Brand Marketing Manager

The Role

Ziina is looking for a Brand Marketing Manager to help define the future of one of the region's most loved brands.

This is a rare moment to join. Our brand strategy is being sharpened, a refresh is on the way, our consumer product is launching in full force, and the biggest campaigns in Ziina's history are ahead of us. The foundations are set. What we need now is someone who can build on them — someone who treats the brand as a system to be designed, not a queue of deliverables to be shipped.

You'll own brand initiatives from the first idea to the moment they're live in the world, and you'll be trusted with the judgment calls in between: what we say yes to, what we walk away from, and what "unmistakably Ziina" means at every touchpoint. You'll move fluidly between strategy and execution — writing the brief in the morning, reviewing the creative in the afternoon — and you'll raise the bar on both.

As a Brand Marketing Manager at Ziina you will:

Own brand initiatives from first idea to launch: write the brief, set the timeline, align the teams involved, and ship the work

Support integrated campaigns with Product Marketing, Growth, Partnerships, PR, Social, and Creative — one brief, one story, every channel

Keep the brand consistent across every touchpoint: review social content, campaign assets, partner materials, and in-app copy, and fix what's off

Work across all 7 C's: content, campaigns, creative direction and identity, culture, creators, community, and events

Brief and manage content creators: choose them, write the brief, review the work, and own the relationship end to end

Follow trends daily and decide which ones Ziina joins — then move fast when we do

Test ideas small before scaling them: run the experiment, read the results, then put budget behind what works

Build repeatable formats, templates, and playbooks so good work doesn't start from zero every time

Turn brand strategy into campaign concepts, content direction, and briefs that teams can execute

Give clear, direct feedback to designers, writers, creators, and agencies

Key skills and characteristics

You have 5+ years in brand marketing, with at least some of them at a startup or creative-led business where you built things rather than inherited them

You balance strategy and execution without treating either as beneath you — you can write the strategy doc and also notice the kerning

You have good taste and strong judgment: you know what "good" looks like across formats and platforms, you can explain why, and you can defend it in a room

You're a strong project manager: multiple workstreams, many stakeholders, moving deadlines — and the details still get handled

You've briefed and managed content creators and influencers, and you know how to get work that feels native to the creator and still unmistakably Ziina

You're culturally fluent across MENA and global internet culture, and you can tell the difference between a moment worth joining and a trend that will age badly

You test before you scale: you'd rather prove an idea with a small, fast experiment than bet the quarter on a hunch

You think in systems: when you solve a problem twice, you build the playbook so no one has to solve it a third time

You live in, or are willing to move to, the UAE

What would amaze us

You've run campaigns across both consumer and business audiences and understand how one brand can serve two worlds without diluting either

A proven track record of orchestrating viral moments or high-performing niche posts (for yourself or a brand), with examples

You’ve shown up as the voice of a brand through proactive engagement that created buzz and word of mouth

Experience working on a brand with a strong community or cultural presence

An eye for design, aesthetics, and visual storytelling (you notice details and you care about craft)

A portfolio or social accounts you’ve helped grow or shape

Practical, proven use of AI tools to scale content output (drafting variations, tightening copy, repurposing, or pulling insights), without losing voice and taste

A genuine interest in the intersection of culture, creativity, and technology

Experience in fintech, consumer apps, or fast-growing startups

Practical, proven use of AI tools to speed up creative workflows without compromising taste or brand quality

A genuine interest in the intersection of culture, creativity, and finance — and a perspective on what a Middle Eastern brand can mean to the world