The Company

Electrum is a next-generation payment software technology company.

Since 2012, we've delivered trusted, enterprise-grade, cloud-native software to optimise financial transaction processing. Our deep expertise has established us as a respected partner in high-volume, low-value payment schemes, enabling clients to deliver services to millions of South Africans daily.

At Electrum, we aregrounded in impact – designing solutions that matter, acting with urgency, and continuously learning as we scale. We believe increating together – working side by side with our clients and teams to build meaningful, lasting solutions. We prioritisemaking it safe – encouraging open communication, smart risk-taking, and trust so that creativity and alignment thrive. And we backempowered strong teams – hiring brilliant people, collaborating hard, and holding each other to high standards while leading with empathy and kindness.

When you join the Electrum team, you’ll get to:

Be part of the entire journey — from the spark of an idea to the final product launch.
Grow your skills throughworld-class training and hands-on learning every day.
Receivementorship and guidance from industry leaders who are invested in your success.
Work in adynamic, innovative workplace where collaboration and creativity thrive.
Tackle real-world customer challenges and see the impact of your work firsthand.
Exploreplenty of opportunities to grow your career and expand your expertise.
Gainvaluable experience in a leading FinTech environment, contributing to meaningful, high-impact projects.

The Opportunity

Accelerate your career with South Africa's leading FinTech. This high-impact role involves managing complex, end-to-end, cloud-native payment projects for major banks and retailers. As a customer advocate, you will affect millions of people daily.Based in Jhb, this Role will require to be onsite at the clients offices with frequent travel to Cape Town.

The Role:

If you are delivery-focused, customer-centric, and committed to long-term, trusted relationships, Electrum's Project Manager role is ideal. You will manage the end-to-end delivery of projects—from sales handover through development to support handover—by working closely with customers (large banks and retailers), the sales team, and the engineering team, while building strong relationships with key customer stakeholders.

A project manager within Electrum’s customer success team, will manage timelines, budget and scope and ensure customer expectations are managed and met.

You will:

Co-ordinate full lifecycle software and customer implementation projects.
Ensure that projects are delivered on time, within scope, within budget and of good quality
Build strong relationships with customers and third-party providers as well as internally with sales, engineering, product and tech ops teams
Manage dependencies
Guide the team to ensure the delivery plan is met
Facilitate and run project meetings such as status updates and retrospectives
Maintain and improve project process
Be a customer advocate within Electrum
Grow your industry knowledge
Contribute to the on-going growth and success of Electrum

What You Can Bring to Electrum (non-negotiables):

Relevant degree
5+ years experience as a project manager on software projects, at least some of which are in a formal or corporate environment
Experience working with external clients, preferably in a B2B environment
Ability to build strong relationships across all levels of the organisation
Background in tech/information technology industry
A track record of successful delivery working across multiple teams on multiple products in a fast-paced, market-driven environment
Excellent communication and relationship management skills

Increase your odds by having:

Prince 2, PMP or Agile training will be advantageous
Financial Services/ Payment /Fintech industry experience

Why Join Electrum?

We believe in aPeople First approach, ensuring a culture where you can thrive and make a real difference

Your Career & Culture

Career Growth: Delivering world-class financial software is challenging, but your effort will earn you hands-on experience with products used by millions,accelerating your career.
Strong Teams: We keep teams small, focused, and collaborative to maximizeimpact.
Transparency: We openly discuss strategy, finances, and salaries. Mistakes are viewed aslearning opportunities that we actively discuss.
Autonomy: Wetrust you. You're expected to seek out the data needed for informed decisions and manage your own time—knowing when to focus and when to recharge.
Shared Vision: You'll have the power toshape the vision of how we build the future of financial services.

Practical Perks

Here's how we support our culture:

Flexible Work: Office-first environment withflexible hours.
Generous Leave: Starting at20 days per year.
Office Perks (Cape Town): Fully-stocked kitchen anddaily catered lunch.

Social Life: Regular team activities like hikes, getaways, and dinners

Electrum Software remote jobs

Project Manager - Intermediate (Jhb Based)