Remote Position - Reports To: Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Business Development
Amplify What We Do
As the Director of Client Development, you’ll help paint and sell the awe-inspiring picture of what an immersive experience and connected story can do for our potential clients and their brand. Boasting our multi-dimensional design capabilities, you’ll strive and work hard to secure a “piece of the pie” and major design contracts with investors, real estate developers and major IP holders all seeking to introduce or re-vamp place-based, visitor attractions of all sizes and focus in the United States.
Nurture Relationships
Potential clients and partners are just friends we haven’t met yet. Your job is to help them meet us and take the next step toward hiring us, referring us or partnering with us. You’ll use your experience in sales or partner development to build and nurture a growing network of connections. Using your sixth-sense, you’ll intuitively and strategically know which opportunities are right to pursue all while keeping serious leads within our orbit relationally.
Build Sales Solutions
We’ve had some pretty fantastic success through word of mouth in the US. We have a long history of building our business that way. Now, we’re putting additional wind in the sails by building out our marketing function and hiring a specific sales-based position like this for the US market. That means, you’ll have the opportunity to build on what we’ve done and shape the future for how we develop our pipeline in the United States—something that will take collaboration, negotiation, and prioritization superpowers.
Close While Solving & Serving
Make no mistake, this is a position to close new business. We have amazing capabilities at Storyland and want more and more people to know about it. However, we’re not a “sales” organization selling widgets, we’re an experience design firm selling connected stories that lift the Spirit. We have always sold our services while solving the problems of our clients, not just pressuring for a signature. We don’t just want a sale, we want to serve. We’re after building a great relationship, one that will lead to repeat business. So we’re always seeking ways we can add value or create opportunities—allowing that service to help us close the next project.
Great question, we’re glad you asked!
First off, you’re a great person! Emotional intelligence (check!). You’re the friend that everyone wants at the dinner party because you’ll make the party better. So much so, that when the host of the party hears you can’t make, they’d rather cancel the party than throw it without you.
You’re not a court jester or merely a smooth talker. You’re wicked smart, you know how to network in the old-school ways and you’re a jedi master at creating value and joining conversations on things like LinkedIn. You have either a direct love of theme-parks and experiences or a history in helping to build those experiences and place-based destinations. You’re not shy about creating clarity on a scope, schedule and budget, nor do you hate talking about money! You’re great at closing a deal and asking for terms that work well, easy-peasy.
You can travel, quite a bit and you don’t mind that at all. So that means you probably live in proximity to a major airport. This is not a desktop warrior job, we’re a relational company and while there will be plenty of time spent researching, planning, networking on LinkedIn and connecting via Zoom, there is nothing quite like going to dinner with people and breaking bread to build relationships and secure projects.
You’re also super curious and entrepreneurial. You don’t need someone to hold your hand or give you leads to chase, your bringing ideas to the party. When you are presented two options, you’re the kind of person who sees the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth option others didn’t know existed.
You probably have a direct sales background. You could be someone from the world of construction or land development. You might be someone who has done business development for similar experience design firms, or you might be from the corporate world and managed the licensing for world class brands and IPs. Whichever background you’re from, you know how to pitch investors and speak “C-Suite”.
Is it you?
For day-to-day success, you will…
Skills and Qualifications
Storyland Studios is an experience design and production management firm with offices in the US and Europe. We imagine, design and create immersive experiences and environments that lift the Spirit.
From our shared background at Walt Disney Imagineering, we learned the art, craft and science of experience design—of telling stories in space. Our team of over 100 veteran Imagineers, strategists, marketers, artists, animators, designers, and developers craft connected stories and create truly immersive experiences.
We’re a fun-loving family that loves what we do and leads with our heart. We serve the themed-entertainment and attraction market through the Storyland Studios brand and Christian-based cause organizations through our sister brand, PlainJoe.
We care about the life and development of our people and want to come alongside you to care for you in your pursuits.
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.
Amersham, UK (In Office) - Reports To: CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER / HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL
We are looking for someone passionate about the themed entertainment industry. Someone who is willing to grow, who loves collaborating, and is eager to jump into ambiguity with goal of championing clarity.
This is an in-office experience in Amersham, UK … like no other. The role will see the right person working across several types of themed entertainment projects across the globe – from Family Entertainment Centers to Theme Parks.
You will collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Producers, Project Managers, Executives and Designers of all disciplines in the UK and the United States. We will ask for your support throughout many exciting areas of the business such as:
You will also collaborate closely with our business development and marketing teams. This could involve developing a social post one day and creating a sales presentation the next.
