What You’ll Do

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.

WHO’S RIGHT FOR THIS ROLE?

Great question, we’re glad you asked!

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!
  • Land work. Probably obvious, but worth saying.
  • Monitor industry trends and collect market intelligence on clients and competitors.
  • Track competitor activity by monitoring websites, collateral presentations, trade journals and online chatter.
  • In collaboration with the Chief Strategy Officer, support the development of the studio’s strategic plan including SWOT goals and action plans, market segmentation analysis, top clients, and revenue projections.
  • Facilitate strategic partner collaborations including pre-contract sessions and potential alliances with partners like contractors, developers, IP holders, investors, companies or key consultants.
  • Create and implement a key capture list to determine most viable and valuable clients to pursue.
  • Establish relationships with partners including investment firms, IP holders, hospitality and retail land developers, themed entertainment, FEC and museum operators.
  • Collaborate to identify project opportunities, strengthen current business ties and come up with strategies to expand Storyland’s market reach in the United States.
  • Help to create and maintain a clear approach to tracking and nurturing leads.
  • Actively engage and collaborate on proposal strategy, sometimes writing key proposal sections
  • Build and implement a strategy for conference engagement and networking at client and industry events.
  • Use social media as a tool to increase connections, raise visibility, create value and build engagement with the Storyland brand.
  • Assist and collaborate on marketing for the US Market.
  • Brief and support project teams as requested by producers and/or executives.
  • Deliver sales presentations to key customers in coordination with additional Storylanders.
  • Assist operations with optimizing the approach to serving pre-contract collaborations in service of securing work.
  • Be comfortable in ambiguity and shaping “something” into something extraordinary without paint-by-number instructions.
  • Happy to work in the USA, where this role is based.
  • Write and communicate well. Ya, good grammar isn’t optional.
  • Display continual curiosity.

What You’ll Bring To The Party

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or related field (preferred).
• Minimum of 7 years of related experience required
• Knowledge of AEC/Real Estate/Land Development/Investment markets.
• Skilled at developing and delivering presentations.
• Ability to prioritize effectively.
• While you can carry a lot on your own, you enjoy having a pack and work well on team.
• Discretion and confidentiality are your friends.
• You have the ability to think entrepreneurially, creatively and strategically.
• You, follow through on your follow through.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• You have the ability to provide advice and recommendations in an informed and confident manner.
• Outstanding organizational skills; persistent, tactful and enthusiastic.
• Communicates with co-workers, management, clients and others with a responsive, service-oriented mindset; self-starter, resourceful, detail oriented.
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills. 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 have a growing interest in the themed entertainment and attraction industry (for Storyland Studios clients).
• You’ll be comfortable working around cause and Christian faith-based clientele which we do through our sister studio, PlainJoe (though this is not the focus of this position).
• You’re fluent in English—equally able to write or present.

About Us

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.

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.

What You’ll Do

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:

• Our design process, where you could be offering conceptual or technical design
• Working shoulder-to-shoulder with an Executive Producer, helping to shape a client presentation on the next phase of mega-project
• And of course, researching the latest and greatest trends in the industry that our teams can use to inform how we approach a project.

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

General Responsibilities

• Research and Benchmarking.
• Quality Assurance and Proofreading on key presentations.
• Detail orientation for PowerPoint Presentation formatting

Graphic and Production Design Responsibilities

• Visual moodboard creation.
• Pulling reference imagery.
• Extensive use of Adobe Creative Suite.
• General knowledge of 3D software, e.g. Sketchup.

Marketing Support Responsibilities

• Pitch deck creation.
• Design support for social media content.
• Support in maintaining the social media and event calendars.
• Support at key events (potential travel required, reimbursed).

About Us

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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Create Clarity

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.

Push Solutions

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.

Nurture Relationships

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.

Grow Forward

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.

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.
• Perform your daily accounting job functions with consistency and follow-through.
• Get to know and support the accounting team.
• Ensure the books close on-time, every-time.
• Use your agility and curious mind to respond to new challenges in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

For success in your first six months, you will…

• Take initiative in getting to know the folks you work with outside of the accounting team (welcome to a Zoom world).
• Be able to close books monthly for each company successfully and have accrual financial statements with analysis prepared
• The CFO and others on your team have a growing confidence that your work is reliable and done the way we need it to be.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE PARTY

Skills and Qualifications

• You like forests, but you love trees (detail-orientation is a must).
• You love people and numbers. That doesn’t mean you’re an extrovert or the life of the party, but it does mean that you’re a team player, you’re humble, hungry, and   servant-hearted.
• You have active work experience that showcases the skillset required to do the work.
• You think accrual accounting and revenue recognition sounds fun.
• You have multiple years of accounting experience under your belt, including chart of accounts creation and maintenance; trend, variance and account analysis; reconciliations with backup schedules; foreign exchange; journal entries; general ledger management; monthly close; consolidations; and financial statement preparation.
• You have experience in working with multiple entities at the same time. We have quite a few.
• Your Excel skills are strong with the force.
• You see feedback as a means to growth, rather than criticism.
• You’re a quick student—especially of new software.
• You have a growing interest in the themed entertainment and attraction industry (for Storyland Studios clients).
• You’ll be comfortable working with cause-based and Christian, faith-based clientele (for PlainJoe clients).
• You have a Bachelor’s degree
• You’re fluent in English—equally able to write or present.

