Project coordination
Plans, schedules, owners and status updates for operations, marketing and cross-team projects that keep slipping between people.
Roles · Project & Product Management
A remote project manager, recruited and managed for you.
A project manager who joins your team, owns the plan, chases the open items and keeps everyone updated. We recruit and support them, and you set the priorities.
Project & Product Management
The wider Project & Product team
Delivery has three jobs that often get blurred. A project manager makes sure agreed work ships on time. A product manager decides what's worth building in the first place. A business analyst works out exactly what the business needs before anyone builds it.
Product Manager
Owns the roadmap and the decisions behind it.
Coming soonBusiness Analyst
Turns business needs into clear requirements.
Coming soonWhat a project manager takes off your plate
When projects run on goodwill and memory, deadlines slip quietly. A project manager turns your priorities into a plan, keeps the plan current and tells you early when something is off track. Founders and team leads get their week back, and the team knows what is due and who owns it.
What they do for you
- Turn goals into a plan with owners, dates and dependencies
- Run stand-ups, status meetings and written updates in the format your team prefers
- Keep the project tool, boards and timelines accurate
- Track risks and blockers, and raise them before they become missed dates
- Coordinate design, development, marketing, operations and outside vendors
- Prepare status reports for you, your clients or your leadership
- Run sprint planning and retrospectives when your team works in Agile
The project manager you'll meet
Tools they work in
AsanaJiraClickUpMonday.comNotionTrelloSmartsheetSlackMicrosoft TeamsGoogle WorkspaceMicrosoft 365
A good fit if:
- You run several projects at once and no one person owns the schedule
- You're a founder or department head who spends too much of the week chasing updates
- You have client projects that need one consistent point of contact
Not the right fit if:
- You want a finished project delivered for you. See Managed Project Delivery.
- You need a leader to set strategy for the business; see Executive Search
- You need someone to own the roadmap and decide what gets built; that's Product Manager, a page added after launch
Questions worth asking your PM shortlist
01
"Walk me through a project that slipped. When did you notice, and what did you do?"
Strong answer: an early warning sign they spotted, who they told and when, the options they put forward, and what they changed afterward.
02
"How do you keep status current without holding extra meetings?"
Strong answer: a tool the team updates as part of the work, short written updates on a fixed rhythm, and meetings only for decisions.
03
"Show me a status update you've written for a client or an executive."
Strong answer: a short summary up top, progress against dates, risks with owners, and the decisions needed from the reader.
04
"Which project tool would you set up for a team of our size, and why?"
Strong answer: questions about your team and workflow first, then a simple setup they can explain, and no attachment to one tool.
Signs of a strong project manager:
- Raises risks while there's still time to act
- Keeps one source of truth the whole team trusts
- Writes updates people actually read
- Pushes back on dates that can't be met
Signs of a weak project manager:
- Reports green until the deadline is missed
- Adds meetings instead of fixing the process
- Tracks tasks but not dependencies
- Lets decisions sit with no owner
IT and software projects
Delivery management for software builds, system rollouts and migrations, working alongside your developers and vendors in Jira or your own tool.
Agile & Scrum delivery
Scrum masters and Agile project managers who run sprints, ceremonies and backlogs with your team. Certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2 or CSM can be screened for.
Client and agency projects
A steady point of contact for your clients, with scope, timelines and reporting kept in order across several accounts.
How we hire your project manager
- 1
Talk it through
On a short call we agree the role, the tools, the working-hours overlap with your team, who they report to and what a good first quarter looks like. For this role: your methodology (Agile, waterfall or a mix) and whether the PM faces your clients.
- 2
Meet a shortlist and choose
We source and test candidates for your brief, check backgrounds and references, then introduce you to the ones worth your time. You interview and decide; we arrange the interviews and share our notes.
- 3
Start with support in place
You give them access to your tools and a first set of projects, and your account lead checks in regularly.
Generalist project managers are a familiar search for us. Asking for a certification, a regulated industry or deep technical delivery experience narrows the pool, so allow a bit more time. Our search begins in South Africa and widens when the role calls for it.
How pricing works for a project manager
All of our ways to hire suit a project manager. Choose by who you'd like to run the contract and pay, and we'll set out the trade-offs if that helps. The price depends on seniority, specialization and how you hire.
Your side and ours
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| Task | You | JiveTalent |
|---|---|---|
| Define the role, reporting line and success measures | Lead | Advise and write the brief |
| Source, screen and test candidates | – | Own |
| Interview and select | Make the final decision | Arrange interviews and share our notes |
| Access to your tools, projects and people | Provide | Coordinate the first-week set-up |
| Project priorities and day-to-day direction | Own | – |
| Status reporting to you and your stakeholders | Receive and act on | Your PM produces it; we check it's happening at check-ins |
| Hours and timesheets | Approve | Time is tracked, reported and visible in the client app |
| Performance issues | Raise them | Work through them with you and your PM |
| Offboarding | Remove access to your systems | Run the process |
Questions about hiring a project manager
Can a project manager run a team we already have?
Yes. Most do exactly that: they run your existing designers, developers, marketers or vendors, using your tools and your meeting rhythm.
Will they work during our business hours?
Your PM's hours and their overlap with your team are written into the brief first, so the search only looks at people who can work them.
Can you find a PM with a specific certification or methodology?
Yes. Put it in the brief, and we screen candidates for it and check it during interviews.
What if it isn't working out?
Go to your account lead. Together with your PM, we find what's slipping and agree how to fix it.
Can JiveTalent deliver a whole project for us?
Yes, in two ways. Hire a project manager, and they work for you while you direct the work. Or hand the project over through Managed Project Delivery, and we scope it and deliver it end to end.
How do we see what our project manager is working on?
Every hour is tracked in the client app and shows up in its reports for you to see, and your PM's own status updates sit alongside.
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Hand over the schedule to someone who owns it
Book a call. We'll agree the brief for your project manager and walk through the ways to hire.