WHAT YOU’LL DO

Nurture Healthy Relationships
As an Executive Project Director at Storyland Studios, you’ll be responsible for three crucial components of the studios overall health—nurturing healthy relationships, driving tangible results, and building healthy relationships. Yep, we said the relationship thing twice! We’re a relational organization that relies heavily on a healthy partnership between our Senior Leadership and Project Directors with the common goal of establishing long-term relationships with clients all while delivering exceptional work.

Steward the Story
Project Directors ensure that the story’s consistency and integrity are kept front and centre for everyone on the project. This is an exciting challenge as the expanse of our work is unique— combining 3 dimensions of storytelling—strategic, interactive, and spatial. Those dimensions cover everything from architecture to Intellectual Property management, from bluesky concept phase to boots on the ground construction, from engineering integrations to guest experience narratives.
No matter the project phase or complexity of scope, you’ll advocate for each team and every output to reflect the story.

Build Client Confidence
It’s often said that an Project Director is the “second smartest person in the room on every topic”. Great project directors have a strong project management base, a working knowledge of each discipline and understand how to lean on the specific expertise of the wider team. As the producer, you’re “in-charge” of the project and take ownership of the final outcome and solution. That means you’ll need to become familiar with the client’s industry, business, customers, and pain points. You need to know each phase of development and which disciplines are integral along the way. This “been there, done that” knowledge, enables you to field questions on the fly and respond in a way that produces confidence and reassurance.

Grow Forward
We’re hiring someone who will roll up their sleeves and add value on day one, but we also believe in the potential of every employee. We want you to grow, we want you to have a growth mindset, and we’ll look to support that growth with the opportunity to work with industry veterans on a wide scope of projects. Storyland Studios continues to shepherd the growth of our European and Middle Eastern client base, and we also have our eyes on further expansion into Southeast Asia. We want you to grow and we want you to help us as we do too.

THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THIS ROLE

With a wealth of experience in the place-based design and/or themed entertainment industry, you will be used to running immersive design and architectural projects of all shapes and sizes. Your portfolio and CV will demonstrate that you have successfully lived, worked and installed beyond the concept phase of major projects. You will be skilled at assembling and managing project teams, including freelance and sub-contractors. Ideally you’ll have an established network of resources in which you can call upon to potentially augment the internal Storyland project teams. Finally the right person for this role is someone who relishes the opportunity to work on international projects and familiar with the challenges of navigating design and construction projects in emerging markets, like the Middle East.

WHAT SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE

For day-to-day success, you will…

• Exhibit flexibility, kindness, and a willingness to learn. Yep, that’s the top of the list!
• Be comfortable in ambiguity and shaping “something” into something extraordinary without paint-by-number instructions.
• Serve as the day-to-day client contact and work to constantly build relational equity and trust with clients, and strategic vendors.
• Ensure the story, big idea and design intent is carried through all layers and phases of the design, build, install process.
• Direct, coordinate, and oversee the planning, administration, staffing, operations, and finances of one or more major projects (dependent on scope, scale and project phase).
• Assure that the goals or objectives of the project are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
• With project team support, monitor and assume responsibility for the overall quality, profitability and management of the project.
• Develop and implement strategic objectives for the project, and consistently seeking to mitigate risk.
• Ensure the team successfully develops, reviews, and manages scope, contract documents, cost estimates, scheduled, strategies and work plans to achieve the
  desired result.
• In collaboration and supported by the design documentation team, you will ensure every phase of design, production and installation is properly developed and contract scopes, close-out documents and Quality Standards align with the project intent.
• Act as the owner’s rep on architectural/development and themed entertainment projects, guiding clients through the design and build process.
• Act as the voice of the client to ensure Storyland teams understand the client’s priorities, vision and project intent at all times.
• Facilitate strategic and solutions-oriented conversations, bringing in the right studio experts or external partners to help collaborate when needed.
• Manage client and company expectations through regular meetings, checkpoints, and project workflow/process education.
• Set up a regular cadence for feedback with Senior Leadership, as appropriate, all along the project timeline.
• Support sales growth by constantly looking at the client’s needs and what comes next.
• Within reason, you’ll demonstrate an ability to work on multiple projects concurrently, with the confidence to multi-task and delegate as required.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE PARTY

