Head of Digital

Sky News Arabia
, an IMI company, is a leading pan-Arab news organisation, broadcasting 24/7 across the Arabic-speaking world through a free-to-air TV channel, radio station, and a myriad of online platforms to bring audiences fast, accurate news and information. With nearly 400 dedicated staff and multimedia journalists, we operate from multiple bureaux across MENA, Europe, and the US, ensuring comprehensive coverage of breaking news, business, lifestyle, arts, culture, and sports.

Sky News Arabia is also committed to empowering the next generation of media professionals through its training arm, Sky News Arabia Academy. Sky News Arabia is a joint venture between IMI and Sky UK.

The Head of Digital provides strategic and operational leadership for Sky News Arabia’s digital platforms, ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality, credible news content aligned with the organization’s editorial standards and objectives.

The role oversees the development, production, and distribution of digital content across online news, social media, video, podcasts, and interactive formats, working closely with editorial, programs, and production teams to strengthen cross-platform integration and audience engagement.

This position requires a forward-looking leader with a strong understanding of digital transformation in a newsroom environment, capable of driving editorial quality, platform growth, and innovation while maintaining alignment with Sky News Arabia’s editorial vision and values.

• Lead the development and execution of a comprehensive digital strategy aligned with Sky News Arabia’s editorial vision and business objectives, ensuring high-quality, credible, and impactful digital output across all platforms.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership to digital content teams, including Online, Social Media, and Multimedia teams, fostering a culture of editorial excellence, innovation, accountability, and collaboration.
• Oversee the end-to-end digital content lifecycle across research, production, editing, verification, publishing, and distribution, ensuring consistency, accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with editorial standards in a 24/7 newsroom environment.
• Actively lead and institutionalize the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across digital operations, identifying, evaluating, and implementing AI-driven tools and workflows that enhance editorial efficiency, accelerate news production, improve content accuracy, support data-driven storytelling, and optimize publishing performance.
• Ensure that all AI applications are adopted in a responsible, ethical, and editorially governed manner, aligned with Sky News Arabia’s editorial standards, journalistic integrity, compliance requirements, and audience trust.
• Drive innovation in digital storytelling, multimedia formats, and audience engagement by working closely with editorial, programs, technology, and AI transformation teams to deliver integrated, cross-platform content.
• Manage and grow Sky News Arabia’s digital presence across websites and social media platforms, using data insights and AI-supported analytics to maximize reach, engagement, and content performance.
• Monitor emerging trends in digital media, journalism, technology, and artificial intelligence, continuously assessing and integrating relevant innovations to maintain competitiveness in the digital newsroom.
• Partner with analytics, product, and marketing teams to track performance, analyze audience behavior, and improve user experience through data-informed and AI-supported decision-making.
• Develop and maintain digital policies, guidelines, and workflows that govern content standards, platform use, and the ethical application of AI across digital platforms.
• Prepare and manage digital budgets, including investments in AI technologies and digital tools, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and measurable return on investment.

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in journalism or digital media, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role within a digital or editorial team.
• Proven experience in leading digital transformation initiatives…