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Project Manager

MOHARA|Posted 1 month ago

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Skills and experience

Role:Project manager
Experience in role:3+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    Jira

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid
Location of job:Cape Town, South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder, permanent resident or work permit/visa holder
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent
Salary range:R30,000 - R50,000 per month

Role description

Who are we?

MOHARA is a venture builder and technology investor, dedicated to helping startups and corporate ventures turn ideas into impactful digital products. From initial concept to full delivery, we provide strategic guidance and technical expertise to shape, build, and launch products successfully.

Our diverse, distributed team operates across the UK, Thailand, Mexico, and South Africa, collaborating seamlessly across time zones to deliver value for our clients. We’re guided by core values: honesty, courage, vision, investment in each other and our work, empathy, and curiosity.

The Role

What we’re looking for

We’re excited to welcome a motivated and experienced Project Manager to join our team and contribute to our digital product development projects. This role offers an opportunity for someone passionate about technology and innovation to jumpstart their project management career in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. As a Project Manager, you’ll collaborate closely with founders, developers, QA engineers, and designers to support the planning, execution, and delivery of digital products that meet and exceed client expectations.

Responsibilities

With a focus on continuous learning and adaptability, the Project Manager will:

  • Assist in planning and executing software development projects, including web/mobile applications and other digital assets.
  • Work with cross-functional teams—designers, developers, QA engineers, and founders—to gather project requirements and create comprehensive project plans.
  • Track project progress, identify potential risks, and implement mitigation strategies to ensure timely and successful delivery.
  • Coordinate project meetings, prepare agendas, and document key points to ensure clear communication among stakeholders.
  • Assist in preparing and maintaining project documentation, including project scope, user stories, wireframes, prototypes, and test plans.
  • Monitor project budgets, help track expenses, and report on financials to keep projects within budget.
  • Participate in project review meetings, contributing insights and suggesting improvements for best practices in development.
  • Support team members by scheduling meetings and organizing project-related materials.
  • Collaborate with internal teams on resource allocation, ensuring teams have the tools and support needed to achieve project goals.
  • Contribute to the ongoing improvement of project management methodologies, tools, and templates.

Requirements:

  • Relevant Bachelors Degree or educational background. A degree in Computer Science or related is highly advantageous.
  • Experience in project administration within the IT sector.
  • A technical background with hands-on experience or understanding of software development and web technologies.
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks across multiple projects.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to interact effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Detail-oriented, with a commitment to quality in all aspects of digital product development.
  • Familiarity with project management tools and digital collaboration platforms (e.g., Jira, Slack) is a plus.
  • Knowledge of agile methodologies, scrum frameworks, and lean development principles is an advantage.
  • Proactive, with a genuine passion for technology and digital innovation.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a creative approach to addressing challenges in digital product development.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment and independently with minimal supervision.

Culture

MOHARA has a relaxed, informal, and trusting working environment. We often rely on each other for more than just project advice. We’re looking for people who are interested in more than a day job.

The individuals we hire are curious, have a point of view and know how to communicate it. They are also empathetic - to each other, to our customers’ needs, and also for the users for whom we build innovative products.

Our particular client mix means we look for people with the courage to push the boundaries of their abilities and our clients expectations, who look beyond what is asked of them to find new opportunities, who are authentic in their abilities and honest with themselves. We treat a client’s fledgling business like our own, and recognise the investment and passion that drives them.

Package

  • 19 days holiday, plus an additional day per year of service
  • Opportunity to travel
  • Medical insurance contribution
  • Company issued equipment
  • Annual Company Outing
  • Vibrant Cape Town office space should you choose to come into office
  • Remote and flexible working
  • Birthday Leave
  • The option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave

Apply

https://mohara.co/careers/?jobId=j2rD5SQXTXUE

Please note that only candidates who meet the stipulated minimum requirements will be considered. If you have not been contacted within 30 days, kindly note that your application has been unsuccessful.

About MOHARA

51-200 employees

What We Do

The MOHARA startup studio helps founders reduce execution risk. Our company provides engineering and product development at a cost rate in return for equity in the business.

To deliver our product development process, we’re always on the lookout for talented people that have the experience and smarts to find a way to deliver, even when the way forward isn’t clear.

Why Work For Us

The diversity of products, tech and industries we work with and in, makes us the perfect place for ambitious developers to make meaningful contributions while shaping businesses and honing their skills.

