Technical Project Manager
Makati City - Philippines
Job Summary
Job Description:
The Work:
The work is about making the business faster and freeing teams to do more whether thats a tool Finance uses to manage requisitions a system that keeps timesheets compliant or an agentic AI workflow that a delivery team uses to move faster. Were actively ramping up our AI capabilities agentic systems machine learning and AI-assisted operations and this role will be at the center of managing that work.
As Technical Project Manager youll run delivery across several of these programs at once coordinating software engineers data engineers and analysts in a distributed team across the globe. Youll be the person partners come to for a straight answer on where their project stands. And youll use AI yourself day to day drafting synthesizing and thinking through plans so you can stay across the full slate.
What Youll Own:
Program Delivery
- Own the delivery of multiple concurrent build programs custom applications workflow automations data work and AI-powered solutions including agentic and machine learning workstreams from intake through deployment and real adoption. You hold scope sequence and dependencies and you drive each program to a defined finish.
- Run the day-to-day across a team spread over three time zones keeping work moving instead of stalling until the next overlap window.
Partners & Communication
- Be the bridge between the internal partners who own a process Finance Sales Delivery HR Resource Management and the team building the fix: keep both sides aligned make sure the analysts get the access and decisions they need from the partner and turn a status question into a current accurate answer.
- Run the delivery cadence (standups working sessions status) and hold contributors to their commitments across time zones.
- Surface risk and slippage early with a recommended path before a date gets missed.
Process & Governance
- Keep the portfolio honest in our portfolio-management tool: intake scoping scoring and sequencing on a monthly nomination and six-week steering-committee cadence.
- Design and keep sharpening how the team runs delivery a modern practical approach measured by what ships not by how faithfully we follow a methodology. The process serves the work never the reverse and governance stays visible without becoming overhead.
What You Bring:
- 37 years managing projects with 24 years running software or application delivery specifically.
- A record of running several delivery programs at once and driving them to closure holding people to commitments not only tracking tasks.
- Enough technical fluency to move at a developers pace: you understand the software development lifecycle end to end discovery design build QA release and adoption and know what your job is at each stage.
- You dont write the code but you can run meetings read a solution design spot where integration risk sits catch a padded estimate and understand what a deployment involves enough to ask the questions that matter.
- Experience coordinating distributed or offshore teams across time zones.
- Clear direct communication that translates between technical teams and non-technical business partners.
- You already use AI tools in your daily work drafting status and communications pulling a clear picture out of scattered notes thinking through a plan and you know where they help and where they dont.
- You come with a point of view you can spot whats missing in a scope identify the dependency that will blow a timeline and tell someone what they need to hear with a recommendation attached. Not a passive facilitator.
- You understand how a professional services and agency organization runs how work gets initiated scoped resourced and delivered so you can anticipate what internal teams need rather than just react.
What Sets You Apart:
- Hands-on familiarity with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps Power Automate Dataverse).
- Experience managing modern web application projects deployed on Microsofts Azure platform.
- Experience delivering in a client-facing agency or professional services environment the pace accountability and stakeholder pressure that come with that background translate directly into what this team demands.
- Experience maturing project management practices on a growing team.
- Working knowledge of Azure DevOps from a project management perspective.
- Experience managing AI ML or agentic workflow delivery specifically.
What We Offer
- A team with real shipped products in daily use across the business not a backlog of slideware.
- AI-assisted engineering as a daily practice and direct exposure to enterprise Microsoft data and AI work.
Location:
DGS Philippines - Makati City - RCBC PlazaBrand:
MerkleTime Type:
Full timeContract Type:
PermanentRequired Experience:
IC
About Company
Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in approximately 120 countries.