Senior Project Manager

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to Know Our Team

The OCO Office's People Program Management Office helps Grab solve complex organisational challenges and turn ideas into practical outcomes.

Our work sits at the intersection of people, technology, and operations. Every programme brings a new problem to solve, a new frontier to explore, or an opportunity to improve how Grab works. We continually challenge our own standards, experiment with better ways of working, and build solutions that make a lasting difference.

If you enjoy creating clarity from complexity, questioning the status quo, and helping teams deliver meaningful change, you will find plenty to keep you busy here.

Get to Know the Role

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead complex, cross-functional programmes across multiple domains. You will drive business outcomes via the projects you manage, align stakeholders, track risks and dependencies.

You will work closely with People, Technology, Engineering, Product, Operations, and country teams. You will also help strengthen PMO practices, reporting, governance, and delivery standards across the organisation.

At Grab, we're committed to enabling those closest to the problem to solve it using AI, and this extends to how we run our programmes. As a Senior Project Manager, you're expected to actively use AI tools to accelerate planning, reporting, risk analysis, and documentation and to bring an experimental mindset to identifying where AI and automation can remove friction from delivery work, while applying sound judgement on confidentiality and data handling.

This is an onsite role based in Malaysia, reporting to the Manager, Program Management. If you enjoy bringing order to complicated work and making progress visible, we would like to hear from you.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Coordinate multiple workstreams across People, Technology, Engineering, Product, Operations, and regional teams to deliver agreed outcomes.
• Establish and maintain project governance, including status reporting, RAID logs, decision registers, steering forums, and escalation paths.
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methods based on the needs and complexity of each programme.
• Identify delivery risks and dependencies early, drive mitigation actions, and escalate decisions that could affect timelines or outcomes.
• Use GenAI tools to improve project planning, status reporting, meeting documentation, risk analysis, and workflow efficiency while applying appropriate confidentiality and review controls.
• Identify opportunities to improve PMO processes, templates, reporting standards, and delivery practices across the People Team.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• At least 5 years of experience working as a Project Manager, leading complex projects, transformation initiatives, or technology-enabled process improvements.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects involving Human Resources (HR), employee experience, or workforce-related processes, including enterprise systems implementation or large-scale software rollouts.
• Strong understanding of software implementation, testing, rollout, change management, and adoption.
• Experienced work through unclear requirements, prioritise competing demands, and convert ambiguity into structured delivery plans.
• Experience managing projects with stakeholders across different countries, cultures, and departments.
• Hands-on experience building AI, automation, or workflow solutions for real business problems.
• Experience using AI tools and emerging technologies to improve productivity and workflows.'
• Combine strategic thinking with hands-on project execution.

Good to Have

• Experience applying human oversight, data protection, and risk controls when implementing AI solutions.
• Experience leading M&A integration projects.
• Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent.

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.