Creative Investment Partner - Film Funds

About Parrot Analytics

Parrot Analytics is the global authority on media and entertainment intelligence, providing the strategic decision support that the world’s leading studios, producers, streamers, investors, and government bodies rely on to de-risk content investment and maximize returns.

Trusted across the full media economy — from studios and streaming platforms to film funds, sports leagues, and government bodies — Parrot Analytics informs capital allocation, acquisitions, programming strategy, and IP valuation at the highest levels of the industry.

By measuring the demand and preferences of more than 2 billion audiences worldwide, Parrot Analytics’ AI platform quantifies the value of content, talent, franchises, and sports rights — enabling partners to forecast revenue, assess risk, optimize portfolio strategy, and drive more predictable success.
The best stories deserve to reach the world. You'll help decide which ones get the chance.

About the Role

At Parrot Analytics, we own the world’s largest audience behaviour dataset. We help film funds, studios, streamers and creators decide what to greenlight, what not to and where the future of entertainment is headed.

As our Creative Investment Partner, you will help Film Funds to identify, evaluate, and shape film and television projects. The role combines strong creative judgement with market awareness, helping ensure that funded projects demonstrate both cultural authenticity and meaningful audience potential.

We are looking for someone with deep familiarity with Arabic-language storytelling and the regional film ecosystem, alongside a sophisticated understanding of how projects travel internationally across festivals, theatrical markets, and streaming platforms.

This is a remote role, ideally based in the Middle East or North Africa.

What You Will Champion

As a Creative Investment Partner, you will work with Parrot Analytics and partner film funds to assess projects and help shape investment decisions.

• Concept Assessment: you will evaluate scripts, treatments, and development materials submitted to partner funds and provide clear written assessments that inform greenlight and development decisions.
• Project Evaluation: Working alongside Parrot Analytics’ global data and insights teams, the Creative Investment Partner will evaluate submitted projects and provide strategic recommendations on which stories should move forward into development or production investment.
• Inclusion of Data: Your creative judgement will be complemented by Parrot Analytics’ global audience demand data and market intelligence, providing insight into how projects may resonate with audiences across regions and platforms.
• Content Portfolio Creation: You will help identify projects with exceptional creative and cultural potential and elevate them for investment committee consideration. You will also contribute to shaping a balanced and strategically positioned slate, ensuring that supported projects combine distinctive storytelling with strong audience appeal.
• Editorial: Where appropriate, you may also provide editorial insight and development feedback to help strengthen promising projects as they move through the funding process.
• Arabic Domain Development: The role also involves maintaining a strong awareness of trends in Arabic-language cinema, emerging filmmakers, regional production activity, and international festival and distribution landscapes.

Requirements

We are looking for candidates with strong creative taste, cultural literacy, and development judgement.

You may come from backgrounds such as:

• Film or television development executive
• Script editor or story consultant
• Producer with significant development experience
• Film fund or commissioning body evaluator
• Festival programmer focused on Arab or international cinema

Strong candidates will have:

• Professional experience in film or television development, production, or script evaluation
• Deep familiarity with Arabic-language cinema and regional storytelling
• Strong awareness of international film markets, festivals, and distribution pathways
• The ability to evaluate scripts with both creative sensitivity and strategic perspective
• Fluency in Arabic and English
• Excellent written communication and analytical skills

Benefits

• Be Part of a Founding Team: Join a pivotal, early team member group supporting our newly established HQ in Qatar, with the opportunity to help shape its direction and impact from the ground up.
• Global & Distributed by Design: Work as part of a globally distributed team, collaborating across timezones while contributing to high-impact, international projects.
• Flexible Ways of Working: Operate in a flexible environment that supports autonomy while enabling seamless collaboration across teams and regions.
• Collaborative & Transparent Culture: Be part of a team that values openness, knowledge-sharing, and strong cross-functional collaboration.
• Purpose-Driven Work: Join a team of problem solvers who care deeply about delivering meaningful insights and real value to clients.
• Stay Connected Globally: Take part in monthly virtual all-hands sessions to celebrate wins, share updates, and stay aligned on company goals and strategy.

Why This Role Is Different

At Parrot Analytics, we combine creative judgement with the world’s most advanced audience intelligence system for film and television.Our global dataset tracks audience demand across more than 2 billion people worldwide, allowing us to understand how stories, genres, and talent resonate across markets.

As a Creative Investment Partner, you will work at the intersection of creative storytelling and empirical audience insight, helping partners make better decisions about which projects to develop and finance.

This role offers the opportunity to help shape projects that reflect the richness of Arabic storytelling while positioning them for global audiences. This person will also work with Funds to optimise their film portfolios based on their defined criteria.