Studio Project Manager, MENA

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Arab Emirates (UAE).

📋 Description

• Conduct client intake, clarify requirements, and transform requests into precise creative briefs.

• Develop and oversee production schedules for multiple concurrent campaigns, markets, and formats.

• Plan resource allocation and capacity across copy, design, and motion, identifying potential timeline risks.

• Manage asset versioning, naming conventions, and file delivery for 180 to 250 resizes per campaign.

• Oversee final quality assurance for language, branding, and specifications, and transfer assets to the media agency.

• Monitor deliverables throughout the review, approval, and launch stages.

• Act as the primary contact for client marketing teams, media agencies, and the lead brand agency on a daily basis.

• Facilitate status meetings, feedback sessions, and approvals while maintaining records of decisions made.

• Handle scope management and change requests, escalating any impacts on timelines or budgets.

• Establish the studio operating model, including intake processes, project tracking, file structures, and reporting.

• Integrate Gemini-enabled workflows with the creative team to enhance speed and productivity.

• Provide reports on volumes, turnaround times, and quality, along with recommendations for process enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of project, program, or traffic management experience in a creative agency, production studio, or in-house creative team.

• Demonstrated experience managing high-volume, multi-market creative production, including localization and adaptation.

• Robust understanding of digital production across video, social media, display (HTML5), and static formats, as well as media agency handoff.

• Experience working with MENA markets; proficiency in Arabic is a significant advantage.

• Comfortable using project management and workflow tools, with an openness to adopting AI tools for operational efficiency.

• Experience in establishing or scaling a studio, pod, or new client team is highly desirable.

• Fluency in English is required.

• Exceptionally organized, composed under pressure, and adept at managing multiple priorities simultaneously.

• Clear and confident communicator with senior client stakeholders.

• Proactive in identifying problems and addressing bottlenecks effectively.

• Keen attention to detail with respect to specifications, versions, and approvals.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

• Flexible working hours and a supportive work environment.

• Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.