Marketing & Comms Lead Brand & Ecosystem

The Studio is part of Utopia Capital’s integrated venture platform — combining AI-native venture building, capital, and shared infrastructure to help founders build faster and smarter. Every role here directly contributes to launching and scaling AI-native companies across the Global South, from idea to Series A.

**About The Studio**:
The Studio is an AI-native venture builder for the Global South, purpose-built to transform high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies.

Partnering with domain experts & high-agency founders from concept to Series A, it both builds new ventures and re-engineers existing ones for AI-driven growth.

Powered by UTOPIA OS — a modular, adaptive stack tailored to each venture — it compresses the path from concept to Series A to under 24 months.

**About the Role**:
We're hiring a Marketing & Communications Lead to own the Studio's brand narrative and ecosystem presence — across content, communications, events, and storytelling.

You'll define how Utopia Studio and the broader platform show up in the world — from founder stories and media coverage to ecosystem partnerships and events. You're part brand architect, part storyteller, and part community builder.

This is a strategic and hands-on role. You'll focus on what’s essential to build credibility and visibility while working with trusted agencies and freelancers for PR, design, and production.

**Reports to**: Studio Directors (with a dotted line to the Managing Partner on fund and platform-related communications)
**Growth path**: Head of Brand & Ecosystem / Chief Marketing Officer

**Responsibilities**:
**Brand & Communications Strategy**:

- Develop and evolve The Studio and Utopia brands, keeping them consistent across ventures, partners, and media

- Lead our overall communications strategy — focusing on high-impact narratives, ecosystem storytelling, and founder visibility

- Translate complex AI, product, and venture ideas into human, compelling stories

- Manage agencies and freelancers for design, PR, and content execution

- Ensure every message reinforces our mission of making Doha the launchpad for AI-native innovation

**Content Creation & Storytelling**:

- Ghostwrite and edit founder stories, venture updates, and thought leadership pieces for investors, founders, and partners

- Oversee _Intersections_ — The Studio’s content journal and podcast — documenting people, ideas, and breakthroughs shaping AI-native innovation

- Create a cohesive multi-format content rhythm (articles, short videos, newsletters, digital campaigns) to drive awareness and inbound interest

- Employ AI-powered asset generation (text, video, audio) and automated campaign variants to power high-velocity storytelling across ventures and regions.

- Optimise Utopia’s content for generative AI platforms (LLMs, chat bots, voice assistants) so our brand and venture stories are surfaced in AI-driven discovery paths.

**Events, PR & Ecosystem Engagement**:

- Lead Utopia’s presence at major ecosystem events (Web Summit Qatar, LEAP, regional innovation forums)

- Coordinate Studio-hosted events like founder salons, and ecosystem showcases - supported by event partners and agencies

- Build relationships with journalists, ecosystem enablers, and thought leaders to secure meaningful coverage

- Partner with QDB and other key stakeholders on joint campaigns that highlight the region’s innovation stories

**Platform & Community Marketing**:

- Support communication alignment across Utopia’s pillars — Funds, OS, and Studio

- Ensure a cohesive narrative that connects venture success, platform growth, and regional positioning

- Design scalable community initiatives (newsletters, collaborations, online communities) that keep the ecosystem engaged

- Build and execute a “segment-of-one” content strategy: using AI models to personalise outreach, community prompts and engagement for individual founders, partners, and investors.

- Use automated listening and social intelligence tools (AI-powered) to monitor ecosystem sentiment, detect opportunities/trends, and feed insights into venture positioning.

**Impact & Success Metrics**:

- _ Intersections_ and Utopia storytelling gain recognition across the GCC, Southeast Asia, and Africa

- Studio and platform milestones achieve consistent coverage and inbound traction (EIRs, partners, investors)

- Doha’s positioning as a hub for AI-native founders and innovation is recognized regionally

- PR and media placements reinforce Studio credibility and thought leadership

- Balanced strategic vs. executional delivery through effective use of agency support

- Measurable lift in brand-visibility within AI-driven discovery environments (LLMs, chat engines) and increased inbound founder/partner interest via AI-optimised content.

**Experience & Skills**:

- 5+ years in marketing, brand, communications, or ecosystem roles (preferably in startups, venture, or innovation ecosystems)

- Strong experience shaping a