Senior Manager Content Scheduling & Planning

Team: Content & Fan Marketing

Activity: Full-time

Role grade: Senior Manager (7)

Direct reports: 0

Indirect reports: 0

Reporting to: Director Content & Fan Marketing

Role location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Job Purpose: As the Senior Manager Content Scheduling & Planning, you will lead the coordination of our global content roadmap. This role is pivotal in bringing structure and synergy to our storytelling efforts across social, digital, editorial, and owned channels. If you're a master of timelines, an expert at juggling multiple teams and platforms, and passionate about esports content, this is your chance to make an impact at the largest competitive gaming event in the world.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the master content roadmap for all non-live content across EWC channels, ensuring full visibility of deliverables, timelines, and dependencies.

• Lead development of the integrated content calendar across social, editorial, digital, and owned platforms, aligned with marketing campaigns, tournament milestones, and partner obligations.

• Coordinate planning across internal teams and external agencies, unifying content output under one clear schedule and identifying opportunities to batch-produce content across departments.

• Seek production synergies across content needs (e.g., social, editorial, partner, promotional), consolidating shoots and creation workflows to maximize output and reduce duplication.

• Manage cross-functional alignment on content priorities.

• Work with distribution and media partners to align on content needs, handoff dates, and publishing cadence.

• Collaborate with the CMS and Media Engine teams to streamline asset delivery, version control, and content tagging workflows.

• Maintain and evolve centralized trackers, calendars, and toolkits to ensure planning transparency across global teams.

• Coordinate on-site content schedules and resources during live events to ensure smooth execution.

• Monitor content pipeline and delivery risks, troubleshooting blockers to keep timelines on track.

• Drive process improvements to scale content scheduling for a high-volume, multi-language, multi-stakeholder ecosystem.

Education and Experience

• 7+ years of experience in content planning, production operations, or marketing project management—preferably within the esports, gaming, entertainment, or sports industries

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven success in building and managing complex editorial or campaign calendars across multiple teams and platforms.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a track record of aligning stakeholders across departments and regions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Fluent Arabic is a plus.

• Strong project management skills with proficiency in tools like Monday.com, Airtable, Asana, Trello, or similar content ops platforms

• Strategic mindset with the ability to prioritize and problem-solve in a fast-paced, evolving environment

• Experience coordinating with international teams and working across time zones

• Familiarity with CMS systems, asset management platforms, and media workflows is a strong plus

• Passion for esports and gaming culture is highly preferred

Benefits

• Relocation support

• Transportation allowance

• Competitive compensation

• Housing allowance

• VIP medical insurance

• Opportunity to work on a new exciting project with a group of passionate professionals. You will get the freedom to excel and make a real impact

Diversity disclaimer

Our mission is to build a diverse organization where our members, regardless of background or identity, have a sense of belonging. We genuinely believe that thanks to creating a collaborative environment where different perspectives are valued, we can achieve more. Together, we want to reshape the boundaries of what is achievable in the esports domain.