diff --git a/src/fondant/component/data_io.py b/src/fondant/component/data_io.py
index 5d7f442e..bbec6529 100644
--- a/src/fondant/component/data_io.py
+++ b/src/fondant/component/data_io.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 import dask.dataframe as dd
 import dask.distributed
+import fsspec
 import pyarrow as pa
 from dask.diagnostics import ProgressBar
 from dask.distributed import as_completed
@@ -205,6 +206,12 @@ def _write_dataframe(self, dataframe: dd.DataFrame) -> dd.core.Scalar:
             f"{self.manifest.run_id}/{self.operation_spec.component_name}"
         )
 
+        # Create directory the dataframe will be written to, since this is not handled by Pandas
+        # `to_parquet` method.
+        protocol = fsspec.utils.get_protocol(location)
+        fs = fsspec.get_filesystem_class(protocol)
+        fs().makedirs(location)
+
         schema = {
             field.name: field.type.value
             for field in self.operation_spec.produces_to_dataset.values()