Project Manager (Enterprise Government & Banking Services)

WHO WE ARE

Hey there! We are Paismo, a fast-growing HR Tech / FinTech startup backed by leading global investors and powered by a distributed team across the United States, Pakistan, Mexico, UAE, and other global markets. As we continue to grow, we’re also expanding our presence across the GCC region.

Our mission is simple yet ambitious: to change the way businesses manage, pay, and grow their workforce. Paismo’s SaaS-based HR, Payroll, and Workforce Management platform helps organizations streamline people operations with smart, scalable technology.

We’re building a strong team of talented engineers and are now looking to add a Project Manager (Enterprise Government & Banking Services) to our onsite team in Lahore, Pakistan. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, are highly organized, responsive, and delivery-focused, and enjoy leading complex enterprise implementations, we’d love to connect.

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for driving the successful delivery of enterprise implementations, particularly with government and banking institutions. You will lead projects from requirements discovery through deployment, ensuring implementations are delivered on time, within scope, and with high quality.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, QA, product, and enterprise stakeholders while coordinating complex implementations involving custom workflows, integrations, data migration, and compliance requirements.

If you’re looking for a fast-paced, challenging, and high-impact environment where you can lead critical enterprise implementations, we’re the team for you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Project Planning & Delivery: Own and manage the full delivery lifecycle for enterprise implementations including planning, execution, monitoring, and deployment. Build and maintain detailed project plans covering milestones, dependencies, timelines, and delivery risks.
• Implementation Management: Lead customization-heavy enterprise implementations from requirements gathering through configuration, build coordination, testing, and go-live.
• Stakeholder Management: Manage enterprise stakeholders across HR, Finance, IT, Compliance, InfoSec, Internal Audit, and leadership teams. Facilitate delivery standups, cross-functional workshops, and weekly steering committee meetings to ensure alignment and timely decision-making.
• Requirements Discovery & Documentation: Lead requirements discovery and solution design sessions with enterprise stakeholders. Translate complex business needs into structured documentation including BRDs, FRDs, user stories, process maps, acceptance criteria, and Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM). Facilitate workshops to define HR and payroll configurations such as leave policies, attendance rules, approval workflows, job grades, organizational structures, payroll calendars, allowances/deductions, employee letters, and role-based access controls.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate closely with engineering and QA teams to translate requirements into actionable tickets and ensure sprint execution remains aligned with project milestones.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Own the end-to-end testing process including System Integration Testing (SIT) coordination with engineering and QA teams, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with enterprise stakeholders. Prepare UAT scripts, onboard users for testing, manage defect triage and prioritization, and ensure formal sign-off before go-live.
• Change & Scope Management: Manage project scope through structured change management processes. Assess the impact of change requests on cost, timelines, and delivery risk.
• Security & Compliance Coordination: Coordinate security and compliance inputs including data access requirements, hosting considerations, and audit-related needs.
• Go-Live & Deployment: Drive go-live readiness including cutover planning, rollback strategies, and post-launch hypercare support.
• Reporting & Risk Management: Provide regular delivery updates to enterprise stakeholders and internal leadership highlighting progress, risks, and key decisions required. Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions) and proactively manage project risks to ensure smooth delivery.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 2–3+ years of experience in project management delivering enterprise software implementations such as HRIS, payroll systems, ERP platforms, or workflow solutions.
• Proven experience managing customization-heavy implementations from requirements gathering through build, UAT, and go-live.
• Strong experience converting business needs into structured documentation including BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process maps.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams including engineering, QA, product, and enterprise stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience running delivery ceremonies such as implementation workshops, standups, stakeholder updates, and planning sessions.
• Strong understanding of the testing lifecycle, including SIT coordination, UAT planning, defect tracking, and release readiness.
• Ability to manage scope, risks, timelines, and dependencies across multiple workstreams.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Asana, Linear, Notion, Confluence, Slack, or similar platforms.
• Comfortable managing multiple workstreams including HR modules, integrations, reporting, approvals/workflows, security & access controls, and data migration.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Experience working with regulated enterprises such as banking, government, or compliance-heavy organizations.
• Familiarity with enterprise security and identity systems such as SSO (SAML/OAuth), RBAC, audit logs, data retention policies, and maker-checker approval workflows.
• Experience coordinating information security reviews, vendor onboarding processes, risk questionnaires, or security assessments.
• Experience managing system integrations such as finance/ERP systems, biometric attendance devices, email or SMS gateways, and identity management systems.
• Hands-on experience managing data migration projects, including mapping, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation.
• Understanding of Pakistan payroll structures including tax, EOBI, social security, allowances, and payroll calendars.
• Experience building and managing master delivery plans using tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, or Excel.

OUR CULTURE

• We are a global team of iterative, growth minded individuals
• We are accountable, committed to our goals
• We are problem focused and transparent in actions towards achieving goals
• We are team players, honest and caring for each other
• We thrive in environments that enable us to speak up and push for the overall mission of the company, which is to redefine the way workers globally are managed, earn, and grow

INTERVIEW PROCESS

• Please note, for all technical positions, we conduct a Live Case Interview to validate qualifications and practical experience.
• Candidates are hired upon satisfactory background checks.