Skills and Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in theme park design, development, planning and programming preferred. 5-7 years of themed experience, or exhibit, or attractions, or RD&E or architecture required.
• Demonstrate project leadership of a minimum of 3 large, complex projects delivered through opening day.
• You have a full grasp of each phase of a complex project and how each discipline integrates for a successful and profitable delivery from contract to opening day.
• Knowledge of design management and a possess a solid design aesthetic and strong grasp on project controls and financial tracking
• The ability to develop collaborative relationships across multiple-disciplines that lead to successful results, within the studio and externally – with clients, consultants, and other key participants in the concept, design and delivery process.
• Knowledge of theme park technologies including ride systems, A/V, robotics, engineering, & show systems.
• Knowledge of theme park related architecture, project management, organizational, and construction management practices
• You’re responsive in serving others and anticipate what’s next.
• You’re undaunted by ambiguity. You love shaping solutions to problems, you’re at home in the midst of change and embrace continual improvement.
• High degree of adaptability. You shift gears easily and thrive in a setting where you juggle multiple things at once.
• You have an EQ that matches or supersedes your IQ — we hire just as much, if not more, based on values than strictly intellect or ability. If you’re humble, hungry, and servant-hearted—you’ve found your people!
• You see feedback as a means to growth, rather than criticism.
• While this role will not have a concentrated focus on this market, you’ll be right at home working with or alongside those who do work with cause-based and Christian, faith-based clientele (for projects under our sister studio, PlainJoe).
• You have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• You’re willing to relocate for an advanced period of time should a project require it.
• You’re fluent in English – equally able to write or present.

Storyland Studios is an equal opportunity employer. We value and celebrate people and honor their individual stories. We believe differences broaden our perspective, strengthen our team and enable us to produce a better product. We do not discriminate based on age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Nurture Healthy Relationships
As an Executive Project Director at Storyland Studios, you’ll be responsible for three crucial components of the studio’s overall health—nurturing healthy relationships, driving tangible results, and building healthy relationships. Yep, we said the relationship thing twice! We’re a relational organization that relies heavily on a healthy partnership between our Senior Leadership and Project Directors to establish long-term relationships with clients while delivering exceptional work.

Activate the Story
You get brands and love translating them into stories that people can walk into. You intuitively sense what feels right for the intellectual properties you work with. As the Project Director for Activations at Storyland, you’ll ensure that each project under your care honors our client’s brand and extends the story into engaging events, memorable moments, and innovative experiences.

Orchestrate the Production
Great project directors are born leaders with intuitive problem solving muscles. You’re ability to align stakeholders and coordinate the team’s effort displays a strategic mind and a strong project management base. As the project director of activations, you’re the producer “in-charge”. That means you’ll need to become familiar with the client’s industry, business, customers, and pain points. You need to know each phase of development and which disciplines are integral along the way. This “been there, done that” knowledge, enables you to field questions on the fly, coordinate each moving part and ensures the show will go on.

Grow Forward
We’re hiring someone who will roll up their sleeves and add value on day one, but we also believe in the potential of every employee. We want you to grow, we want you to have a growth mindset, and we’ll look to support that growth with the opportunity to work with industry veterans on a wide scope of projects. We see this role as key to helping us expand of our service offerings as we seek to deliver an increasingly holistic approach to storytelling that lifts the Spirit.

THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THIS ROLE

With a wealth of experience in brand activations and innovative pop-up experiences, you will be familiar with running immersive design and production-based projects of all shapes and sizes. Your portfolio and CV will demonstrate that you have successfully lived, worked and installed beyond the concept phase. You will be skilled at assembling and managing project teams, including freelancers and sub-contractors. Ideally you’ll have an established network of resources in which you can call upon to potentially augment the internal Storyland project team. Finally the right person for this role is someone who relishes the opportunity to work on international projects and familiar with the challenges of navigating design, construction and experience projects in emerging markets, like the Middle East.

WHAT SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE

For day-to-day success, you will…

• Exhibit flexibility, kindness, and a willingness to learn. Yep, that’s the top of the list!
• Be comfortable in ambiguity and shaping “something” into something extraordinary without paint-by-number instructions.
• Know how to put on a show, and you live by the motto “The Show Must Go On!”—tackling every challenge with a can-do, level-headed attitude.
• Serve as the day-to-day client contact and work to constantly build relational equity and trust with clients, and strategic vendors.
• Be equally comfortable in a boardroom or a fabrication shop floor
• Know what it takes to make an event go off without a hitch, from early concept ideation through project close-out.
• Successfully navigate multiple stakeholder priorities, from IP holders to sponsorship/funding partners to the boots-on-the-ground brand ambassador teams.
• Ensure project priorities are established and clearly understood by everyone on the team.
• Drive to consensus quickly and always mindful of the project’s schedule.
• Understand how to scale and be creative when presented with budgetary challenges. As the first line of defense for scope creep, you know the contract inside and out and are well-equipped to discuss ways to overcome shifting project needs through skilled negotiation.
• Simultaneously protect the guest experience and the bottom line, walking the tightrope of production with experienced steps.
• Understand the nuances of production for temporary activations versus longer-term, larger-scale permanent projects, identifying & prioritizing critical path activities to achieve success.
• Act as the voice of the client to ensure Storyland teams understand the client’s priorities, vision and project intent at all times.
• Have your main, dependable project team on speed dial. You’ve been in the trenches with your team of pros and you can quickly “assemble your Avengers” when called upon.
• Should be well connected with vendors, ideally with experience or active presence in the Middle East, from the following disciplines:
  • Fabricators
  • Installers
  • Media Production
  • App Development
  • Audio & Video
  • Lighting
  • Special Effects
  • Brand Ambassadors
• Set up a regular cadence for feedback with Senior Leadership, as appropriate, all along the project timeline.
• Support sales growth by constantly looking at the client’s needs and what comes next.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE PARTY

