Project Manager

CONDUCTR; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative technology and design studio in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Project Manager to lead ambitious entertainment projects across the Middle East. The role involves managing complex design-and-build projects within location-based entertainment, ensuring high-quality delivery while maintaining client relations. Candidates should have proven experience in project management disciplines and a collaborative mindset. This position offers a competitive salary, growth opportunities, and a rewarding work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Opportunity for international projects

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Experience delivering design-and-build projects in themed entertainment or live environments.
• Expert knowledge of project management disciplines such as programme management and stakeholder management.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery across immersive attractions and themed entertainment.
• Develop and manage project programmes including critical path analysis.
• Oversee design coordination, ensuring smooth collaboration with architects and contractors.

Skills

Project management

Commercial awareness

Creative empathy

Team leadership

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Organizational skills

Tools

Gantt charts

RACI matrices

Risk registers

Job description

About the Role

Are you ready to lead some of the most ambitious entertainment projects in the region? As a Project Manager at CONDUCTR, you’ll sit at the centre of our design and deployment activities across the Middle East, taking projects from creative concept through to onsite delivery.

This isn’t a paper-pushing PM role. You’ll be managing complex design-and-build projects in location-based entertainment, including digital experiences, themed attractions, family entertainment centres, competitive socialising venues, and brand activations. You’ll integrate seamlessly into large-scale construction programmes, working with international clients, consultants, and contractors - many of whom are seasoned project managers themselves.

To succeed, you’ll need to bring both commercial rigour and creative empathy: driving critical paths, stage-gate reviews, programme alignment, and deliverables, while ensuring our design intent and guest experience ambitions are never lost in translation.

About Us

CONDUCTR is a leading creative technology and design studio specialising in immersive entertainment and interactive experiences. We work with global operators, IP owners, and brands to create world-first attractions and competitive socialising products. Our team of designers, technologists, media experts, producers, and engineers fuse creative ambition with technical precision to deliver extraordinary guest experiences worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery across immersive attractions, interactive exhibits, social gaming venues, and themed entertainment projects.
• Develop and manage project programmes, including critical path analysis, deliverables tracking, and stage-gate reviews.
• Prepare and deliver client-facing reports, presentations, and updates—demonstrating commercial awareness and control.
• Oversee design coordination and integration with wider construction programmes, ensuring smooth collaboration with architects, consultants, and contractors.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, and QS interactions; track project costs and variations with rigour.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams (internal and external) across design, media, technology, and installation.
• Conduct regular project meetings—internally, with clients, and with contractors—maintaining accountability across all stakeholders.
• Support procurement and contract management for key suppliers, freelancers, and subcontractors.
• Oversee site activities and ensure high-quality, on-time, on-budget delivery.
• Champion CONDUCTR’s standards for guest experience, safety, and technical excellence.

You should have

• Proven experience delivering design-and-build projects in at least one of: themed entertainment, attractions, AV/technology integration, or live/immersive environments.
• Expert knowledge of project management disciplines: programme management, risk registers, deliverables control, commercial oversight, reporting, and stakeholder management.
• Ability to hold your own in discussions with senior client PMs, QSs, and contractors.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to juggle multiple projects at once.
• Experience producing clear documentation: Gantt charts, RACI matrices, risk registers, client reports.
• Confidence in leading meetings, negotiating, and addressing challenges directly with clients and partners.
• A sharp eye for detail and a commitment to quality, schedule, and budget discipline.
• Comfortable working across different project methodologies (Agile/Waterfall/hybrid).
• Willingness to travel regionally and internationally for client meetings and onsite delivery.
• A collaborative mindset, capable of integrating creative, technical, and operational teams.

It would be great if you have

• Experience in themed entertainment, cruise, hospitality, or immersive experiences.
• Familiarity with large-scale construction environments in the GCC region.
• Experience in business development support and growing new regional business units.
• Interest in cutting-edge media, interactive technology, or experiential design.

What We Offer

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• The opportunity to deliver landmark projects across the GCC and internationally.
• A chance to grow a regional office for one of the UK’s fastest-growing creative companies.
• A collaborative, ambitious, and supportive environment that values creativity and precision in equal measure.

What it's like working at CONDUCTR

CONDUCTR is proud to be recognised as a Great Place to Work, officially certified for our outstanding workplace culture and employee satisfaction. This recognition places us among the best workplaces. We’re also honoured to be placed on Best Workplaces lists for: Wellbeing 2025, Development 2025, and Women 2025, ranking highly among the top companies for employee support, growth and career development - and we’re excited to get started in the UAE!

On top of that, we’re one of the fastest growing companies - recently ranked 5th in the UK - creating exciting opportunities for our team to grow as fast as the business.

Our 5 core values articulate this best, and we are looking for people who can demonstrate them:

• We go above and #beyond
• We work as a #team & make it fun
• We creatively #kick-ass
• We #do it efficiently, on time & on budget
• We deliver work that makes us #proud

Does this sound like the job for you?

Apply via this post with your CV and share your linked in profile. If you sound like you are a good fit, we will reach out for an initial, informal chat within 2 weeks of your application.