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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.
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.
Reports To: Digital Manager - (Remote or In office Position)
Developing Story
As a React Developer, you have an ability to efficiently translate design into elegant code and dynamic features that enable our designers and developers to create digital products and web applications that amplify our client’s story.
Efficient Solutions
You will work with a full team of developers, producers, project managers and designers to develop new sites, deploy additional components for existing products and improve the overall performance of client web properties and our own inhouse product platforms. This requires strong communication skills and an ability to collaborate to move the project forward.
React Depth
While you will experience a wide range of opportunities in your work with us, this position is specifically geared toward someone with solid experience and focus. We’re looking for someone who has immersed themselves in React and comfortable with its principles.
Manage Requirements
You will need an ability to understand and balance business requirements, project goals and user needs in order to translate those factors into technical requirements and improvements for each project.
Grow Forward
We want you to grow. We’ll expect and support it. We’re hiring for someone who will roll up their sleeves and add value on day one, but we’re also hiring for potential and will support you in your development.
For day-to-day success, you will…
For success in your first six months, you will…
Skills and Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
PlainJoe is a Storyland Studio focused on serving Charitable causes and the Christian Church. 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 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 employees:
Retire Well
Stay Healthy
Enjoy Life
Reports To:
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