Project Manager

Pineapple Design; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Pineapple is a holistic digital experience agency seeking a proactive Project Manager to oversee client-facing design projects, align stakeholders, and drive outcomes.

You will partner with the Design Director, briefing teams, applying agile or hybrid methods, and safeguarding schedules, budgets, and quality across multiple initiatives.

The role emphasizes strong communication, risk management, and a willingness to experiment with AI tools and automation to streamline workflows.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years experience in project management with client-facing role.
• Experience in a design agency or product company preferred.
• Strong desire to manage projects and people.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder negotiation.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple client-facing projects in a lean studio.
• Work with the Design Director on project decisions.
• Brief team and use agile or hybrid methodologies.
• Ensure on-time, in-budget delivery of projects.
• Identify risks and navigate project teams.
• Maintain weekly/monthly status reports.
• Coordinate freelancers and content creation.
• Explore AI, automation, and agents to improve workflows.
• Apply AI-driven workflows where relevant.
• Support Pineapple's strategic goals.

Skills

Project management

Client-facing

Team leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Tools

AI tools

AI agents

Job description

Pineapple is a holistic digital experience agency that is trying to change the way people access and use digital products. Pineapple works with high-growth companies across the globe to help them radically innovate, revisualize and scale digital products.

Our holistic approach is a crafted process that combines every important step in creating meaningful product designs viz. Research (UXR), Product design (UX/UI), UX Writing, Illustrations (2D, 3D) and Motion design.

What you'll do:

• Being in a lean UX/UI studio environment, you will manage many client-facing projects, understanding client needs and requirements.
• You will be working directly with the Design Director in decision-making for different projects that you would be managing.
• You will be briefing your team about the requirement, and using agile or hybrid project management methodologies to handle the teams and delegate tasks.
• You will be responsible for the timely and in-budget delivery of projects.
• You will be responsible for identifying internal and external risks and navigating your team through them.
• You will be constantly communicating and solving conflicts arising within the team and with stakeholders.
• You will be maintaining a Weekly/Monthly Project Status Report.
• Briefing and taking quotes from any freelancers appointed.
• Managing photo and video shoots, 3d and 2d illustration content creation.
• You'll actively explore and use AI, automation, and agent-based tools to make project workflows more efficient, repeatable, and scalable.
• You'll identify opportunities to bring AI and automation into the way projects are researched, planned, managed, and delivered, and be comfortable experimenting with and building AI-driven workflows or agents where relevant.
• You'll do everything in your capacity to meet the project’s goals and keep the project team on track to deliver on those goals. Your number one priority still remains to safeguard and achieve the strategic goals of Pineapple.
• You'll get the opportunity to work on multiple internal and external projects where you get to guide the course of the studio towards its future goals.

Job Requirements:

• At least 2-4 years of experience with a strong understanding of managing projects and being client-facing.
• Preferably a background with a design agency or a product company.
• Truly in love with managing projects and people.
• Excited about achieving project goals within timelines and budgets.
• Speak the right language to manage client relationships.
• Skilled at articulating ideas, problems, and solutions in a team environment.
• Strong communication, negotiation, persuasion, and reasoning skills.
• Have a deep understanding of website/eCommerce/app design, usability, architecture, frontend, backend, and functionality.
• Hands-on familiarity with AI tools, automation, and AI agents, with the ability to identify practical ways to apply them to everyday work.
• Curious about emerging AI capabilities and willing to experiment with new tools and workflows to improve how work gets done.