Senior Project Manager (AI)

Location: Hybrid, based in Mumbai, with teams in the office around four days a week. Other listed locations: Atlanta, Georgia, United States; Barcelona.

Company

hirify.global is a WPP company specializing in brand strategy, design, experience, governance, measurement, and related creative capabilities.

What you will do

• Author Round 1 drafts of Scopes of Work, staffing plans, project approaches, and delivery timelines for client engagements.
• Establish critical paths, workback plans, milestone checkpoints, status documentation, and dashboards for complex multi-track brand initiatives.
• Manage squad allocations, resource sharing, capacity forecasting, and regular alignment reviews with regional and global resourcing leads.
• Support competitive pitches, new business opportunities, and organic account growth through timelines, deliverable tracking, and project setup.
• Track budgets, fee burn, revenue and billing milestones, invoices, purchase orders, timesheets, and work-in-progress reconciliations.
• Maintain quality standards and structured archives for deliverables, pitch materials, case histories, credentials, and commercial benchmarks.

Requirements

• Structured project management or project operations experience in a brand consultancy, creative agency, or professional services firm.
• Ability to create comprehensive Scopes of Work, staffing plans, project approaches, and commercial budgets from scratch, owning Round 1 deliverables.
• Hands-on experience with agency resource allocation, staffing models, and capacity forecasting in partnership with regional or global resourcing leads.
• Experience supporting new business pitches and organic account expansion.
• Proven collaboration across distributed, cross-functional teams, global brands, and cross-cultural time zones.
• Fluency with modern project management systems, workflow automation, and generative AI tools.
• Strong understanding of project finance, billable utilization, rate cards, fee structures, and commercial risk mitigation.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment and accountability under tight deadlines and ambiguity.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with teams in the office around four days a week.
• Work with global brands and distributed creative, client service, finance, and resourcing teams.
• Equal opportunity employment and a culture of respect, belonging, and career progression.