Senior Project Manager

We are hiring a Senior Project Manager to lead our Delivery department and own every customer implementation from contract signature to go-live and handover. You will turn sold deals into deployed, adopted cybersecurity solutions — on time, within scope, and to the security and compliance standards our clients expect.

You will manage a portfolio of concurrent SaaS deployments for enterprise and government clients across Saudi Arabia and the GCC. You will build the department's processes, mentor a junior Delivery Specialist, and act as the trusted face of delivery to client executives and technical teams.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery leadership

• Lead the Delivery department and set its strategy, processes, tools, and quality standards.
• Build a repeatable delivery methodology: onboarding playbooks, templates, RACI, stage gates, and handover checklists.
• Forecast delivery capacity and flag hiring or partner needs as the customer base grows.

Project and portfolio management

• Own end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent SaaS implementations: kickoff, scoping, planning, deployment, integration, UAT, go-live and handover to Customer Success.
• Define scope, milestones, budgets and resource plans; manage change requests and prevent scope creep.
• Track risks, issues and dependencies, and escalate early with clear options.
• Coordinate with Product, Engineering, Security Operations, Pre-Sales and Customer Success to remove blockers.

Client and stakeholder management

• Serve as the main delivery contact for client executives, CISOs, IT and SOC teams.
• Run steering committees, status meetings and executive reporting in Arabic and English.
• Ensure deployments meet client security, data-residency and regulatory requirements (e.g. NCA ECC, SAMA CSF, PDPL).
• Manage expectations and resolve escalations to protect customer satisfaction and renewals.

People leadership

• Manage, coach and develop the Delivery Specialist; set goals and review performance.
• Delegate project workstreams appropriately and grow the specialist toward independent ownership.

Reporting and governance

• Maintain accurate project status, timelines, and health in the PM tooling.
• Report delivery KPIs to leadership and run post-project reviews to drive continuous improvement.
• Feed client insights and recurring deployment issues back to Product.

Requirements

• Native Arabic speaker with excellent written and spoken Arabic; professional fluency in English.
• 6+ years of project management experience.
• Proven record delivering enterprise implementations for large or government clients.
• Familiarity with Saudi and GCC regulatory frameworks such as NCA ECC, SAMA CSF and PDPL.
• Strong command of Agile and Waterfall/hybrid delivery methods.
• Hands-on with PM and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Excellent stakeholder management, presentation and executive-communication skills.
• Organised, calm under pressure and able to manage competing priorities across several projects.

Preferred qualifications

• PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner certification.
• Solid working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts: security operations, log sources,  integrations, identity and cloud security.
• Experience working with public-sector and critical-infrastructure clients in Saudi Arabia.

Benefits

🚀 Impact that Matters – Build products that shape the future of cybersecurity and protect organizations globally.

💡 Continuous Growth – Access to certifications, trainings, and opportunities to sharpen your expertise.

📈 Ownership Mindset – Benefit from our ESOP program and grow with COGNNA’s success.

🤝 Culture of Trust – We empower talent, encourage ownership, and celebrate real outcomes.