Manager, Visitor Services

🏢 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art · 📍 Los Angeles · 💼 onsite · ⏰ Full-time 💰 $71,040 - $77,900 / 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 of Narrative Art is dedicated to delivering an exceptional experience for all onsite visitors. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Visitor Services, the Manager, Visitor Services plays a key role in achieving this objective through effective daily operations and consistently high standards of service.

As part of the Visitor Services leadership team, the Manager is responsible for supervising, coaching, and developing frontline staff and directing daily Visitor Services operations The Manager participates in hiring, training, and supervising frontline staff; creates weekly schedules in partnership with the Senior Manager; manages daily floor operations; maintains exceptional standards of customer service; oversees onsite ticketing and queuing; and assists visitors in all aspects of their visit. The Manager works cross-functionally to ensure publicly accessible spaces are clean, operational, and welcoming.

The Manager also serves as the venue Manager-on-Duty (MOD), exercising discretion and independent judgment in directing daily frontline operations. In this capacity, the Manager assesses operational needs, establishes priorities, directs Visitor Services staff deployment, resolves escalated visito

🎯 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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