Manager Creative Studio

The Manager Creative Studio leads the creative vision and delivery of HIA’s in-house creative studio across brand design, campaigns, content creation, social film, and selected on-ground brand activations. This role is responsible for how ideas are developed, expressed, and executed creatively, ensuring the HIA brand is consistently strong, visually distinctive, and relevant across digital, physical, and social channels. The role balances creative ambition with operational delivery, setting a high bar for craft, storytelling, and innovation while ensuring work is practical, on-brand, and fit for a live airport environment.

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Location: Qatar-Doha
Job family: Corporate & Commercial
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The Manager Creative Studio leads the creative vision and delivery of HIA’s in-house creative studio across brand design, campaigns, content creation, social film, and selected on-ground brand activations. This role is responsible for how ideas are developed, expressed, and executed creatively, ensuring the HIA brand is consistently strong, visually distinctive, and relevant across digital, physical, and social channels. The role balances creative ambition with operational delivery, setting a high bar for craft, storytelling, and innovation while ensuring work is practical, on-brand, and fit for a live airport environment.

• Set the creative direction and ambition for the Creative Studio by defining creative standards, visual principles, and execution priorities to achieve distinctive, consistent, and high-impact brand expression across brand design, campaigns, content, and social formats.
• Foster a culture of creativity, experimentation, and high craft standards by coaching the studio team, encouraging fresh thinking, and reinforcing brand discipline to achieve innovative creative solutions that remain aligned with HIA’s brand identity.
• Strengthen creative briefs and concepts by challenging conventional approaches, guiding idea development, and shaping clearer narratives to achieve more compelling, relevant, and impactful creative.
• Elevate creative output by monitoring global trends in design, content, social storytelling, and destination branding and translating relevant insights into studio practice to achieve contemporary, competitive, and audience-relevant brand communications.
• Lead the creative development of brand design outputs and campaign look-and-feel by interpreting briefs, shaping creative concepts, and guiding execution to achieve outputs that are aligned with the approved brand direction and campaign objectives.
• Oversee the creation of integrated campaign assets by directing design adaptation across digital, social, print, OOH, signage, and environmental touchpoints to achieve consistent, channel-appropriate, and campaign-aligned brand delivery.
• Maintain brand consistency by applying brand standards while adapting creative expression to different audiences, channels, and moments to achieve flexible, relevant, and recognisable HIA communications.
• Act as the senior creative reference for HIA brand expression by advising stakeholders, reviewing visual applications, and guiding creative interpretation to achieve consistent and high-quality brand representation across the organisation.
• Oversee the development of content-led creative by directing social films, motion assets, short-form video, and visual storytelling for digital channels to achieve engaging, brand-aligned, and platform-relevant content.
• Guide creative storytelling across platforms by shaping narratives, formats, pacing, and visual treatments to achieve content that is engaging, relevant, and appropriate for each channel.
• Develop creative content…