Project Manager – Product Development

Job Description

Sterling Wells Nepal is the operational hub of a GLOBAL-based group of chartered certified accountancy firms and fintech companies, including GLOBAL Property Accountants, Sterling & Wells, Crane & Partners, FigsFlow, RentalBux, Taxule, and PropertySPV. We support thousands of clients across 50+ countries.

We are in an active phase of multi-product development, building SaaS platforms that serve accounting and advisory firms across the GLOBAL, US & other European market. To keep pace with our product roadmap and delivery commitments, we are looking for a hands-on Project Manager who can bring structure, accountability, and momentum to our engineering teams.

What You'll Own

•    Sprint Planning & Execution: Design, own, and run sprint cycles across multiple concurrent product development projects in close collaboration with business stakeholders and developers. Define scope, assign tasks, set timelines, and drive each sprint to completion.

•    Azure DevOps Management: Take full ownership of the project management environment in Azure DevOps — maintaining a clean, up-to-date board with accurate task status, priorities, assignments, and delivery milestones at all times.

•    User Story Creation: Work with the business team and product leads to break down features and requirements into well-structured, developer-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria, effort estimates, and dependency mapping.

•    Delivery Accountability: Hold developers and contributors to committed delivery dates. Identify blockers early, escalate promptly, and drive resolution — ensuring nothing slips without a documented reason and a recovery plan.

•    Senior Management Reporting: Prepare and deliver regular status reports to senior management covering delivery progress, sprint velocity, timeline gaps, risks, and open issues. Reports must be clear, factual, and actionable.

•    Individual Performance Visibility: Track and report on each team member's contribution against sprint commitments. Work closely with senior management to surface performance trends, flag underperformance, and support improvement planning.

•    Proactive Communication: Anticipate and proactively inform senior management of upcoming deadlines, dependency risks, scope changes, and team capacity issues — before they become problems. Be the early-warning system for the leadership team.

•    Cross-functional Coordination: Serve as the connective tissue between the business team, product leads, and developers — ensuring everyone has the context, clarity, and direction they need to execute without friction.

•    Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate project delivery processes, identify inefficiencies, and propose improvements that increase team throughput and reduce rework or miscommunication.

•    Documentation & Knowledge Management: Maintain accurate project documentation including sprint records, decision logs, risk registers, and retrospective notes — ensuring institutional knowledge is captured and accessible.

What We Need

•    Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

•    3–5 years of experience in a Project Manager role within a software or SaaS product development environment.

•    Hands-on, working knowledge of Azure DevOps — boards, backlogs, pipelines, and reporting. This is non-negotiable.

•    Proven experience running Agile / Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

•    Strong instinct for accountability — you follow up, you push, and you do not let tasks go silent.

•    Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English; able to produce crisp, management-ready status reports.

•    High attention to detail: you notice when things are off before anyone else does.

Nice to Have

•    Prior experience managing product development projects in a fintech, SaaS, or professional services technology business.

•    Familiarity with product management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Notion, or Linear alongside Azure DevOps.

•    Basic understanding of software development concepts — APIs, front-end vs back-end, release cycles — to hold credible conversations with developers.

•    Comfort using AI tools to accelerate documentation, reporting, and planning tasks.

What Makes This Role Different

•    You will own accountability across multiple SaaS products

•    You will have direct access to senior leadership and a real mandate to drive accountability at every level of the team.

•    Your work directly shapes the speed and quality with which our products reach users — the impact is immediate and measurable.

•    You will operate at the intersection of product strategy and engineering execution, with exposure to product vision, business priorities, and technical delivery all at once.

What We Offer

•    International working environment with exposure to a global-facing multi-product technology group.

•    Clear growth trajectory as the group's product portfolio continues to scale.

•    Competitive salary package based on experience and qualification.