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Creative Director – Show, Media, Games and Gamification

Unlock employer Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Posted: 14 Apr 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $80k - $125k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

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The company is seeking an exceptionally talented Creative Director to join our team. In this role, you will operate under the Executive Creative Director to safeguard and oversee the implementation of the approved creative vision for all show-based, media-driven, interactive, and gamified elements. You will serve as the discipline-specific creative guardian for show, media, game, and gamified experiences, ensuring that third-party deliverables faithfully interpret and implement the approved direction.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Oversee, review, and validate show, media, interactive, and gameplay design submissions to confirm alignment with the approved creative vision, design intent, narrative, experiential benchmarks, and design principles.
  • Review and endorse scripts, storyboards, animatics, gameplay mechanics, UX flows, media treatments, and other relevant content prepared by vendors.
  • Oversee media production pipelines, including filmed content, animation, real-time engine content, projection mapping, and interactive systems.
  • Ensure timely review and endorsement of creative deliverables from stakeholders, vendors, and sub-vendors.
  • Safeguard the experiential pacing, emotional arc, audience engagement, and replay value of content.
  • Monitor integration of show and media systems with ride systems, show action equipment, AV infrastructure, control systems, and digital engagement platforms.
  • Assess technical resolutions and value engineering proposals affecting show, media, and game systems to preserve experiential integrity.
  • Coordinate closely with the Executive Creative Director to ensure cross-disciplinary alignment between spatial design, attractions, show systems, interactive technologies, and operational functionality.
  • Provide formal creative endorsement, with Executive Creative Director concurrence, at key submission stages, including concept validation, design development, pre-production approval, prototype review, FAT, SAT, integration, commissioning, and opening readiness.

Required Skills:

  • Minimum 15 years of experience in show direction, media creative leadership, immersive media and entertainment oversight, gamified location-based entertainment environments, and/or interactive experience development.
  • Proven experience overseeing creative processes for theme park attractions, location-based entertainment, immersive experiences, and live productions.
  • Demonstrated experience guiding third-party media studios, game developers, interactive vendors, and show contractors.
  • Strong technical literacy in show control systems, AV integration, projection technologies, real-time media platforms, interactive systems, and gameplay logic.
  • Experience supporting projects through design validation, technical coordination, testing, commissioning, and operational launch.
  • Experience within IP-governed environments.

Desired Skills:

  • Experience working with international IP owners and licensors.

Language Requirements:
(If applicable, please specify language proficiency or requirements here).

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