Production Manager

About the platform

Role summary

Creative and visual leadership

• Lead the multidisciplinary craft team and own visual language across shows and formats, including mood, lensing, lighting, camera work, sets, composition, motion, and storytelling.
• Set aesthetic and technical standards, direct visual identity, and adapt execution to brand and platform needs.
• Provide creative direction and feedback throughout production; review key visual assets, edits, graphics, photography, and final cuts.
• Encourage experimentation and ensure assets demonstrate strong visual craft, finish, and attention to detail.

Production management

• Manage end-to-end filming, editing, graphics, photography, and post-production workflows; plan schedules, resources, and delivery across the content pipeline.
• Assess project requirements, assign creative and technical resources, and balance concurrent productions, deadlines, quality, and priorities.
• Improve workflows and turnaround times, monitor progress, and address creative, technical, or resource challenges.
• Coordinate with Show Leads, Content Producers, editorial teams, and stakeholders; manage external partners, freelancers, and suppliers as needed.
• Support shoot planning for locations, equipment, crew, sets, lighting, and other technical needs.

Team leadership and development

• Set clear team roles, responsibilities, priorities, and expectations; provide regular creative and technical feedback.
• Identify capability gaps and recommend training, development, or additional resources.
• Build collaboration and knowledge sharing across video, editing, graphics, and photography; support recruitment and onboarding as needed.

Platform delivery, standards, and compliance

• Deliver visual content in platform-native formats for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and other relevant platforms; adapt aspect ratios, durations, resolutions, and other specifications.
• Work with the Head of Shows, Show Leads, audience, social, and digital teams to support editorial objectives and optimize storytelling based on performance.
• Track emerging production techniques, visual trends, platform developments, and audience behavior.
• Maintain visual quality standards and quality-control processes; ensure compliance with brand, editorial, copyright, legal, and technical requirements.
• Escalate significant risks and maintain asset management and production documentation to protect brand consistency and reputation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary creative or production teams and maintaining standards across multiple shows, formats, or platforms.
• Strong expertise in cinematography, lighting, camera, composition, editing, graphics, photography, and visual storytelling.
• Strong understanding of digital-first, platform-native production, end-to-end workflows, and production pipeline, resource, schedule, and project management.
• Excellent creative judgment, attention to detail, leadership, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills; able to balance creative ambition with practical constraints.
• Experience managing external production partners, freelancers, and suppliers is preferred.
• Fluency in Arabic and English is preferred.
• Minimum 8–10 years of relevant professional experience; bachelor's degree in film, television production, media, visual arts, communications, or a related field.