Enlighten Designs

Senior Project Manager

Enlighten Designs  •  New Zealand (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

About Enlighten Designs

We're an award-winning creative technical agency and one of Waikato's largest ICT providers — with 25+ years of experience and the energy of a start-up. We deliver software solutions from New Zealand to the world, working with enterprise clients across a broad range of industries and technologies.

Our secret? Our people. We foster a culture where talented individuals can do their best work, build real relationships, and keep learning. We connect, collaborate, and genuinely care about getting things right.

The Role

This is a senior delivery role for an experienced PM who thrives when things are moving fast. You'll work closely with our Business Analysts, UX consultants, and development teams to deliver complex, high-value software projects for some of New Zealand's largest organisations — while helping to define how we use AI to do it better.

AI isn't a buzzword here. We're actively evolving how we deliver projects using AI tools, and we want someone who is genuinely excited about both leveraging AI for productivity and to deliver better value to our clients. If you're curious, delivery-focused, and love a vendor environment — this role was built for you.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Partnering with Sales to scope, quote, and close opportunities
  • Delivering an exceptional project management experience for NZ enterprise clients
  • Managing project budgets, timelines, risks, and resources across complex portfolios
  • Communicating technical challenges clearly to executive and stakeholder audiences

What we're looking for:

You're a seasoned PM who brings both rigour and adaptability. Specifically, you'll have:

  • 8+ years of experience delivering complex projects across multiple industries and technologies
  • Proven experience working with medium to enterprise-sized organisations
  • Strong executive communication skills — written, verbal, and in the room
  • Demonstrated ability to manage budget, risk, and stakeholder expectations in a software development environment
  • Experience leading project teams and facilitating effective project rituals and cadences
  • Comfort operating in a vendor environment that bills for its time
  • Comfort working across concurrent projects and multiple clients
  • A strong interest in AI technologies, with either hands-on experience or genuine enthusiasm for using AI tools to enhance delivery
  • High adaptability — you thrive when requirements shift and no two projects are the same

What's in it for you:

  • Be at the forefront of AI delivery — use cutting-edge tools and help pioneer AI-powered project methodologies
  • High-impact work — deliver complex, meaningful projects for some of New Zealand's most recognised enterprise organisations
  • Work with an extraordinary group of people who treat talent as the organisation's most valuable asset
  • A culture built on collaboration, continuous learning, and having fun along the way
  • Daily team connection (hacky sack, anyone?), regular team lunches, and anniversary celebrations

Hamilton-based with flexible working arrangements

If this role connects with your strengths and excites your curiosity, apply through Seek today!

Research shows women and other underrepresented groups are more likely to self-select out of applying for roles unless they match 100% of the criteria. If you are interested in this role and working with us at Enlighten, but your experience doesn't line up exactly, please still consider applying. You could be the right person for us.

Enlighten Designs

About Enlighten Designs

At Enlighten Designs we focus on results - not buzz words, marketing gimmicks, or sales person sleight of hand. We form partnerships with clients who want exceptional work and we always deliver.

Enlighten Designs was established in 1998 in Hamilton, New Zealand. Over the years we have grown to employ more than 70 talented staff.

Enlighten Designs occupies a prime position within the New Zealand market as one of the recognised leaders in software development, systems integration, and website design. We are also known to be New Zealand’s premier SharePoint provider having gained SharePoint Elite status and winning numerous awards for business productivity solutions utilising the SharePoint platform including the 2013 Microsoft APAC Partner of the Year Award for Collaboration & Content.

Enlighten Designs'​ core business areas are:

Design/UX

Software Development

Business Productivity

We have been a member of the Microsoft Partner Network since 2004. During this time Enlighten Designs has had numerous opportunities to work with their applications, platforms and methodologies.

Enlighten Designs currently possess several competencies and specialisations awarded by Microsoft that recognise our high level of technological excellence, marketplace impact and the satisfaction of our customers through using Microsoft products and services.

Enlighten Designs'​ Microsoft Partner competencies include:

Gold Collaboration & Content

Gold Application Development

Gold Data Platform

Gold Data Analytics

Gold competencies demonstrate our best-in-class expertise within Microsoft’s marketplace. Earning a gold competency is evidence of the deepest, most consistent commitment to a specific, in-demand, business solution area, along with the distinction of being among only 1 percent of Microsoft partners worldwide that have attained this outstanding degree of proficiency.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Hamilton Central, NZ
Year Founded
1998
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