Digital Project Manager at CareerBuddy

As a Digital Project Manager (f/*/m), you will:

• Understand the goal of our clients and translate them into conceptual, design, and technical solutions
• Guide a variety of projects, work with capacity planning, estimations, and workflows
• Work with clients in South Africa, the UK, and Europe
• Work with colleagues in the Americas, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, the UK, and Serbia
• Suggest improvements and new functionalities, which can solve clients' concerns
• Play a Quality Control role to take care that highest standards are met
• Take responsibility of planning, review, estimation, and project retrospective meetings
• Regularly brief the client and internal team about the status of the project with regards to budget, progress, and timing
• Take responsibility for communication between all stakeholders, including the UX/design team, development team, and clients

What you'll bring:

• At least 2 years of experience in digital project management/ product ownership in a web agency (or similar, such as web/software/project management)
• Experience working within a remote/distributed team
• Experience with budget responsibility (e.g. responsible for the direction and tracking the project budget)
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Excellent deadline and time management skills for both yourself and your team
• Excellent client communication (email, Slack, video conferencing)
• Experience working asynchronously across multiple time zones
• Experience working with a team towards a common goal like a launch date or other deadline
• Experience with managing their own and other team members' task lists and pushing tasks over the line and following up timeously on incomplete tasks
• Experience following internal processes
• Alignment with our values of curiosity, transparency, compassion, and an interest to learn more. We aren't looking for someone who has seen and done it all, but instead someone who wants to continually learn and develop themselves.
• Alignment with our values of equity, diversity, and inclusion

The following would be great additions but are not essential:

• Previously worked in a development team or has a software development or computer science background

We prioritise work experience over academic qualifications for this role. We would like to contact two professional references.