Head of Brand & Communications

About UTOPIA

UTOPIA is a venture platform operating across emerging markets. We combine capital, technical and regional intelligence, and AI-native execution to co-build and back founders from idea to Series A. Our model spans a venture studio, multiple VC funds, and a shared infrastructure layer. We target high-leverage, under-built sectors across the Global South, designing ventures from scratch, with systems built to scale.

Our mission is to deliver a new model of innovation and performance for emerging markets by integrating capital, infrastructure, and networks around opportunity-rich ecosystems in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and beyond.

About The Role

We’re hiring a Head of Brand & Strategic Communications to own and evolve UTOPIA’s global brand narrative, ecosystem presence, and stakeholder engagement. You will lead brand strategy, content development, communications operations, and platform-wide storytelling that drives visibility, credibility, and traction.

This is both a strategic and hands-on role. You’ll architect the brand function while rolling up your sleeves to execute campaigns, content systems, and stakeholder messaging that move the needle.

You will oversee how we show up across channels, geographies, and entities, including The Utopia Studio, A-typical Ventures, The Radical Fund, and our cross-platform infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Brand Leadership
• Define and drive UTOPIA’s brand strategy across entities, regions, and stakeholder types.
• Maintain a sharp, resonant narrative of the UTOPIA platform (Studio + Funds + UTOPIA as a group)
• Own messaging architecture: boilerplates, brand decks, audience playbooks, FAQs.
• Translate complex concepts (e.g., VC+Studio, AI-native execution, PODs) into clear external narratives.
• Content & Thought Leadership
• Build and oversee a scalable, high-quality content engine across all UTOPIA group, across different channels and platforms (LinkedIn, Substack, Website, Events).
• Develop and oversee content production: venture stories, founder interviews, IP pieces, newsletters.
• Ensure all content drives strategic goals (visibility, pipeline conversion, platform positioning).
• Manage UTOPIA’s social channels: editorial calendar, engagement, and growth.
• Ecosystem Communications & Campaigns
• Lead communications around key convenings and UTOPIA events.
• Manage select press and media relations for milestone announcements and brand campaigns.
• Build narratives that connect with domain experts, founders, LPs, and ecosystem partners.
• Co-design joint campaigns with key partners (e.g., QDB) to elevate regional innovation stories.
• Position UTOPIA leadership as thought leaders and public voices in key arenas.
• Attribution & Strategic Conversion Enablement
• Design brand and content journeys that lead to measurable conversion (e.g., founder/EIR sign-ups, talent applications, LP interest).
• Build attribution logic across funnels to connect communications outputs with business outcomes.
• Brand Measurement & Optimization
• Define and implement a brand measurement framework with leading and lagging indicators.
• Track performance across engagement, share-of-voice, IP output, founder attribution etc.
• Run quarterly brand performance reviews with leadership and adjust accordingly.
• Systems, Processes & Team Leadership
• Build and manage a high-performing, cross-regional communications team (internal + freelance).
• Oversee content systems: calendars, asset libraries, approval flows.
• Design internal comms rhythms to align Studio, Fund, and Platform teams around key narratives.
• Leverage AI tools for high-velocity content creation and cross-channel distribution.
• Optimize UTOPIA’s visibility within AI-native ecosystems (LLMs, voice assistants, chatbots).
• Fellow and Venture Support
• Develop and contribute to comms playbooks and launch strategies for The UTOPIA Studio ventures, as well as support Pre-Seed+ founders through Value Add support
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• UTOPIA’s narrative is widely understood, cited, and referenced across the Global South and beyond.
• Founders, partners, and talent convert through content systems and strategic storytelling.
• Milestones, IP, and new venture launches generate earned media and inbound interest.
• Brand visibility and discoverability increases across AI-driven platforms.
• Executional speed is aligned and balanced with strategic depth.
  
  

Experience & Skills

• At least 6 years in brand, comms, editorial, or ecosystem roles in startups, VC, media, or innovation platforms.
• Strong track record developing integrated brand and communication strategies.
• Skilled storyteller and writer: able to distill abstract concepts into clear, compelling content, and drive social media content and engagement.
• Experience collaborating with designers, agencies, and media partners.
• Familiarity with AI tools for content, design, and analytics.
• Experience with GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and AI-native brand strategies.
• Data-oriented: you use dashboards, lead attribution, and testing to iterate and improve.
• Deep fluency in early-stage venture environments across the Global South.
  
  

Mindset & Values

• Strategic operator: You turn high-impact business strategy into real execution
• Global South venture believer: You get energy from working across Global South and early-stage venture
• AI-native communicator: You love to scale through technology, without sacrificing quality.
• Systems thinker: You want to design for repeatability and scalability.
  
  

What You Can Expect

• Meaningful Impact: Your work directly contributes to launching the next generation of ventures across the Global South.
• Collaborative Culture: High-agency, low-ego environment with cross-functional collaboration.
• Learning & Growth: AI learning budgets, mentorship, and rapid exposure across ecosystems.
• Competitive Rewards: Tax-free compensation, private health, flexible hybrid setup.
• Regional Exposure: Travel to Southeast Asia, Africa, and MENA for founder and partner convenings.
• Early Experimentation: Pilot next-gen comms tools—GEO systems, AIGC, and community AI bots.
  
  

We believe innovation should be inclusive and globally distributed. Our team is built on openness, curiosity, and collaboration — with people from across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia working together to build meaningful ventures.

All roles are based in Doha, Qatar, with flexible hybrid options and global travel opportunities. We welcome talent from every background to join us in shaping the future of AI-native innovation.

Compensation Range: $65K - $90K