues or closely related hospitality businesses. You must be able to demonstrate this through a verifiable commercial portfolio, previous employer/client work or live social media accounts. A strong general videography portfolio without meaningful hospitality/food experience will not by itself meet the requirement.

• Why the first 1–2 seconds of a Reel matter
• Hooks and visual hooks
• Watch-time and retention
• Food-content trends
• Tik Tok and Instagram-native filming styles
• How organic content differs from polished advertising
• When imperfect/fast content will perform better than overly produced content
• How to shoot enough variations during one session to create weeks of usable content

The role is based in Leicester, with regular on-location shooting across our portfolio. You should expect to visit each location typically once or twice each month depending on the content calendar, with more frequent work across the Leicester venues. Travel will include Watford and Bristol, and reasonable authorised business travel expenses will be covered. Because hospitality does not operate only between 9am and 5pm, occasional evening or weekend shoots will be necessary for launches, events and peak trading periods.

These will normally be planned in advance.

• Minimum 3 years' professional videography/content-production experience
• Verifiable hospitality/food & beverage content experience — essential
• An outstanding video portfolio/showreel
• Strong professional camera skills
• Excellent understanding of lighting
• Strong food and product composition
• Good post-production/editing ability
• Experience creating content specifically for Tik Tok and Instagram
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work quickly without sacrificing quality
• Strong…