Preferred Skillset

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, specifically.
• You have experience with QuickBooks or QuickBooks Online.
• You have experience converting from QuickBooks to a more robust system such as NetSuite.
• You are a CPA with public accounting experience.
• You have proven knowledge of financial forecasting and advanced computer skills in MS Office

ABOUT US

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

• 401k: 100% match up to 4% of compensation. Eligible after 6 months of employment

Stay Healthy

• Health: Storyland covers 100% of employee insurance premium
• Dental: Storyland covers 100% of employee insurance premium
• Vision: Storyland covers 100% of employee insurance premium 

Rest Assured

• Life Insurance: Policy of $50,000. Storyland covers 100% of employee life insurance premium
• Long Term Disability: Storyland covers 100% of employee LTD premium 

Enjoy Life

• Open PTO Policy: Storyland offers paid time off. Approval is contingent on the employee’s work performance and the impact on their team

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

Strategic Administration

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.

Value-Add Communications

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.

Beyond Assistance

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!

Logistics Liaison

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.

WHAT SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE

For day-to-day success, you will be responsible for …

Organization

• Manage and organise a broad variety of administrative tasks; including an extremely active calendar of appointments
• Coordinate and book all travel for CCO and additional staff our clients as needed
• Collate receipts and ensure the finance team can submit invoices to clients in good time
• Maintain a list of open items of all tasks that have been assigned
• Prioritise needs and bring projects to successful completion
• Run business and personal errands for CCO / Company as needed
• Support business development and marketing with industry related requests and coordination for events and requests for CCO involvement
• Support operations and creative managers with process improvement

Collaboration

• Coordinate and set up various meetings with clients and internal teams
• Communicate with tact and professionalism
• Able to be assertive but polite in the face of conflicting demands
• Build rapport with creative team, operations and strategic partners

Care-full Attention

• Reply to email correspondence and verbal requests in a timely manner
• Determine appropriate course of action, referral, or response
• Demonstrate professionalism and judgment in dealing with confidential and sensitive issues.
• Maintain privacy
• Other projects and duties as assigned

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE PARTY

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies and behavior:

• Friendly and Professional Demeanor – Ability to build and maintain relationships with staff, vendors and clients.
• Anticipates Needs – Ability to anticipate what’s next and acts before being asked.
• Customer Service – Demonstrates the highest level of service and efficiency.
• Flexibility – Ability to adapt to change while maintaining a positive attitude.
• Confidentiality – Upholds information in strict confidence; does not participate in gossip.
• Growth-mindset – You see feedback as a means to growth, rather than criticism.
• Dual Market Interest – You will be equally as comfortable and enthusiastic working with clients and partners in our themed entertainment market as you will with clients and partners in our cause market with Churches and Christian organizations.

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.

Mandatory Experience:

• At least 4 years holding a position of Executive Assistant or in a role performing Executive Assistant-type duties.
• To perform this job successfully an individual should have a working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and various office-related software.
• B.A.

Preferred Experience: (but not necessary)

• 2-3 years of client management or business development experience
• Experience working within a creative industry

ABOUT US

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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Build Strategic Stories

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.

Curiously pursue insights

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.

Play Matchmaker

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.

Speak C-Suite

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.

WHAT SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE

You will be accountable for our strategic storytelling and research

• Exhibit flexibility, kindness, and a willingness to learn. Yep, that’s the top of the list!
• You’ll partner closely with our Chief Strategy Officer to tackle consultative contract
  scopes of work, and strategic phases of larger projects, something we call “Strategic
  Storytelling”.
• Brief creative teams and project leaders on strategic parameters of a project to ensure the story starts on a strategic foundation.
• Collaborate with the broader creative team, executive producers and project managers
  to shape the creative strategies to enhance the guest experience or better integrate and
  extend partnering IP.
• You won’t mind helping our business development team more accurately answer RFP’s
  and join in on high-stakes business development calls to help them “sell while solving”.
• You demonstrate an ability to work on multiple projects concurrently, with confidence to multi-task and delegate as required.
• Build relationships across the studio in the UK and abroad to become a trusted voice
  and to share trends, knowledge and industry news.
• Strong client interactions that produce confidence in the studio.
• You will sit on the operations team as the leader of our strategic planning unit; you will be called on by a variety of studio members to help facilitate resolutions to roadblocks in strategic and creative process.
• Meets regularly with the Chief Strategy Officer as an ally in helping to grow the strategic storytelling capabilities of Storyland.
• Support the development of homegrown IP and identify opportunities for the IP of our
  clients to grow market share, and extend in innovative ways.
• Lead and manage project related conversations with regard to licensing agreements,
  go-to-market strategies and various kinds of partnerships.
• You’ll work to determine metrics for ROX on specific projects and help the studio to
  sharpen its methodology and thinking.
• On consultative projects, you will manage the project from end-to-end, from client
  engagement through project management around scope, schedule and budget.
• You’ll become a value collaborator to the creative team and a strategic mentor to others on the team.
• Help to build out a strategic planning function within the studio and duplicate yourself.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE PARTY

