Senior Project Manager

The job in short

Backbase, Europe's leading and multi award winning Fintech, continues its huge international growth winning more and more projects in KSA with its Banking and Financial services clients. As part of this rapid scaling, Project Management experts are crucial to success.

Meet the job

Senior PM's at Backbase provide effective coordination and communication among all the project stakeholders. In addition, they manage the relationship with Financial Services customers/partners and support and advise clients on implementing their online applications using the Backbase Solution to its full potential. 

Backbase is the fastest-growing front-runner in Engagement Banking software and is experiencing explosive growth in high margin revenue, customer acquisition and headcount. To illustrate - headcount has grown from around 1500  to 2500 people (1,000+ hired in the last 12 months), with offices worldwide and partnering with over 150+ global banks, transforming customer experience for millions of end customers.  All of this has been achieved without taking on debt, which is unheard of in this sector. After becoming a profitable business, Backbase for the first time, took $128m of funding at a conservative $2.6bn valuation to supercharge its growth.

Please note - KSA experience is vital, due to Visa constraints, we are prioritising those already in KSA with transferable Iqama's. We will also consider candidates with experience of working in KSA.

Those who are a strong match to the above requirements will be contacted immediately for an interview so please apply now and without delay as we are hiring rapidly and look for the very best.

How about you?

As a Senior PM, You will have multiple squads of engineers at your disposal. You will also produce and maintain project estimations, plans, statements of work, and change requests. Your project teams consist of hand-picked talent that will enable you to drive value to our customers, whether in the form of a state-of-the-art solution or high-quality assessment and consultancy, all leveraging your consulting and Agile experience. Your close team may include BA's, Solutions Architects and UX - all of which we continue to hire in KSA.

• You have at least five years of PM experience in delivering digital projects; 
• Client Management is your strength with unrivalled experience in managing "complicated" clients; 
• For you, agile is not a framework. It's a philosophy you preach and live by every day; 
• You MUST have experience in delivering complex digital projects to be considered for this role.