Group Sales Manager

🏢 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art · 📍 Los Angeles · 💼 onsite · ⏰ Full-time 💰 $85,000 - $99,000 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

ABOUT THE LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is dedicated to illustrated storytelling. Founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the museum’s collection features works by artists including Norman Rockwell, Kadir Nelson, Jessie Willcox Smith, N. C. Wyeth, Beatrix Potter, Judith F. Baca, Frida Kahlo, and Maxfield Parrish; as well as comic art legends such as Winsor McCay, Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, and R. Crumb; and photographers Gordon Parks, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dorothea Lange. The Museum also houses the Lucas Archives, containing models, props, concept art, and costumes from Lucas’s filmmaking career.

Designed by Ma Yansong of MAD with a landscape by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA, the Museum is in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, on an 11-acre campus that includes new green space and a 300,000-square-foot building with galleries, two theaters, a library, restaurant, café, retail store, and community spaces. 

POSITION SUMMARY

The Lucas Museum is sharply focused on creating a superior and inclusive experience for all our visitors. The Group Sales Manager has a key role in achieving this objective. Groups — tour and travel, school and youth, corporate, and community — are among the Museum’s most visible audiences and a significant driver of attendance and earned revenue. The Group Sales Manager is responsible for building this business as the Museum opens, and for making the group visit welcoming, well-run, and worth repeating.

Reporting to Director, Visitor Services, the Group Sales Manager owns the full group sales cycle: prospecting, pitching, negotiating, contracting, booking, and retaining group business across all segments. The Manager also develops and manages the Museum’s guided tour program, working closely with Visitor Services so that the content, capacity, and quality of tours reflect the excellence of the Museum. This is a relationship-driven, entrepreneurial position for someone who is comfortable carrying a target, working a pipeline, and representing the Museum to external partners.

The Group Sales Manager will set and meet group revenue and attendance goals, monitor demand and market trends, and use data to shape pric

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

They evaluate your profound respect for narrative art, cultural stewardship, and your ability to operate at the intersection of world-class visitor experience and institutional operations.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Treating the museum strictly as a corporate entertainment venue rather than a cultural institution
2. Lacking cultural literacy regarding narrative art history and visual storytelling
3. Displaying a rigid, bureaucratic approach to creative operations and stakeholder management

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I protect and amplify creative vision by translating world-class artistic storytelling into seamless, unforgettable institutional experiences.

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