As *the* global leader of drone light show entertainment, Nova Sky Stories is advancing drone entertainment with a veteran team of artists and engineers. 

Through our seamless fusion of technology and artistry, Nova transforms drone performances into breathtaking Sky Stories that capture hearts and minds.

We prioritize safety by developing lightweight, small, precise drones and optimizing reliability to seamlessly fly in urban areas, extreme temperatures, and high winds. 

With offices across the USA and Europe, Nova Sky Stories is an international company working with the world’s greatest venues, brands, and events. 

Follow Nova across all social media platforms @NovaSkyStories.

Industry: Entertainment Providers
Company Size: 11-50 employees

Nova Sky Stories

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At **Nova Sky Stories **, we empower artists and producers to bring awe and wonder to live audiences around the world. As the global leader in **drone entertainment **, we’ve been redefining live shows for over a decade—merging cutting-edge drone technology with imaginative artistry.

With a veteran team of engineers and creatives, we design and operate lightweight, small, precise, and safe drones that perform in the most demanding environments—urban centers, extreme temperatures, and high winds. The result? **Sky Stories ** that inspire, captivate, and transform the sky into a canvas of imagination.

Headquartered in the U.S. with teams across Europe and the UAE, Nova Sky Stories works with the world’s leading brands, venues, and events.

📱 Follow us: **@NovaSkyStories**

The Nova Sky Stories team is a passionate group of creative and technical collaborators with a hands-on approach to building unforgettable experiences for live audiences around the world.

As part of Nova Sky Stories, you’ll work closely with designers, creatives, and cross-functional teams across multiple global offices—sharing creativity, technical knowledge, and a passion for storytelling.

We are seeking an experienced and visionary **Art Director ** to define, inspire, and oversee the visual execution of our projects. This role serves as the central creative authority, translating client objectives and brand standards into compelling visual narratives.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who can seamlessly bridge the gap between creative strategy, design execution, technical requirements, and client satisfaction.

**As An Art Director, You’ll Be Responsible For**

- Define and oversee the visual direction for assigned projects and campaigns

- Inspire, mentor, and guide the design team, ensuring all work is on-brand, meets the highest quality standards, and effectively achieves storytelling goals

- Act as the primary creative lead and central point of communication between clients, the internal design team, and production teams

- Drive the implementation of the overall creative strategy, ensuring consistency and innovation across all touchpoints

- Manage client relationships and expectations, presenting concepts and creative rationale clearly and persuasively

- Ensure creative output aligns with technical, production, and budget requirements

- Oversee projects from concept through final delivery, ensuring high-quality execution and on-time delivery

- Help shape and maintain Nova’s digital brand presence across website and social channels

- Own and manage website content, ensuring messaging and visuals remain current, compelling, and aligned with brand positioning

- Build and maintain content calendars that support consistent storytelling across key channels

**You’ll Need To Have**

- 5+ years of professional experience in storytelling, concept creation, or visual design

- 3+ years of proven experience leading, managing, and mentoring creative teams

- 2+ years of experience related to drone-based creative work (e.g. drone light shows, aerial visuals, drone cinematography, immersive experiences, or similar specialized fields)

- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute cohesive visual strategies

- Exceptional presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills

- Expert-level knowledge of design software and production pipelines relevant to the industry

**It’s a Plus If You Have**

- Experience helping shape and maintain a company’s digital brand presence across website and social channels

- Ability to own and manage website content, ensuring it remains current, visually compelling, and aligned with brand positioning

- Experience building and maintaining content calendars to support consistent storytelling and brand engagement across key channels

- Experience creating, publishing, and optimizing content across platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram, and other digital channels

- Comfortable balancing high-level creative direction with hands-on creative execution

- Experience working within fast-paced startup, entertainment, experiential, or live production environments

~~If you're ready to play a key role in supporting the operational backbone of a company redefining storytelling in the sky, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to help keep Nova Sky Stories flying high.~~

Art Director

We connect customers with integrated solutions & predictive technologies to ensure they stay ahead of emerging threats.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Lockheed Martin

**Basic Qualifications**

-  Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field; or equivalent work experience

-  Strong problem solving skills

-  Experience with complex system of systems architecture, design, and implementation

-  Active current Top Secret to start, ability to obtain TS-SCI. US Citizenship is required.

**Job Description**

Curious where the nation is going with Overhead Persistent Infrared?

Join Lockheed Martin's team that crafts and builds the current and future generation of space systems that creatively combines satellite technology, sophisticated sensors, and data processing to provide crucial global infrared data 24/7. This mission advises Presidential decisions and defends the US and its allies in a rapidly evolving environment. Help us advance our OPIR designs and deliver survivable satellites with nuclear-hardened electronics, sophisticated communications, resiliency and cyber security. OPIR is a mission area where you can make big things happen and solve some of the country’s hardest problems. Come join a team that has a vision for the future of space and knows what it takes to get there.

Lockheed Martin is looking for an energetic Systems Engineer to join the Next Generation GEO (NGG) team in Denver, Colorado. This position is in support of the NextGen OPIR program, responsible for testing interfaces with various USSF and Joint organizations and their supporting contractors, and will define the scope of testing necessary to demonstrate Space to Ground System Certification and prepare the vehicles for Operational Acceptance.

**In This Role You Will**

-  Support development and execution of approval processes for changes to the launch and operational baselines for NGG interim operations.

-  Coordinate with the USSF to gain concurrence for proceeding with changes

-  Review change packages for technical accuracy and completeness

-  Support the development of deployment plans for new software releases

-  Review planned regression testing and ensure suitability for operations

-  Support system updates and operational testing

-  Provide technical support and information to government personnel performing operations, operational test, and assist engineering teams in troubleshooting efforts

-  Travel along the Front Range of Colorado on a weekly basis will be required, with out of state travel for technical interchange meetings, design reviews and system test activities

**Desired Skills**

-  Experience with Space and Ground resiliency architecture, implementation, test, and operations

-  Ability to absorb extensive technical detail and logically formulate solutions for execution on an inflexible schedule, often requiring integration of conflicting and, at times, incomplete data

-  Ability to interact with hardware and software developers to ensure mission requirements are satisfied

-  Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications with strong presentation skills and capable of briefing audiences of varying technical knowledge

-  Ability to operate in a dynamic environment and take on numerous roles as part of the daily program operations

-  Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong social skills, and ability to build consensus among peers while building solid relationships with team members

-  Demonstrated behaviors of a systems thinker with the ability to select and apply appropriate systems thinking skills to solve problems and implement constructive change

-  TS/SCI security clearance

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**Other Important Information**

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

**Ability to work remotely**

Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.

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