Marketing Operations Manager

We're Hiring: Operations & Marketing Manager Financial Planner Life (Dubai)

Join an established start-up with serious momentum. Be the first hire. Build the machine that takes us global.

I'm Sam Oakes, founder of Financial Planner Life, the careers-based podcast that's inspiring thousands to join the financial planning profession and helping firms attract the talent they need to grow.

Now I need someone by my side. A highly organised, operationally brilliant, marketing-savvy person who can help me scale fast.

This is a rare opportunity to join a creative business that's already proven, profitable, and growing but still small enough that you'll shape how everything runs.

If you're the kind of person who gets energy from systems, process, content, and bringing ideas to life keep reading.

About Financial Planner Life

We're two connected brands under one roof:

1. Financial Planner Life our careers-based podcast created to help close the advice gap in the UK. With over 240 episodes, 300,000+ downloads, and a following of 50,000+ financial services professionals, it's become the go-to platform for career stories in financial planning.
2. Financial Planner Life Productions our creative agency arm. We work with respected brands like the Personal Finance Society, St. James's Place, Foster Denovo, Hoxton Wealth, Legal & General, and others. We produce docu-style films, branded content, video campaigns, and recruitment-focused podcast series.

Across the board, we generate over 6 million impressions a year and we're just getting started.

The Role: Operations & Marketing Manager

This is a foundational hire. You'll work alongside me to help run the business day-to-day and scale it to the next level.

You'll be responsible for:

Operations

• Managing client delivery: booking guests, briefing edits, ensuring deadlines are hit
• Building and documenting processes
• Implementing systems (Go High Level, CRM, automation, LinkedIn outreach)
• Running project workflows from concept to delivery

Marketing

• Scheduling and posting across social channels
• Setting up newsletters and email funnels
• Building campaign workflows for lead generation and coaching offers
• Supporting paid ad setup (LinkedIn/Meta a bonus)

Content Distribution

• Helping manage and grow our YouTube channel (SEO, scheduling, analytics)
• Coordinating podcast release schedules
• Creating automation to repurpose and push content

You don't need to do everything on day one and you're not expected to do it alone either.

What matters is your ability to execute ideas and build smart, scalable systems. You should be excited about growing a team in-house and freelance around the operations you create.

I'm looking for a builder. Someone who can take a concept and turn it into a workflow, a system, a result. Someone who can lead with process but isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in.

You'll thrive in this role if you:

• Are deeply organised you love creating structure and can see where things need tightening
• Have experience building or managing systems, tools, and automation workflows
• Understand marketing fundamentals (and are excited by data, funnels, content, and conversion)
• Have a decent knowledge of YouTube or content strategy
• Like working directly with the founder and being trusted to run things independently
• Are based in Dubai (or ready to relocate) and want to work in person

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience working in a creative agency, podcast business, or content-led startup
• Knowledge of paid advertising (Meta/LinkedIn/YouTube)
• Built marketing funnels, used tools like Zapier, Go High Level, or similar

What you'll get:

• A chance to build the machine inside a growing content business
• Mentorship and creative freedom from a founder who loves ideas and respects structure
• The ability to shape your role as we scale
• Exposure to the top firms in financial planning

Ready to apply

Send me a short video (or voice note) telling me why this excites you. Attach your CV and examples of relevant experience systems you've built, content you've managed, funnels you've launched, or campaigns you've helped run.

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Subject: Operations & Marketing Manager Your Name

Let's build something brilliant together.