Senior Creative Director (4 years fixed-term)

Location: London, United Kingdom. Based in the London Hammersmith office four days per week, with either Monday or Friday working from home. Frequent international travel is required.

Company

Walt Disney Imagineering creates Disney theme parks, resorts, attractions, cruise ships, and immersive entertainment experiences worldwide.

What you will do

• Guide the creative development of large-scale attractions, interactive experiences, and land expansion projects.
• Create, articulate, and maintain the creative vision from Blue Sky through opening.
• Lead ideation using treatments, concept art, storyboards, models, previsualization, and animatics.
• Align multidisciplinary teams across story, content, visual design, guest experience, quality, and execution.
• Partner with producers and project managers on creative objectives, scope, budget, schedule, and quality decisions.
• Direct creative disciplines, present concepts to stakeholders, resolve conflicts, and develop internal and external creative talent.

Requirements

• Significant experience in design, production, architectural design, live theater, film, interactive entertainment, or a related field.
• Experience leading the creative development and completion of projects with moderate scale and complexity.
• Thorough knowledge of creative development processes and deliverables.
• Knowledge of theatrical and entertainment technologies, including lighting, special effects, media, show systems, and ride system integration.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, align stakeholders, and communicate complex creative concepts to executives, partners, and external audiences.
• Proficiency in scripting, narratives, concept design, storyboards, 3D modeling, dimensional design, and visualization tools.

Nice to have

• Experience with D-Ticket, E-Ticket, interactive, or land expansion projects.
• Experience integrating ride systems, theatrical technologies, media, and live entertainment.
• Experience coaching and mentoring creative talent or working with intellectual property, licensors, and major entertainment brands.
• Bachelor's or Master of Fine Arts degree in a related discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Work shaped by values of integrity, inclusion, creativity, collaboration, and community.
• 25 days of annual leave.
• Private medical insurance and dental care.
• Parental and guardian leave.
• Disney theme park admission, employee discounts, and employee resource groups.