Summary
Qatar Airways is hiring an IFEC Content Scheduling Specialist in Doha for its Product Development and Design division. The role manages content schedules across Video-on-Demand libraries, Live TV channels, and inflight entertainment cycles, while curating playlists and themed collections for different audiences. It works with content partners, operational teams, and technology providers to support timely content delivery and passenger engagement. The specialist also enforces content licensing, territory restrictions, and regulatory requirements.
The posting
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At Qatar Airways, we are redefining the passenger experience through innovation, creativity, and world-class digital products. Within our Product Development and Design (PDD) division, we create immersive and engaging experiences that elevate every journey.
Join our IFEC (In-Flight Entertainment & Connectivity) team and help shape the future of onboard visual experience.
About the role
This role plays a key part in shaping the onboard entertainment experience for millions of Qatar Airways passengers worldwide. It leads the curation, scheduling, and day‑to‑day operational management of content across inflight entertainment (IFE), Live TV, Video‑on‑Demand (VOD), and related digital platforms.
By ensuring content libraries are accurately programmed, refreshed, and delivered in line with aircraft content cycles and audience insights, the role brings engaging, culturally diverse stories to life at 35,000 feet. Working closely with global content partners, internal operational teams, and technology providers, the position helps create a world‑class entertainment offering that reflects Qatar Airways’ premium brand promise and elevates the passenger journey at every touchpoint.
As part of your role, your responsibilities will be inclusive of, but are not limited to the following:
- Ensure seamless availability of inflight entertainment content, measured by on-time deployment and schedule accuracy, by building and managing content schedules across VOD libraries, Live TV channels, and IFE entertainment cycles.
- Increase passenger engagement across audience segments, measured by content consumption trends, by curating playlists and programming across genres, regions, and demographics including movies, TV series, kids, sports, and regional content.
- Improve content discoverability and engagement, measured by browse-to-play and completion rates, by curating themed collections, featured playlists, and bundled content experiences.
- Support editorial and thematic storytelling, measured by alignment with programming themes, by creating curated content bundles connected to seasonal or narrative-based experiences.
- Ensure licensing and regulatory compliance, measured by zero compliance breaches, by enforcing territory restrictions, content rights limitations, and regulatory requirements.
Be part of an extraordinary story
Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future and build the life you want while being part of an international community.
Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.
Together, everything is possible.