As an international team of diverse and talented individuals, we work collaboratively with our UK, Mexican, South African and Thailand colleagues. We also provide opportunities to travel between our office locations and work abroad.

MOHARA’s offices are currently based in London, Bangkok, Cape Town and Guadalajara.

Our Culture

At MOHARA, we believe that balance is important. While we strive for technical excellence and encourage entrepreneurial thinking, we also know how to enjoy ourselves. Our Cape Town office frequently arranges informal and planned gatherings that provide the opportunity to strengthen team bonds and also to have fun.

Our team is curious, has a point of view and knows how to communicate it. They take on challenges and push their role, our limits and our clients to be braver, better and more human.

We have a counselling system in place whereby everyone at MOHARA is assigned a counsellor whose role is to “project manage your career”. Along with that they become a point of contact for any day to day issue or question that might arise. We believe that this system is vital in ensuring personal and career happiness and growth for everyone at MOHARA.

We take pride in our company values and seek to embody them by showing vision in our thinking; courage in our actions and communication; investment in the team and its success and honesty within MOHARA and with our partners.

Our Engineering Processes

Due to our global office structure, we work according to an agile engineering approach. This allows our teams to develop and iterate products efficiently. MOHARA’s engineering team works closely with their project managers and project owners to form a clear feedback loop.

MOHARA provides non-technical founders with a dynamic and skilled team who are able to join the project and make it their own. You will work alongside designers, project managers and product owners who help guide, shape and build the project.

Project teams are frequently made up of members from our different locations, meaning you have access to a large pool of skills and knowledge. We have built over one hundred startups and hold a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the space. MOHARA is a place that allows engineers to engage with elements of building startups that often are reserved for founding members of a new venture. It offers the excitement and learning opportunities of building startups with the added comfort of working in a larger company that provides structure, security, knowledge, practices and processes.

From a technical perspective we believe in building products, not simply technology. Each project we take on goes through a dedicated design and architecture phase where we tease out the best solution and design accordingly. We occasionally take on projects that have legacy codebases too. Due to this we have a variety of tech stacks in use at MOHARA, and are not scared to try out new tools. Engineers are able to either choose a preference of tech stack to work in, or be afforded the opportunity to branch out into new ones.

Our Hiring Process

We pride ourselves in our recruitment process being both transparent and practical. Our hiring process consists of a minimum of two interviews. The first interview provides a broad overview of MOHARA and the envisaged role, with the second interview having a stronger technical focus. Once completing the interview process, we will notify you of the status of your application within a reasonable period.

Pioneering Together.

Perks at MOHARA

No dress code, whatever works for you.
Shares in our equity pool
Flexible hours
Office retreat
Work from home policy
Visa assistance
Travel opportunities to other global offices
Relaxed, modern working environment
Counselling and development

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Rails
Rails
AngularJS
AngularJS
Sass
Sass
Heroku
Heroku
Laravel
Laravel
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Apache Cordova
Apache Cordova
Objective-C
Objective-C
Javascript
Javascript
Node.js
Node.js
Python
Python
MySQL
MySQL
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Spring Framework
Spring Framework
Swift
Swift
Ruby
Ruby
React
React
Redis
Redis
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
MongoDB
MongoDB
memcached
memcached
MEAN Stack
MEAN Stack
jQuery
jQuery
HTML5
HTML5
Go
Go
Django
Django
C#
C#
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
nginx
nginx
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
unity
unity
MS SQL
MS SQL
Kafka
Kafka
Cassandra
Cassandra
TypeScript
TypeScript
R
R
TensorFlow
TensorFlow
Vue.js
Vue.js
Aurelia
Aurelia
Angular
Angular

utilities

Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53
Amazon SES
Amazon SES
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Mixpanel
Mixpanel
Mailgun
Mailgun

dev ops

Ansible
Ansible
Bower
Bower
GitHub
GitHub
Grunt
Grunt
Jenkins
Jenkins
Papertrail
Papertrail
Circle CI
Circle CI
Git
Git
Chef
Chef
Docker
Docker
Maven
Maven
Gradle
Gradle
Selenium
Selenium
Android Studio
Android Studio
npm
npm
Xcode
Xcode
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Kubernetes

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack
Trello
Trello
MailChimp
MailChimp
Zendesk
Zendesk
JIRA
JIRA

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