About the Company
Our client is a fast-growing, employee-owned SaaS business. Self-funded and profitable, they have built a dominant position in their core markets and are now scaling aggressively into enterprise accounts across New Zealand and international markets.
The Role:
This is a newly created senior position within a lean, high-performing delivery function. As the only Project Manager based in Auckland, you will own a portfolio of 3-4 concurrent projects at any one time.
You will be working on a live, customer-led platform where features are built in parallel with deployment. This is not a greenfield build or a textbook implementation. Your ability to manage evolving scope, shifting priorities and stakeholder expectations around work-in-progress is critical to success.
You will also play a key role in lifting delivery capability across the business, mentoring junior staff and embedding best practice where many projects are run by non-PMs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage dependencies and the critical path across live platform development
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders around evolving and incomplete parts of the platform
- Prioritise effectively across the full business, not just a single project
- Uplift and mentor junior staff
- International travel will be required on an ad-hoc basis
- A strong technical delivery background, not just stakeholder management
- Demonstrated experience managing bespoke or "build-as-you-go" projects, not just straight implementations.
- Confidence to push back on stakeholders, including strong personalities.
- Comfort with ambiguity, reprioritisation, and managing across multiple workstreams concurrently
- Experience delivering software projects with a build or development component
- A track record that reflects tenure and commitment
- Familiarity working in an environment that uses AI-assisted development tooling (Claude Code)
The Auckland headquarters has a culture that is fast-paced, performance-oriented and genuinely high-trust. Promotions happen quickly, attrition is extremely low, and the business rewards people who deliver.
- Competitive remuneration
- Discretionary bonus available
- 4 weeks annual leave plus a high-trust flexible leave policy
- Employee ownership opportunity, including shares in the business
- Open to contractors looking to return to permanent employment
Apply now to be considered. Please note we can only consider Auckland-based applicants with valid working rights.
