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Working in themed entertainment globally, you’ll be at the heart of the story, creating and protecting the emotional journey through guest experiences. You’ll work with Producers, Art Directors, and Engineers to bring amazing ideas to life.

Key Responsibilities of a Creative Director:

• Define the creative intent.
• Set the “story” and communicate it through tangible, measurable deliverables.
• Establish and guide the “vision” that all contributors work, design, and deliver. Lead the creative vision for creative disciplines within the team.
• Work closely with Business Development to enable the winning of profitable business that supports Holovis’ Strategic objectives.
• Work with Lead Art to define the creative intent for the art output required in a pitch, ensuring the output is reflective of the intent and that it is realistic and viable to the presumed budget and schedule.
• Break down the project into work packages and tasks that meet the creative intent.
• Ensure buildability to the concepts and protect the creative intent by designing responsibly.
• Own and champion the Concept Book (“Pitch Deck” or “Theme Book”).
• Liaise with clients on creative decisions, ensuring that deliverables conform to the creative intent and the client’s understanding of it.
• Consult to ensure proper budgeting and scheduling are in place to execute the creative intent.
• Oversee the design and development of the creative intent through Design, determine the mock-ups, play testing, and other requirements needed to deliver upon the creative intent.

About You

• You’ll have delivered exceptional guest experiences
• You’ll have a passion for location-based entertainment
• You’ll have experience in seeing projects through from ideation to opening day
• You’ll be comfortable talking to a park owner, financier, artist, engineer, or guest, and you’ll know how to get the best from each conversation
• You’ll be excited about developing the team around you

This role requires international travel, as well as plenty of time on-site as well as in Holovis workspaces. You’ll need to live within easy commuting distance of the Holovis office and be passionate about spending time with the team there.

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Primary Job Purpose:

To deliver location based entertainment projects to customers, on time, to budget and quality through effective resource optimisation and the application of robust project and account management.

The role involves:

1. Liaising directly with customers and technical teams at all levels of seniority
2. Managing projects and programmes of work in the US and globally, ranging from small- to large, multi-million dollar scopes
3. Delivering projects such as design and installation of software and complex AV to support park wide initiatives

Responsibilities:

Project Management:

1. Delivery of projects
2. Identifying and managing dependencies which may affect the success of the project, including 3rd party activities
3. Establishing and agreeing baseline project scope, budget and timescales
4. Identifying and managing project RAID criteria
5. Assigning, controlling, leading and motivating all project resources
6. Managing sponsor and other stakeholder expectations through regular reporting, communication and an effective project audit trail
7. Scheduling, tracking, and generating invoices for projects.

People Management:

1. Matrix managing a highly skilled project team to deliver the project
2. Planning and managing the deployment of resources to meet project milestones
3. Setting achievable objectives, taking responsibility for decisions and for providing constructive feedback
4. Communicating difficult or sensitive information tactfully to colleagues and clients.

Technical Understanding:

1. Understand themed entertainment, location based entertainment, mobile app development, and game development
2. Maintaining an awareness of new and emerging software and technologies and the potential application on client engagements
3. Experience working with project planning tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, 10,000ft, JIRA, etc.

About You:

• Industry certifications such as PMP, ScrumMaster, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, etc. preferred
• Experience of having managed themed entertainment projects end to end, with full budget responsibility
• Happy to travel, in the US and on long haul trips
• Experience working with international teams across borders (both internally and client-side) would be great.
• The role is based in Orlando, Florida, you must have the right to live and work in the USA. For this role you must live within commuting distance of the Holovis office.

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Technical Director – Audio Visual Systems

Primary Job Purpose:

As Technical Director you will be responsible for bringing world-class themed entertainment attractions to life. Through your strong technical skills, engineering creativity and organisational capability you will lead a multidisciplinary team to design, build, install and commission innovative experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the comprehensive integrated technical solution, from Initiation to Close.
• Own the technical risk profile and pursue de-risking strategies
• Own the solution’s technical debt, working with the management team to refactor resources to burn down the debt.
• Maintain oversight and close relationship with suppliers, vendors and key partners contracted to deliver on the integrated solution.
• Serve as the key liaison between the technical members of the Extended Team who are contributing to the attraction-level integrated solution.
• Own and effectively deliver the work packages associated with your domain
• Ensure that Leads in your team are owning and effectively delivering the work packages associated with their domain
• Serve as the decision maker when there is conflict between different disciplines’ approaches to a technical solution.
• Increase profitability of your projects by implementing efficiencies with the project’s Leads and Solution Architects on their team.

About You:

• You’ll be confident working in offices, boardrooms, and construction sites as well as clean EERs
• You’ll have a successful track record of high-quality installed designs behind you
• You’ll be as comfortable leading your team as you will liaising with fellow vendors, clients and suppliers to ensure world-beating designs
• You’ll have a degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
• You’ll have the right to live, work and drive in the USA
• You’ll have an unrestricted right to travel globally.

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