Lesego M.
Project Manager
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Notable Highlight
Digital Project Manager with 6+ years of experience leading web development and software projects across agencies and startups. Expertise included Agile delivery, cross-functional team leadership, stakeholder management, and digital transformation. Managed budgets, QA processes, and client relationships while driving process improvements.
Experience Summary
Lesego is a Digital Project Manager with 5+ years of experience leading international projects across software development, web development, mobile app development, and digital marketing. She worked across agencies and tech startup environments, managing cross-functional teams including developers, designers, and QA testers. She delivered projects using Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid delivery approaches. Her background includes stakeholder management, client communication, budgeting, resource allocation, risk management, change management, quality assurance, KPI tracking, project estimation, scope documentation, sprint planning, and business operations support. She has experience with JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Azure DevOps, Notion, ClickUp, Asana, HubSpot, Slack, WordPress, PHP, Headless CMS, Gatsby.js, Drupal, and IoT-related product environments. She brings exposure to product management, UX/UI, SEO, digital marketing, wireframing, digital transformation, web platform delivery, and investor-facing communication. Certifications include Agile, Digital Product Management, UX/UI, SEO, and Google Digital Marketing.
Key Achievements
At a previous company, Lesego upsold projects resulting in 40% of engagements being renewed onto a maintenance offering, directly growing recurring revenue. At WO, she successfully upsold 20% of projects to a different service offering and led the billing run for 70% of the agency's projects. As Co-Founder of MK, she co-built Sensure, an IoT-based insurtech product, managing the full product development lifecycle and providing regular transparency reports to investors.
Skills
Work Experience
Web Development Project Manager
TEA · September 2025 - Present
- Manage over 15 web development projects from start to completion.
- Lead development team members (QA Testers, Developers, Designers).
- Collate briefs from clients and write briefs for developers.
- Produce wireframes, technical, and scope documents when required.
- Liaise with clients regarding projects and manage client relationships and expectations.
- Improve existing and develop new company systems and processes, especially within the web development department, including development and ownership of departmental documentation.
- Conduct quality control of all outgoing work, checking for accuracy.
- Manage budgets and reconciliation.
Web Development Project Manager
a previous company · May 2023 - May 2024
- Led numerous high-paced digital projects focused on headless and custom websites using PHP and WordPress CMS, ensuring timely and high-quality deliverables.
- Upsold projects, resulting in 40% of projects being renewed into a maintenance offering.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, and sales, to ensure smooth project execution and client satisfaction.
- Managed client communications, transforming briefs into actionable project plans.
- Oversaw QA processes, ensuring all projects met performance standards before client delivery.
- Utilized JIRA to plan and measure progress on projects until successful completion.
- Utilized Slack to maintain project transparency and streamline workflows to the team.
- Utilized Confluence to document outcomes and learnings from retrospectives.
- Managed time spent on projects to ensure meeting deadlines within allocated budgets.
Digital Project Manager
WO · April 2021 - April 2023
- Managed end-to-end delivery of numerous development projects using diverse technology stacks (Gatsby.js, PHP, Drupal, WordPress).
- Coordinated with UX and development teams to align project scopes with client goals, ensuring successful deployment.
- Successfully upsold 20% of projects to different service offerings.
- Led project estimation, budgeting, planning, and retrospective meetings to refine processes and drive efficiency.
- Collaborated on retainer projects, providing consistent updates, deployments, and quality control across client platforms.
- Assisted in BizOps tasks, including setting up client proposals and contracts.
- Led the Billing Run for 70% of the agency's projects.
Co-Founder, Project Lead
MK · May 2018 - December 2023
- Co-founded and led development of Sensure, an insurtech product utilizing IoT to promote safer driving behavior.
- Defined product scope and objectives, led sprint planning, and managed a product team through the development lifecycle.
- Allocated resources, managed project timelines, and ensured quality assurance.
- Provided regular progress reports to investors, ensuring transparency and alignment with business goals.
- Utilized Azure DevOps to organize and track all work items using boards, backlogs, and sprints.