In addition, you could also be organizing (and in some cases attending) leading industry events, managing set-ups, creating collateral, coordinating booth designs, and representing Storyland Studios as an ambassador for our business.
General Responsibilities
Graphic and Production Design Responsibilities
Marketing Support Responsibilities
Storyland Studios is an experience design and production management firm with offices in the US and Europe. We imagine, design and create immersive experiences and environments that lift the Spirit.
From our shared background at Walt Disney Imagineering, we learned the art, craft and science of experience design—of telling stories in space. Our team of over 100 veteran Imagineers, strategists, marketers, artists, animators, designers, and developers craft connected stories and create truly immersive experiences.
We’re a fun-loving family that loves what we do and leads with our heart. We serve the themed-entertainment and attraction market through the Storyland Studios brand and Christian-based cause organizations through our sister brand, PlainJoe.
We care about the life and development of our people and want to come alongside you to care for you in your pursuits.
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.
Reports To: CFO
The Controller role is critical to the strategic health of our portfolio of businesses. Everything you‘ll do—including, but not limited to, maintaining the accuracy and productivity of day to day activities of accounts payable, customer credits and collections, fixed asset records, general & legal entity accounting, taxes, variances, and working with outside CPAs—all support greater clarity on our financial position and health. Whew, that was a long sentence.
We’re looking for a strategically minded, and technically proficient Controller who is able to manage multiple companies—aka, this ain’t your first rodeo and you probably don’t prefer to drive in the slow lane. Storyland has a number of entities within its portfolio and you’ll be exploring solutions, making improvements and optimizing processes across all of those entities.
Relationships are a big deal to us. We treat our clients like close friends and our co-workers like family, family that we like, that is. Our core values reflect and support this approach and everyone in the organization is expected to live into those values and nurture relationships as we collaborate and work with one another.
You’ll have the opportunity to build on what we’ve done and shape the future of our accounting processes. Within that, we’ll expect and support your growth. We’re hiring for
someone who will roll up their sleeves and add value on day one, but we also believe in the potential of every employee. Our organization is in an exciting time of growth, and this position is a big priority. Help us grow, and grow with us.
For day-to-day success, you will…
For success in your first six months, you will…
Storyland Studios is a design and production firm with offices in the US and Europe. We imagine, design and create immersive experiences and environments that lift the Spirit.
From our shared background at Walt Disney Imagineering, we learned the art, craft and science of experience design—of telling stories in space. Our team of over 100 veteran Imagineers, strategists, marketers, artists, animators, designers, and developers craft connected stories and create truly immersive experiences.
We’re a fun-loving family that loves what we do and leads with our heart. We serve the themedentertainment and attraction market through the Storyland Studios brand and Christian-based charitable organizations through PlainJoe.
We care about the life and development of our people and want to come alongside you to care for you in your pursuits. We offer full-time Storylanders:
Retire Well
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.
Corona, CA (In Office) - Reports To: Chief Creative Officer
As an extension of the Chief Creative Officer, you will provide multi-faceted and strategic administrative support to ensure effective use of his time and scheduled interactions. You will be on point to manage his schedule, meeting preparation, follow-up tasks, and complex travel arrangements. Your goal is to help him maximize his influence and availability with clients, the team, and as an industry influencer.
The ideal executive coordinator will have the emotional intelligence, client management experience, and communication skills to respond directly and effectively to clients, industry leaders, and strategic partners. When the Chief Creative Officer is unavailable or requires protected time, you will ensure forward momentum on communications by exercising exceptional judgment and understanding what is needed and necessary.
The sum of what you will do moves well beyond “assistance”. This role comes with operational responsibilities and a need for a solutions-oriented posture. From time to time, you will take on special projects that could fall into any number of functional areas–from systems improvements to business development support to industry engagement to team building or event planning. You’re a can-do kind of person, and this is a can-do kind of role!
With a busy schedule and a growing team, the Chief Creative Officer is not always available to answer team questions or to jump into the details of day-to-day individual management-related activities. The Executive Coordinator will support the other creative and operational managers in helping connect the dots, source answers to questions, and help the team with any logistic requests and needs. You close the loop and make sure “it” was handled, whatever “it” was.
For day-to-day success, you will be responsible for …
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Storyland Studios is a design and production firm with offices in the US and Europe. We imagine, design and create immersive experiences and environments that lift the Spirit.
From our shared background at the Walt Disney Company, we learned the art, craft and science of experience design—of telling stories in space. Our team of over 100 veteran Imagineers, strategists, marketers, artists, animators, designers, and developers craft connected stories and create truly immersive experiences.