Skills and Qualifications

• 10 years+ in producing/project managing pop-ups, branded events, temporary brand activations, and experiential marketing tours or campaigns.
• You are dialed in on emerging tech and have experience with mixed reality (AR/VR).
• Experience producing projects in the Middle East with an extra plus for experience producing projects in Saudi Arabia.
• Demonstrate project leadership of a minimum of 3 large activations delivered through opening day.
• Knowledge and passion for Gaming and EGaming a huge plus.
• You have a full grasp of each phase of a complex project and how each discipline integrates for a successful and profitable delivery from contract to opening curtain.
• Knowledge of design management and a strong grasp on project controls and financial tracking
• The ability to develop collaborative relationships across multiple-disciplines that lead to successful results, within the studio and externally – with clients, consultants, and other key participants in the concept, design and delivery process.
• You’re responsive in serving others and anticipate what’s next.
• You’re undaunted by ambiguity. You love shaping solutions to problems, you’re at home in the midst of change and embrace continual improvement.
• High degree of adaptability. You shift gears easily and thrive in a setting where you juggle multiple things at once.
• You have an EQ that matches or supersedes your IQ — we hire just as much, if not more, based on values than strictly intellect or ability. If you’re humble, hungry, and servant-hearted—you’ve found your people!
• You see feedback as a means to growth, rather than criticism.
• While this role will not have a concentrated focus on this market, you’ll be right at home working with or alongside those who do work with cause-based and Christian, faith-based clientele (for projects under our sister studio, PlainJoe).
• You have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• You’re willing to relocate for an advanced period of time should a project require it
• You’re fluent in English-equally able to write or present.

Storyland Studios is an equal opportunity employer. We value and celebrate people and honor their individual stories. We believe differences broaden our perspective, strengthen our team and enable us to produce a better product. We do not discriminate based on age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Administer and Guide
As the Architectural Job Captain, you’ll lead design projects, ensuring adherence to building codes and specifications. Under the Project Manager and Architect’s direction, you’ll manage technical designs and documents using software like Revit, Bluebeam, Revu, and AutoCAD; driving projects from concept to construction with a focus on compliance and design integrity.

Coordinate and Communicate
In this role, you’ll be the key liaison between project teams, clients, and consultants, discerning project requirements and guiding designs to meet client approval. You’ll collaborate with Architectural Project Managers, and other members of the team to help manage the project’s documentation requirements, timeline, and you’ll streamline communication while ensuring project milestones are achieved efficiently.

Ensure Excellence, Integration, and Compliance
Your dedication to quality will see you verifying documentation accuracy, and ensuring project compliance, implementing Project Manager QA / QC reviews. You’ll deliver contract documents, and guarantee that architectural designs are perfectly integrated with all project aspects, leading to exemplary finished projects.

Grow Forward
We’re hiring someone who will roll up their sleeves and add value on day one, but we also believe in the potential of every employee. We want you to grow, we want you to have a growth mindset, and we’ll look to support that growth with the opportunity to work with industry veterans on a wide scope of projects. We see this role as key to helping us expand of our service offerings as we seek to deliver an increasingly holistic approach to storytelling that lifts the Spirit.

WHAT SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE

You are accountable for ensuring smooth project navigation from concept to completion.

