Senior Project Manager

Horizontal Digital; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizontal Digital is a Dubai-based digital consultancy focused on delivering high-quality digital transformations for ambitious clients. We lead full lifecycle projects using agile methodologies and value strong client partnerships, robust planning, and cross-functional collaboration to achieve measurable outcomes.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of client-facing digital project management, agency experience, and familiarity with Sitecore or Salesforce.

Qualifications

• 5+ years client-facing digital project management experience with agile.
• 2+ years agency/consultancy; 5 years preferred.
• 2+ years managing large-scale website projects across discovery, UX, design, development, QA and deployments.
• Prior exposure to Sitecore and Salesforce.
• Experience with Jira/Confluence preferred.
• Ability to earn SCRUM certification within 90 days.
• Arabic language is useful but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide agile project management oversight for multiple projects.
• Define project objectives, scope, timeline and level of effort.
• Develop project strategies and plans and identify methods and tools.
• Keep projects on track and on budget while resolving client issues.
• Monitor progress and budget against plan.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide technical advice and resolve problems.
• Manage scope by coordinating changes from original specs.
• Ensure quality through planning, execution, QA and QC.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Time management

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Sitecore

Salesforce

Job description

Description

At Horizontal Digital we hold ourselves to one key belief: You’re only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps, portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for ambitious companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. We make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy, data, design and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We use these values to fuel superior results:

Lock Arms

We forge relationships that make our impact 1000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good.

Show Hustle

We’re not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead we anticipate opportunities, collectively roll up our sleeves and find ways to execute the exceptional.

Embrace change

From new technologies to workplace philosophies we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate what’s next.

Elevate empathy

We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

Never settle

We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas.

But enough about us. Let’s talk about you.

We are looking for a Digital Project Manager who will lead full‑lifecycle digital transformation projects from inception to implementation using agile methodologies. Ideal candidates will have experience with Sitecore or Salesforce project management.

What you’ll do:

• Provide agile project management oversight for multiple projects.
• Define project objectives, scope, estimate timeline and level of effort.
• Develop project strategies and plans and identify the methods and tools required for the project.
• Keep projects on track and on budget while resolving issues with clients.
• Monitor progress and budget against plan.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.
• Manage scope by coordinating and responding to requests for changes from original specifications.
• Ensure quality through planning, execution, quality assurance and quality control techniques.
• Identify, analyze and mitigate risks to maximize the results and minimize the consequences.
• Work closely with the end users, business technologists and other stakeholders to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs, then develop system requirements and design specifications; direct efforts to refine conceptual systems design requirements into the technical design.
• Provide solutions leadership and motivation to project team members.

Who you are:

• You get it done. Grit is your middle name. You are organized, have excellent time‑management skills, and have a spidey sense for issues before they arise. While doing all of that you maintain a positive attitude and deliver high‑quality work for clients.
• You are a natural leader. You are self‑motivated with a high degree of initiative and follow‑through. Mentoring others is something you do out of habit. You are eager to succeed and understand that putting in the work is the way to get where you want to be.
• You’re an outstanding communicator. You are able to convey information to all key stakeholders in both written and verbal formats. Preparing and delivering presentations is second nature.
• You have experience with digital and Salesforce project management.

What you bring:

• A minimum of 5 years client‑facing digital project management experience, preferably using agile methodologies.
• A minimum of 2 years agency/consultancy experience. 5 years preferred.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience managing large‑scale website projects that include discovery, strategy, user experience, creative design, front‑end development, website development, QA, deployments and maintenance.
• Prior exposure to digital marketing solutions such as Sitecore and Salesforce.
• Experience with Jira/Confluence preferred.
• Ability to earn SCRUM certification within 90 days.
• Arabic language is useful but not essential.

The above description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Experience

Senior IC