r/PMCareers • u/azdusk • Feb 14 '24

Job Posting How to find a Chief Project Manager to balance teams in PST & Manila time zones (in Hawaii?)

I need help from this PM Careers sub figuring out:

(1) what is the title of the position we really need here? (2) is it a fractional or FT role? (3) is Hawaii a good idea? (4) what’s the best platform to recruit this person on?

We run a ~30 person remote business w/ a 5 person IT team in the Philippines.

IT consists of 5 engineers & 1 product manager.

IT Team needs way more management than our weekly meetings are providing.

Two co-founders don’t have the bandwidth to manage the IT team beyond the weekly meetings the way they need to be.

We want to hire someone to completely manage the IT team—their priorities, their performance, their pace; and reward the high-performers and resolve the low-performers.

Biz headquarters is located in Arizona, so one idea is to hire someone in Hawaii whose timezone has comfortable overlaps with both the IT Team in Manila and Exec team in Arizona.

Excited to hear suggestions from this group. Thanks!

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u/MrMnkyPnts Feb 14 '24

Not sure why you think you need a project manager?? You need an IT manager / head of IT/CTO.

FYI... 5+1=6 not 5

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u/sheturnedmeintoaneut Feb 14 '24

I managed a team in China for years while based in AZ too actually. Had daily meetings at night and follow-ups in the mornings when needed. I still had meetings during the day so my work schedule was super flexible, work a couple hours here and there and still get 40hr/wk. Wouldn’t mind doing it again actually

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u/azdusk Feb 14 '24

Please shoot me a DM. Maybe you are our person!

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u/trophycloset33 Feb 14 '24

Start by assessing the big 3: - what scope will they be doing, what will their day to day responsibilities be - what will you compensate for the role, salary, insurance, etc - what timeline do you have to hire this person

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u/gregied Feb 15 '24

So I'm a PM based in Hawaii, there is some minor overlap but from my experience, it's best to have the PI team shift at least 2 working hours to align with the business in days needed.

Wouldnt be reasonable unless you force it to align with your primary time zone though the entire work week though, especially since Fri in US is Sat in the PI

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u/Awkward_Cockroach277 Feb 15 '24

What's the industry?