Project Manager - Product Implementation
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About the Role
AppliedAI, a pioneering AI company in Abu Dhabi, seeks a Project Manager to lead the delivery of Opus AI platform deployments for clients in regulated industries. The role involves managing the full project lifecycle, client and stakeholder management, risk control, and internal collaboration.
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Responsibilities
- Own full delivery lifecycle for assigned projects: scoping, planning, execution, testing, deployment, and post go live stabilisation
- Build and maintain detailed project plans, RAID logs, daily and weekly reporting
- Establish governance cadence (stand ups, steering committees, sprint reviews)
- Coordinate cross functional teams to ensure dependencies are managed and deliverables are met
- Track project health through clear KPIs and milestones, escalating early when needed
- Act as the primary day to day contact for client project teams
- Coordinate client discovery sessions with key stakeholder groups to uncover and define new strategic product use cases
- Actively partner with clients post deployment to identify additional product value and strategic use cases
- Translate requirements into actionable plans and ensure alignment across functions
- Manage expectations, budgets, quality, scope changes, decisions, and approvals with clarity and consistency
- Support UAT, training, and enablement activities for client stakeholders
- Proactively identify risks and blockers, driving resolution and mitigation plans
Requirements
- 4–7 years of experience in project management, delivery, consulting, or programme coordination
- Proven ability to manage multiple complex IT transformation projects across cross functional teams
- Strong organisational and execution skills, able to bring structure to ambiguity
- Experience with SaaS, technology, AI, data, or process automation projects
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities, including strong presentation skills
- Proficiency in delivery tools (Jira, Monday, Asana, Confluence, Gantt tools, etc.)
- Experience running project governance: stand ups, sprint cycles, retros, steering committees
- Experience delivering enterprise implementations or workflow automation (nice to have)
- Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies (nice to have)
- Background in consulting, customer success, or technical delivery (nice to have)
- Ability to read basic technical documentation or understand API/SaaS integrations (nice to have)
- Certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, ScrumMaster) are an advantage (nice to have)
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Position Overview
- In this customer facing role you’ll define and lead strategic initiatives with multi variable challenges and significant business impact.
- In this customer facing role you’ll execute SOW, proactively partner with clients to define success, build alignment across internal departments, define project standards and methodologies, identify risks and proactively manage expectations of senior stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of
Project Delivery & Execution
- Own full delivery lifecycle for assigned projects: scoping, planning, execution, testing, deployment, and post go live stabilisation.
- Build and maintain detailed project plans, RAID logs, daily and weekly reporting.
- Establish governance cadence (stand ups, steering committees, sprint reviews).
- Coordinate cross functional teams to ensure dependencies are managed and deliverables are met.
- Track project health through clear KPIs and milestones, escalating early when needed.
Client & Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary day to day contact for client project teams.
- Coordinate client discovery sessions with key stakeholder groups to uncover and define new strategic product use cases.
- Actively partner with clients post deployment to identify additional product value and strategic use cases.
- Translate requirements into actionable plans and ensure alignment across functions.
- Manage expectations, budgets, quality, scope changes, decisions, and approvals with clarity and consistency.
- Support UAT, training, and enablement activities for client stakeholders.
Risk, Scope, and Quality Control
- Proactively identify risks and blockers, driving resolution and mitigation plans.
- Ensure project documentation is clear, consistent, and up to date at all times.
- Monitor scope creep and guide stakeholders through structured change control.
- Maintain delivery quality standards and ensure alignment with company methodologies.
Internal Collaboration & Delivery Maturity
- Partner with Product and Engineering to streamline delivery workflows and handovers.
- Share lessons learned, contribute to playbooks, and support operational improvements.
- Mentor Project Coordinators or analysts where required.
- Contribute to resource planning and internal delivery capacity forecasting.
Required Experience & Skills
- 4–7 years of experience in project management, delivery, consulting, or programme coordination.
- Proven ability to manage multiple complex IT transformation projects across cross functional teams.
- Strong organisational and execution skills, able to bring structure to ambiguity.
- Experience with SaaS, technology, AI, data, or process automation projects.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities, including strong presentation skills.
- Proficiency in delivery tools (Jira, Monday, Asana, Confluence, Gantt tools, etc.).
- Experience running project governance: stand ups, sprint cycles, retros, steering committees.
Nice to Have
- Experience delivering enterprise implementations or workflow automation.
- Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Background in consulting, customer success, or technical delivery.
- Ability to read basic technical documentation or understand API/SaaS integrations.
- Certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, ScrumMaster) are an advantage, not a requirement.
Attributes & Behaviours
- Confident and professional client facing presence; adept at managing senior stakeholders and driving decision making.
- Operates autonomously with minimal direction; escalates only when necessary.
- Strong judgement and ability to prioritise across competing demands.
- Highly structured with excellent attention to detail.
- Confident in managing senior stakeholders and driving decision making.
- Brings energy, ownership, and reliability to fast paced, scaling environments.
- Demonstrates cross functional empathy and works well with Product, Tech, and Clients.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with a leading AI technology company.
- Collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Growing, entrepreneurial and forward thinking culture.
- Career growth and professional development opportunities.
- Exposure to a thriving ecosystem working from our Abu Dhabi HQ.
- 21 days of paid annual leave.
- Company provided health insurance.
- Visa sponsorship for international candidates.
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