• Exhibit flexibility, kindness, and a willingness to learn. Yep, that’s the top of the list!
• You’re the go-to person who administrates our architectural projects, and ensures the project follows building codes.
• You’ll interact and consult with our clients to discern a project’s specifications and you’ll help guide the interpretation and direction of designs.
• You’ll prepare and submit drawings and renderings for approval and cross-collaborate with the team and make needed corrections.
• You’ll be able to use construction modeling software like AutoCAD, Revit, and others to create schematics.
• You’ll demonstrate an ability to work on multiple projects concurrently, with the confidence to multi-task and delegate as required.
• You’ll visit architectural work sites and take measurements of structures and spaces if necessary.
• You’ll review drawings for accuracy and ensure construction documents reflect as-built conditions.
• You’ll work to ensure the architectural team’s alignment with the studio’s strategic priorities.
• You’ll contribute to a positive work culture and uphold our core values.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE PARTY

Skills and Qualifications

• You have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in architectural design, building codes, and construction documentation.
• Throughout your career, you have consistently demonstrated a keen eye for detail, coupled with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Your expertise shines through as a rock star in Revit, Bluebeam, Revu and AutoCAD
• Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, ensuring effective and clear conveyance of ideas and information.
• Highlight strong interpersonal skills, emphasizing your commitment to fostering positive relationships within the team, thereby contributing to a collaborative and productive work environment.
• You’ve got some experience working with projects involving churches, non-profit, or faith based organizations.
• You’re able to work in our main office in Corona, California two days out of the week (Thursdays, and Fridays).
• You like forests, but you love trees! You have the uncanny ability to see the big picture but the detail orientation not to miss the small things that make or break a package.
• You possess Jedi-level knowledge of CAD-based systems (Autodesk Architecture 2019 preferred), Revit, and Microsoft Windows-based applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• If you have 3-D modeling experience, that would be amazing, but not required.
• You have proficient knowledge of many federal, state, and local building codes and how to navigate regulations.
• Your prioritization skills are breathtaking!
• While you can carry a lot on your own, you enjoy having a pack and work well on team.
• You have the ability to provide advice and recommendations in an informed and confident manner.
• You build teams. It’s one of the things you’re most proud of.
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills. You love closing the loop and ensuring project leaders have pertinent information to manage client expectations. Bonus points for a sense of humor!
• You have an EQ that matches or supersedes your IQ — we hire just as much, if not more, based on values than strictly intellect or ability. If you’re humble, hungry, and servant- hearted—you’ve found your people!
• You see feedback as a means to growth rather than criticism.
• You love this whole themed entertainment industry thing!
• You’ll be highly comfortable and enthusiastic working on our cause and Christian faith- based projects which we do through our PlainJoe brand.
• You’re fluent in English—equally able to write or present.

Storyland Studios is an equal opportunity employer. We value and celebrate people and honor their individual stories. We believe differences broaden our perspective, strengthen our team and enable us to produce a better product. We do not discriminate based on age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.

We are seeking an Interior Designer to join our diverse and growing team. In this role, you will play an integral part in conceptualizing, designing, and implementing extraordinary interior spaces that deliver immersive experiences that Lift the Spirit. You will work closely with our talented team of designers, architects, and engineers on projects that range from mixed-use, to corporate offices, houses of faith, themed entertainment projects, hotels, museum’s, restaurants and retail spaces.

Primary Responsibilities

Vast Project Reach, with a Focus: Over the course of your time with us, you will have the opportunity to work on the design of interior spaces for multiple project types, including themed entertainment projects, however much of the focus of this position is related to more traditional architectural spaces for hospitality and mixed-use projects.

Design Documentation: Provide design documentation in various forms such as graphic illustration, imagery boards, color renderings, research, and technical documentation for assigned projects, including specifications of all materials and furnishings through each phase of design and production.

Technical Tasks: Perform various technical tasks including color & material design, REVIT support, and furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FF&E) design and specifications.

Creative Conceptualization: Consistently bring innovative and appropriate ideas, designing elements that fit the space for maximum impact.

Space Planning: Provide expert support for space planning and broad spatial organizational concepts, specifying materials, systems, equipment, and furniture.

Client Interaction and Presentation: Support and deliver client presentations in conjunction with Producers and other Creative Leaders.

Trend Analysis: Regularly follow trends in Hospitality, Architecture, Themed-Attractions and Interior Design.

Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate across teams and departments with ease.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Architecture, or related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience in interior design, with a focus on mixed-use, churches, hospitality, and/or retail environments.
• Proficiency in design software such as Revit, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, etc. Exceptional creative and technical design skills.
• Strong understanding of construction methodologies, materials, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, and to communicate effectively with clients and stakeholders.
• A portfolio that demonstrates a range of creative and technical work.

Preferred:

• NCIDQ, LEED, or other related industry certifications.
• An understanding of the church related architecture and programming.
• Some experience with immersive and interactive design elements and thematic showset design.

Storyland Studios is an equal opportunity employer. We value and celebrate people and honor their individual stories. We believe differences broaden our perspective, strengthen our team and enable us to produce a better product. We do not discriminate based on age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.