Executive Creative Director - Theme Parks
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In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next! At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself.
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Overview
In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities.
Imagine Next!
At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself.
Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential.
Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible. **Job Description:**
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented **Executive Creative Director** to join our team!
Job Description
As the Executive Creative Director and senior-most creative authority, you will translate and embed the approved creative vision into cohesive, buildable, and operational experiential environments.
You will lead and integrate creative, technical, engineering, and construction teams, safeguarding the integrity of the intended visitor experience across all visitor-facing spaces, attractions, and live entertainment systems.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Providing strategic creative direction and multidisciplinary design integration across all visitor-facing environments and experiences.
- Endorsing and guiding design development to ensure the approved creative intent is accurately interpreted and consistently implemented.
- Reviewing technical resolutions, mock-ups, prototypes, and value engineering initiatives to verify preservation of creative integrity.
- Ensuring experiential cohesion between storytelling, spatial sequencing, guest journey planning, attraction mechanics, show systems, and operational requirements.
- Maintaining alignment between creative ambition, technical feasibility, lifecycle maintainability, and commercial constraints.
- Providing executive creative leadership through design development, procurement, fabrication, installation, commissioning, and opening readiness phases.
What Required Skills You’ll Bring
- Minimum 20 years of progressive multidisciplinary leadership experience in creative direction, experiential design integration, and large-scale entertainment or destination development.
- Demonstrated executive leadership and cross-sector project delivery experience on theme parks, location-based entertainment, IP-driven mega projects, immersive destinations, and large-scale visitor experience environments.
- Proven experience overseeing integrated design teams from concept through construction and operational handover.
- Advanced understanding of architectural coordination, show and ride systems integration, media environments, AV technologies, interactive systems, and spatial storytelling.
- Experience managing international consultant teams and contractor interfaces.
What Desired Skills You’ll Bring
- GCC project exposure preferred; experience in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is advantageous.
- Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
- We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars!
- Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!
- Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices.
- To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
Financial Wellness
We care about your financial wellbeing.
Parsons offers competitive pay and retirement plans to help you build wealth for the future while giving you the flexibility to diversify your investments.
Work Life Harmony
Balance in life is important and time away from the office is imperative to allow you to refresh and focus your attention on the things that matter to you.
Parsons supports your time away by providing paid time off and paid flexible holidays.
Career Development
We are committed to fostering the personal and professional growth of our employees.
Develop and advance yourself though our comprehensive training, educational and mentorship programs.
Veteran Support
We provide Industry leading benefits to support veterans and active-duty members to provide security for you and your family by offering robust leave and benefits; including paid active-duty military leave and paid time off when transitioning back to civilian life.
Mind & Body
At Parsons we inspire healthier habits, heathier minds, and a healthier you through our wellness program.
Participate in our weekly Meditation Mondays and Wellness Wednesdays.
Wellness, at Parsons, is more than just your annual checkup.
Health
Health is not a one size fits all.
At Parsons, we offer a robust Employee Assistance Program as well as comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans through large, national carriers with the choice of regional PPO, HDHP, or HMO networks.
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