We’re a fun-loving family that loves what we do and leads with our heart. We serve the themed-entertainment and attraction market through the Storyland Studios brand and Christian-based charitable organizations through our sister studio, PlainJoe.
We care about the life and development of our people and want to come alongside you to care for you in your pursuits and offer a range of benefits.
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.
Remote Position (or Hybrid) - Reports To: Chief Strategy Officer (Amersham, UK)
At Storyland, we create experiences and destinations that lift the Spirit. But it’s not all design magic or pie-in-the-sky creative. We seek to develop projects that are also highly marketable and destined for profitability. The director of strategy is vital in helping our clients to determine project feasibility and analyze opportunities. You ensure that investors, developers, and stakeholders have well-laid, guest-centric, data-driven foundations before creative teams start to design the story from BlueSky to reality.
The director of strategy loves questions. You see them as a fundamental tool for insight archeology—each question dusts off another layer, uncovering artifacts of storytelling gold. You bring a systematic approach to research, from desktop data and analytics to in-field observation and guest experience. You don’t just ask questions. You know how to distill and clarify insights from all the information you gather to make your recommendations human- centered and business-savvy.
This role requires you to have your fingers on the pulse of what’s happening and what’s next. This grasp of what’s current enables you to discover, select, pair up and extend various IP candidates with experiences that fit their brands, expand their market share and add significant value to destinations, resorts, and experiences of all kinds. This role is not only responsible for helping to identify those partnerships. This role is key in helping to support negotiations where needed and cast vision around brand extension opportunities for clients and IP holders alike.
The Director of Strategy is a master consultant, presenter, and influencer. You are the bridge between the left and the right brain of the creative Themed Entertainment and Destination business. You’re just as comfortable speaking about concepts, BlueSky, and schematics with the creatives as you are speaking about CAPEX, ROI and ROX in the boardroom. You know how to translate the right brain into words that CFO’s and investors need to hear. You understand the concerns of what drives the business forward and can present solutions and findings in such a way as to speak the right words to the right room at the right time.
You will be accountable for our strategic storytelling and research
Storyland Studios is an experience design and production management firm with offices in the US and Europe. We imagine, design and create immersive experiences and environments that lift the Spirit.
From our shared background at Walt Disney Imagineering, we learned the art, craft and science of experience design—of telling stories in space. Our team of over 100 veteran Imagineers, strategists, marketers, artists, animators, designers, and developers craft connected stories and create truly immersive experiences.
We’re a fun-loving family that loves what we do and leads with our heart. We serve the themed- entertainment and attraction market through the Storyland Studios brand and Christian-based cause organizations through our sister brand, PlainJoe.
We care about the life and development of our people and want to come alongside you to care for you in your pursuits.
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.
Amersham, UK (In Office) - Reports To: Chief Strategy Officer
As the Marketing Coordinator, you help to reimagine the creation of content to serve Storyland’s marketing and sales funnel by communicating our point-of-view in thought-provoking, informative, and demand-generating ways across multiple digital media channels. You’ll attract eyes, intrigue minds and capture hearts through curated content both future clients, potential employees, strategic partners and industry influencers.
You engage in a test-and-learn approach to marketing collateral. Overseeing the measurement of social engagement and email analytics to inform best practices — then strategically adapting and repurposing content for the best performance by media channel to accelerate our sales and marketing funnel. You move people from aware of our work to advocates through.
You project manage and collaborate across teams — namely, Marketing, Sales (Business Development), Project Management, and Design — to implement and execute an effective marketing strategy that meets Storyland’s business goals. You’ll help business development and thought leadership efforts that actively position Storyland in key networking opportunities at live events, vlogs, and out of the box projects.
As the Marketing Coordinator, you will also help the business development team land new work through the streamlined creation of proposals. You will employ your communication skills, coordination abilities and eye for design in an effort to put Storyland and sister studio PlainJoe in the best position to land project work.
For day-to-day success, you will be responsible for …
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following…
Storyland Studios is a design and production firm with offices in the US and Europe.
We imagine, design and create immersive experiences and environments that lift the Spirit.
From our shared background at Walt Disney Imagineering, we learned the art, craft and
science of experience design—of telling stories in space. Our team of over 100 veteran
Imagineers, strategists, marketers, artists, animators, designers, and developers craft
connected stories and create truly immersive experiences.
We’re a fun-loving family that loves what we do and leads with our heart. We serve the
themed-entertainment and attraction market through the Storyland Studios brand and
Christian-based charitable organizations through our sister studio, PlainJoe.
We care about the life and development of our people and want to come alongside you
to care for you in your pursuits.
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.