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Role overview

The Manager Creative Studio is responsible for steering the creative vision and day-to-day creative delivery of HIA’s in-house studio. The position spans brand design, campaigns, content creation, social video, and selected on-ground brand activations. The goal is to keep the HIA brand visually strong, distinctive, and relevant across digital, physical, and social touchpoints, while ensuring ideas are practical for a live airport setting.

What you will do

Define the studio’s creative direction, standards, visual principles, and execution priorities so brand expression remains distinctive, consistent, and high impact.
Build a culture of experimentation and high-quality craft by coaching the team, encouraging fresh thinking, and maintaining strong brand discipline.
Improve briefs and concepts by pushing beyond routine approaches and helping shape clearer, more compelling creative narratives.
Track global developments in design, content, social storytelling, and destination branding, then translate relevant ideas into studio practice.
Lead the creation of brand design and campaign look-and-feel by interpreting briefs, shaping concepts, and directing execution.
Oversee integrated campaign asset development across digital, social, print, OOH, signage, and environmental formats.
Protect brand consistency while adapting creative output for different audiences, channels, and moments.
Serve as the senior creative point of reference for brand expression, advising stakeholders and reviewing visual applications.
Direct content-led creative work, including social films, motion assets, short-form video, and visual storytelling for digital channels.
Shape narratives, pacing, formats, and visual treatments to make content more engaging and channel-appropriate.
Work with Brand, Marketing, Digital, Corporate Communications, and Internal Communication teams to improve reach, engagement, and brand perception.
Encourage testing of new content formats and visual approaches within brand and quality parameters.
Provide creative direction for selected on-ground activations and events, including visual concepts, layouts, and asset review.
Make sure event visuals and messaging support wider campaigns and digital narratives.
Lead, coach, and develop the Creative Studio team while setting clear expectations and performance standards.
Prioritise briefs and manage workflow across campaign work, content demand, and team capacity to support timely delivery.
Review and approve outputs for quality, consistency, brand fit, and readiness for release.
Promote a collaborative studio culture built on open feedback, constructive challenge, and shared problem-solving.
Partner with internal stakeholders to interpret briefs, align expectations, and develop integrated creative solutions.
Present ideas clearly, explain creative rationale, and support stakeholder decisions and approvals.
Coordinate with external agencies or production partners when specialist support or additional scale is needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent qualification, along with at least 8 years of relevant experience.
Background in leading creative teams, studios, or substantial creative workstreams.
Strong creative direction capability across brand design, campaigns, and content.
Hands-on experience with social content, film, and motion-based storytelling.
Ability to balance creative ambition with operational needs and stakeholder expectations.
Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach and develop creative talent.
Confident communication skills and the ability to explain and defend creative ideas.

Preferred experience

Experience in aviation, travel, hospitality, or large destination brands.
Exposure to experiential marketing or on-ground activations.
Experience working in bilingual or multicultural environments.

Additional information

Job reference: 26000097

Location: Qatar, Doha

Job family: Corporate & Commercial

Closing date: 2026-07-17

This role is a temporary onsite position.

The role is attached to HIA’s creative operations and involves close collaboration across brand, marketing, digital, communications, events, and customer experience teams.

Manager Creative Studio