Skills and Qualifications

• You have a minimum of 10 years’ doing design strategy, consultancy services, IP
  strategy or location-based leisure entertainment management.
• You’re a graduate of a business, psychology, design, or architecture school.
• Bonus points for an advanced business degree or commensurate experience
  showcasing your business acumen.
• You have the ability to provide advice and recommendations in an informed and
  confident manner.
• You have a strong understanding of the theme park business, and the operations of place-based experiences and attractions.
• You’re insatiably curious. Your curiosity drives compelling insights that empower problem solving.
• You’re adept at benchmarking, desk-based research, observational studies, creating and guiding focus groups, drafting and fielding experience and performance surveys, and conducting stakeholder interviews.
• You’re a pro at group facilitation and a master jedi of active listening.
• You a leader. You inspire and cultivate confidence in those you work alongside.
• During your career, you have not just lived in concept land. You have extensive
  experience consulting on projects that were activated and grown.
• You’ve got a solid history of successfully forming stakeholder and partner teams.
• While you can carry a lot on your own, you enjoy having a pack and work well on team.
• Discretion and confidentiality are your friends.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Outstanding organizational skills; persistent, tactful and enthusiastic.
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills. 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 comfortable working in proximity to our cause and Christian faith-based projects which we do through our sister studio, PlainJoe – though the focus of this position is themed entertainment.
• You’re fluent in English—equally able to write or present.
• Bonus points for fluency in an extra language.

ABOUT US

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.

Apply

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

Amplify Story

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.

Nurture Connections

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.

Active Support

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.

Load the work

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.

WHAT SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE

For day-to-day success, you will be responsible for …

Organization

• Oversee content and performance across multiple channels — LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, and Email.
• Manage and organize your broad variety of marketing tasks, including a live marketing calendar.
• Daily creation, distribution, and community management of content across digital media channels. Ultimately, manage the creation and editing of content to serve Storyland’s funnel — articles, content upgrades, case studies, and multimedia content — to drive leads and awareness.
• Actively anticipate and research current industry events and celebrations with your intent being to post these moments across social media.
• Build and manage our approach to email marketing campaigns to nurture sales and qualified leads through the funnel.
• Prioritize marketing tasks and bring them to successful completion.
• Support business development and marketing with industry related requests and coordination for events and requests for CCO involvement
• Manage your static marketing calendar while being flexible enough to manage unexpected needs as they come.

Collaboration

• Coordinate marketing efforts and meetings between multiple teams, departments and people (internal as well as external freelancers when needed).
• Communicate with tact and professionalism with teams globally, you could be speaking with our CSO in London one day, and our CEO in LA the next.
• Be able to prioritise tasks quickly and efficiently.
• Steward your workload, be honest when you need support or proactive in reaching out if you have capacity to support.
• Champion clarity and find ways to provide deadlines, and meet them.
• Bring solutions to the table to solve a problem, then collaborate to continuously improve it.

Administration

• Assist in all marketing efforts as required.
• Maintain appropriate tracking of all digital marketing.
• Analyze and measure social media analytics, email reporting and monthly content performance to inform future content creation or campaign improvements.
• Update company social media platforms and media contact lists daily/weekly/monthly as needed.
• Keep up to date with daily processing of email and work-related messages.

Care-full Attention

• Reply to email correspondence and verbal requests in a timely manner.
• Maintain and a consistent marketing voice across Storyland’s digital platforms.
• Be willing to look for new and better processes to make things more efficient, always.
• Determine appropriate course of action, referral, or response to all marketing communication.
• Uphold confidential information – no exceptions.
• Other projects and duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE PARTY

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following…

Behaviors and Temperament

• Friendly and Professional Demeanor – Exhibit flexibility, kindness, and a willingness to learn. Yep, that’s the top of the list!
• Detail-orientation – Ability to catch the small stuff and keep it in perfect order.
• Anticipates Needs – Ability to anticipate what’s next and acts before being asked.
• Customer Service – Demonstrates the highest level of service and efficiency.
• Flexibility – Ability to adapt to change while maintaining a positive attitude.
• Confidentiality – Upholds information in strict confidence; does not participate in gossip.
• Humble & Hungry – Must have a unique combination of humility (willing to do what’s needed) and ambition (vision for what your future holds).

Skills and Competencies

• Experience leveraging various social media management software.
• Skilled in Hubspot or relevant email marketing software.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and manage multiple tasks with great attention to detail.
• Strong design sensibilities and a keen understanding of what works on different channels, platforms, and outlets.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Bonus points for a sense of humor.
• Have a deep understanding of the importance of data-driven insights.
• Ability to learn and adapt to performance quickly.
• Strong knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite, mainly Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects and Premiere.
• Basic photography knowledge, preferred.
• Familiarity with Box, Google Drive.
• A working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and various office-related software.

Experience:

• Preferred Bachelor’s Degree: Advertising/Marketing, Communications, Journalism, English, Business or Public Relations.
• 1-2 years of direct-response marketing.

ABOUT US

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.