Executive Creative Director – Theme Parks (Saudi Arabia) Riyadh

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/. Founded in 1944, Parsons Corporation, a digitally enabled solutions provider, is focused on creating the future of the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets. From Earth to outer space, we deliver tomorrow’s solutions today. Equipped with the capabilities required to take on any defense, intelligence, or critical infrastructure challenge, our agile, innovative, and disruptive approach enables us to deliver solutions at the speed of relevance. Our people are our greatest asset. We strive to be an employer of choice that engages employees in the community and creates rewarding career paths to cultivate a resilient workforce that is ready for the future. For more about Parsons, visit parsons.com and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Responsibilities

The Executive Creative Director will lead multidisciplinary teams to translate creative vision into cohesive, buildable, and operational experiential environments. They are responsible for safeguarding the integrity of the visitor experience across all attractions, show systems, and infrastructure from concept through to opening.

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