Project Manager

Sunrise Digital Tech; Thane; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (Mumbai/Thane)

Direct access to leadership and key

Growth that you drive

Job summary

Axioned is seeking a Project Manager to optimize delivery and team operations across a portfolio of client engagements, including website retainers and CMS/CRM work. You will shape how the PM team plans, communicates, and delivers, coaching through real work rather than workshops.

You’ll work directly with delivery teams, engineers, QA, and design in a flat structure, with a focus on ownership, effective collaboration, and continuous improvement from day one.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years in project management within digital services, agencies, or web/software product companies.
• You’ve managed retainer-based client work and led a small team.
• You act on issues proactively and improve how a team operates.
• You welcome direct feedback and stay resilient under blunt critique.
• You ask good questions, learn fast, and stay curious about how things work technically and commercially.
• You understand web tech at a functional level (CMS platforms, front-end, CI/CD, hosting).

Responsibilities

• Run projects: manage a portfolio of client engagements (website retainers, CMS/CRM integrations, ongoing digital work).
• Raise the bar on the PM team by bringing discipline and consistency to planning and delivery.
• Serve as a bridge between delivery engineers and project/people dimensions.
• Work directly with delivery teams; collaborate with engineers, QA, and design in a flat team.

Skills

Project management

Client management

Team leadership

Operational discipline

Technical fluency

Communication

Tools

WordPress

Headless CMS

CI/CD basics

Hosting concepts

Job description

Role: Project Manager

This role is not for everyone. Read this carefully.

We’re a ~35-person digital services company. We build, run, and extend web platforms for marketing teams, agencies, and product companies. We’re flat. We’re direct. We don’t do politics, we don’t do hand-holding, and we don’t orchestrate people’s careers top-down.

We need a Project Manager not as a process theorist, but as someone who makes project delivery and team operations measurably better, every week.

If you want a role where you manage up and delegate down, this isn’t it. If you want clear swim lanes and someone telling you what to focus on each morning, this isn’t it. If you need a month of \"settling in\" before you have opinions, this isn’t it.

If you see broken things and fix them before being asked keep reading.

What you'll actually do

Run projects. You’ll directly manage a portfolio of client engagements primarily website retainers, CMS/CRM integrations, and ongoing digital platform work for marketing teams and agencies. This includes our \"Run\" work: continuous improvement, stability, client confidence, and operational excellence. Run is where trust is built and where long-term client relationships live. You need to understand that and find real satisfaction in it.

Raise the bar on the PM team. Your job is to bring discipline, rigor, and consistency to how they plan, communicate, and deliver. Not by writing process documents by modelling the standard and holding people to it. You coach through real work, not workshops.

Be a bridge. Our senior engineers are deep in client delivery. They’re strong technically but not inclined toward people and process management. You’ll need to work with them effectively understanding enough about the tech to earn credibility, while owning the project and people dimensions they don’t want to.

Work directly with delivery teams. We don’t have a separate technical lead per project who does the dirty work of getting things done through dev. This is a flat team with direct communication and collaboration. You’ll coordinate directly with engineers, QA, and design. This is not a hands-off, delegate-and-track job you’re in the work, not above it.

What we need from you

• Experience: 4-8 years in project management within digital services, agencies, or web/software product companies. You’ve managed retainer-based client work (not just fixed‑scope projects). You’ve managed other PMs or led a small team - formally or informally.
• Operational instinct: You don’t wait for process to tell you what to do. You see a missed status update, a PM who’s under water, a client losing confidence - and you act. You’ve improved how a team operates, not just how a project was delivered.
• Emotional durability: We give direct feedback. Sometimes bluntly. You need to take it without shutting down, give it without being cruel, and move on without resentment. If you’ve been told you’re \"too sensitive\" in past roles, or if you need consensus before acting, this environment will be hard for you. We say this with respect, not judgment.
• Curiosity over credentials: We care less about PMP/CSM certifications and more about whether you ask good questions, learn fast, and stay curious about how things work — technically, operationally, commercially. If your instinct is \"that’s not my job\", you won’t thrive here.
• Self-direction: You set your own goals. You seek your own feedback. You identify your own gaps. We’ll support you, but we won’t chase you. We call this being a \"manager of one.\"
• Domain fit: You understand web technologies at a functional level - CMS platforms (WordPress, headless CMS), front‑end frameworks, CI/CD basics, hosting/infrastructure concepts. You don’t need to code, but you need to follow a technical conversation and know when something doesn’t add up.

What's true about Axioned

• We prioritize quality over speed, and speed over scope.
• We use first principles to debate ideas, test assumptions, and make decisions. We seek truth by putting data above opinions.
• We assume good intent and give tactical feedback to help each other get better. We hold no ego - when our customers win, we all win.
• We go to extraordinary lengths to distinguish ourselves through world‑class work.

What we offer

• Hybrid work (Mumbai/Thane)
• A team that will challenge you and respect you in equal measure
• Real ownership - not the performative kind
• Direct access to leadership and clients from day one
• Growth that you drive, with support when you need it