Dubai Studio Project Manager — MENA

Algomarketing Ltd.; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Algomarketing Ltd. in Dubai, UAE, is seeking a senior Project Manager to run day-to-day delivery for a new MENA creative studio. You will own client intake, briefing, planning and trafficking, and set up how the studio operates from the start.

The role covers two workstreams: original lower-funnel content and adaptation of global campaigns for local markets, with KSA, Egypt, Morocco and Iraq as primary markets. Fluent English is essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project, programme or traffic management experience in a creative agency, production studio or in-house creative team.
• Proven experience running high-volume, multi-market creative production, including localisation and adaptation.
• Strong knowledge of digital production: video, social, display (HTML5) and static formats, and media agency handoff.
• Experience working with MENA markets; Arabic language skills are a strong plus.
• Confident with project management and workflow tools, and comfortable adopting AI tools to speed up operations.
• Experience setting up or scaling a studio, pod or new client team is a strong plus.
• Fluent English is essential.

Responsibilities

• Run client intake: capture requests, clarify requirements and turn them into clear briefs for the creative team.
• Build and manage production schedules across concurrent campaigns, markets and formats.
• Plan resourcing and capacity across copy, design and motion, flagging risks to timelines early.
• Manage asset versioning, naming and file delivery for 180 to 250 resizes per campaign.
• Coordinate final QA (language, brand, specs) and hand off assets to the media agency against the media plan.
• Track every deliverable through review, approval, and launch.
• Act as the day-to-day contact for our client’s marketing teams, the media agency, and the lead brand agency.
• Run status meetings, feedback rounds and approvals, and keep clear records of decisions.
• Manage scope and change requests, escalating where they affect timelines or budget.
• Set up the studio's operating model: intake process, project tracking, file structures and reporting.
• Work with the creative team to embed Gemini-enabled workflows that improve speed and throughput.
• Report on volumes, turnaround times and quality, and recommend process improvements.

Skills

Project management

Multi-market production

Digital production

MENA market experience

Arabic language skills

AI tools in operations

Studio setup/scaling

Fluent English

Job description

Algomarketing Ltd. in Dubai, UAE, is seeking a senior Project Manager to run day-to-day delivery for a new MENA creative studio. You will own client intake, briefing, planning and trafficking, and set up how the studio operates from the start.

The role covers two workstreams: original lower-funnel content and adaptation of global campaigns for local markets, with KSA, Egypt, Morocco and Iraq as primary markets. Fluent English is essential.