Visionary Tech Services
Junior Project Manager
Visionary Tech ServicesUnited Arab Emirates1 day ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyProject Management
Junior Project Manager to support end-to-end delivery of AI, data, and digital projects at VTS. Partners with tech leads, product owners, and client stakeholders to keep scope, schedule, and risks under control while ensuring clear communication and strong execution.

  • Familiar with Agile and hybrid delivery in consulting or product environments
  • Comfortable translating business goals into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
  • Exposure to data and ML workflows, cloud platforms, and modern web delivery
  • Able to coordinate multi‑disciplinary squads across engineering, data, and design

Requirements

Delivery operations

  • Run standups, sprint planning, reviews, and retros. Maintain sprint health and cadence
  • Own backlog hygiene: story readiness, prioritisation, dependencies, and acceptance criteria
  • Track timelines, milestones, budgets, RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)
  • Facilitate decision forums and unblock squads by escalating with context

Stakeholder management

  • Prepare concise weekly status, burn‑up/down, and risks with mitigations
  • Coordinate demos, UAT cycles, and sign‑offs. Capture decisions and actions
  • Align scope across internal and client stakeholders, manage change requests

Quality and governance

  • Ensure definition of ready/done, test plans, and release checklists are followed
  • Support compliance with security, privacy, and data governance requirements
  • Help enforce delivery playbooks, templates, and documentation standards
  • Commercials and resourcing
  • Assist with statements of work, estimates, and invoicing support
  • Track utilisation, capacity, and vendor coordination

Delivery Outcomes

  • Reliable sprint throughput and predictable releases
  • Transparent status and risks for leadership and clients
  • On‑time delivery against scope with controlled change and traceability
  • Bachelor's in Engineering, CS, Business, or related field
  • 1-3 years in project coordination, PMO, or junior PM roles
  • Clear written and verbal communication with strong stakeholder engagement
  • Proficient with Azure DevOps or Jira, and collaboration tools (Confluence/Notion)
  • Comfortable building lightweight dashboards (Power BI or equivalents) for KPIs
  • Certifications are a plus: Scrum Master, PMP, PRINCE2, or AgilePM
  • Planning and tracking: Azure DevOps Boards, Git, Notion
  • Reporting: Power BI, Excel. Documentation in Notion or Confluence
  • Processes: Agile Scrum, Kanban, iterative delivery, change control, risk management
  • Exposure to AI/ML delivery is advantageous: model lifecycle, data pipelines, and MLOps touchpoints
  • Growth path towards Project Manager with ownership of multiple workstreams

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