Principal Project Manager

analogai; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Analog seeks a highly experienced Principal Project Manager to lead and orchestrate complex delivery programs, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and critical paths align with the PMO.

You will manage parallel delivery streams, drive governance forums, mitigate risks, and coordinate with clients and leadership to keep delivery momentum in a fast-paced, on-site Abu Dhabi environment.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience as a senior or principal project manager on large, complex delivery programs.
• Strong command of critical path planning, dependency management, and RAID discipline.
• Direct experience managing client-side dependencies on programs with multiple parallel workstreams.
• Demonstrated comfort working closely with a PMO, and a structured approach to governance and reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with clients, delivery teams, and leadership.
• A calm, organized, and methodical approach, particularly under pressure.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Planning and Delivery: Own the planning of milestones, dependencies, and critical path in conjunction with the PMO.
• Risk and Dependency Management: Maintain RAID logs, ensuring risks and dependencies are visible and actively managed.
• Stream Alignment: Ensure parallel delivery streams stay synchronized with the plan and resolve conflicts.
• Reporting and Governance: Conduct regular program reporting and governance forums with timely status updates.
• Client and Stakeholder Management: Proactively manage client-side dependencies and drive decisions to maintain momentum.
• Collaboration: Build strong relationships with client counterparts to facilitate issue resolution.
• Financial and Scope Alignment: Coordinate with program finance controllers and principal product managers to align plan, budget, and scope.
• Risk Escalation: Escalate risks early, presenting options and solutions rather than problems.

Skills

Senior/Principal Project Manager

Planning and critical path management

RAID risk/issue management

Stakeholder management

PMO collaboration

Client-side dependency management

Job description

Principal Project Manager - Analog

Analog is seeking a highly experienced Principal Project Manager to lead and orchestrate complex delivery programs. This role is critical in ensuring the seamless execution of milestones, dependencies, and critical paths, working in close collaboration with the PMO. You will be instrumental in maintaining the momentum of parallel delivery streams and proactively identifying and mitigating risks before they impact project timelines.

What You’ll Do

• Planning and Delivery: Own the planning of milestones, dependencies, and critical path in conjunction with the PMO.
• Risk and Dependency Management: Maintain robust RAID logs, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are visible and actively managed.
• Stream Alignment: Ensure parallel delivery streams remain synchronized with the overall plan, resolving any conflicts in priority or resources.
• Reporting and Governance: Conduct regular program reporting and governance forums, providing clear, honest, and timely status updates.
• Client and Stakeholder Management: Proactively manage client-side dependencies, driving necessary decisions and inputs to maintain delivery momentum.
• Collaboration: Build strong, collaborative relationships with client counterparts to facilitate swift and direct issue resolution.
• Financial and Scope Alignment: Coordinate closely with program finance controllers and principal product managers to ensure alignment across plan, budget, and scope.
• Risk Escalation: Escalate risks and blockers early, presenting clear options and solutions rather than just problems.

What You’ll Bring

• Substantial experience as a senior or principal project manager on large, complex delivery programs.
• Strong command of critical path planning, dependency management, and RAID discipline.
• Direct experience managing client-side dependencies on programs with multiple parallel workstreams.
• Demonstrated comfort working closely with a PMO, and a structured approach to governance and reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with clients, delivery teams, and leadership.
• A calm, organized, and methodical approach, particularly under pressure.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.

About Analog

Analog builds Hive, a digital twin platform that connects physical environments to AI and sensors. Our innovative solution empowers defense and government customers to monitor, simulate, train, and command across real-world estates and synthetic environments. We are a fast-paced, mission-driven team tackling critical challenges at the intersection of national digital transformation, modern warfare, and advanced technology. Our work is impactful, and we operate with the urgency that reflects its importance.

Why You Should Join Us

• Be part of a mission-driven organization working on cutting-edge technology.
• Contribute to projects that have a significant impact on national security and digital transformation.
• Work within a dynamic and fast-moving team environment.
• Collaborate with talented professionals at the forefront of AI, sensors, and digital twin technology.
• Opportunity to shape and drive complex, high-stakes delivery programs.

Logistics

• Department: Program Management / PMO
• Location: Abu Dhabi
• Work Modality: Full-time, On-site
• Reporting Structure: Close collaboration with PMO and delivery leadership.
• Travel: As required by program needs.
• Compensation: Competitive salary and benefits package.