Hire a project manager who owns delivery end-to-end

Senior Latin American project managers who run delivery inside your tools, on your hours, and raise a date risk while there is still time to act on it.

  • Owns the schedule, the dependencies, and the escalation before it turns into a delay
  • Writes the weekly status a non-technical stakeholder can act on
  • Works inside the plan and the rituals you already have, not a system of their own
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Placing Latin American talent since 2020
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What a project manager is actually for

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The job of a project manager is to own project gaps: to turn a set of intentions into a sequence with the dependencies attached, to hold the scope line when someone asks for one more thing, and to be the single person who can say what the date is and why it moved. That is what you hire a project manager for, accountability for the sequence rather than adding another opinion to it.

Deverr finds one senior project manager in Latin America, puts them through the screen below, and places them inside your team, reporting to you. The shortlist comes back matched to how you already run delivery, whether that is two-week sprints, a kanban board, or a fixed-scope client project with a contract date attached to it.

What we check before a PM reaches your shortlist

The project managers we place are skilled and well-rounded when it comes to keeping the ball moving.

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Delivery they actually ran

Scored on a walkthrough of real projects: what the scope was, who they had to move, and what they did the first time it slipped.

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Working with engineers rather than around them

For a technical project manager we probe how they size work with a dev team, handle a spike, and talk about a system without pretending to be an engineer.

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English in a live conversation

Scored on clarity and confidence while talking, because most of this job happens in a meeting with somebody who outranks them.

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Writing that survives an escalation

The escalation note and the decision log carry the same weight in the screen as the verbal side, since both get forwarded to people who were not in the room.

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Several workstreams at once

Planning, self management, and attention to detail across concurrent projects without letting any of them go quiet for a week.

The requirements we screen against

Area
What we require
Experience
4+ years running delivery on software or client-facing projects
Methodology
Scrum, kanban, or a hybrid, whichever your team already runs
Tooling
Jira, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, or Notion, whichever board your team already runs
Planning
Builds a plan with dependencies and a critical path, not a task list
Reporting cadence
Agrees the update rhythm upfront and holds it, including the weeks with bad news
Risk and escalation
Raises a date risk early, with an option attached to it
Scope control
Writes down the change and what it costs before it lands in a sprint
Working with engineering
Sizes work with the team rather than at them
English
Fluent, scored in live conversation rather than self-reported
Concurrent workstreams
Runs several projects at once without any of them going quiet
Continuous learning
Keeps up as your process and your product change
Degree
No specific degree requirement, demonstrated skill over credentials
Certifications
None required. PMP, CSM, or SAFe where your client or your industry asks for it

“Deverr has done a great job of meeting and exceeding our expectations. What stands out about Deverr is their engineering team's ability to work efficiently without compromising quality.”

Christo Brown, Head of Product, Connect Financial. Five-star review.

Deverr has done a great job of meeting and exceeding our expectations. What stands out about Deverr is their engineering team's ability to work efficiently without compromising quality.

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Christo Brown
Christo Brown
Head of Product, Connect Financial

Deverr built our ingestion and data modeling engine for Shopify data. They built rock-solid infrastructure, were professional, and responsive. True partners in every sense.

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Mubeen Ibrahim
Mubeen Ibrahim
Head of Data, Superbalist

We needed a senior full-stack developer fast. Deverr placed someone in under two weeks who was shipping code by day three. Six months later he's one of our core team members.

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Andrew Love
Andrew Love
Founder, SOVRUN

We couldn't be happier with the full-stack, AI, and WordPress developers Deverr found for us. They saved us a ton of time recruiting and brought in highly experienced developers who fit our culture perfectly, at a fraction of what we'd pay for U.S. developers of the same skill level. 5 stars, I can't recommend them enough.

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Cam Fulton
Cam Fulton
CEO, SearchActions

Alvis.Care started as my garage project, built on Lovable, held together by vision and duct tape. Within a month of bringing on Deverr, they placed Allan as our lead engineer and our code was professionalized and stabilized. Allan took ownership of the team and gave me back time to sell the vision. If you built something real and need it to become a company, this is how you do it.

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Srdjan Stakić
Srdjan Stakić
Founder, Alvis.Care

Deverr is officially the gold standard for scaling a team without the usual headaches. We will never go back to traditional recruiting after seeing how effortless this was.

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Brandon Sheiner
Brandon Sheiner
Founder, Promethean Innovations, Inc

Why teams let us scout
for project managers

Four things that hold on every project management placement we make.

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Project management staffing that does not end at the offer

You get a dedicated account specialist as your point of contact for the hire, and they stay involved once your PM has started.

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Enterprise, SaaS, and procurement already on the bench

The PMs we place have run delivery in all three, so a contract date, a security review, or a client-side approval chain is not new territory for them.

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Live for your standup, not the morning after

Latin America sits one to two hours from US time zones, so planning, standup, and the stakeholder call all happen with your PM in the room.

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Employed in their own country

We handle payroll, benefits, hardware, and compliance across LatAm, so you never open a local entity.

Four steps from first call to first sprint

You interview the shortlist. We handle everything around it.

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  1. 1

    Tell us what is slipping

    Your projects, your stage, your tools, and the people your PM will need to move to get a decision.

  2. 2

    We screen and score

    Candidates go through the structured interview and come back scored, with a shortlist in days.

  3. 3

    You interview two or three

    We handle the coordination. You meet the people, and you pick.

  4. 4

    They pick up a live project

    Your PM takes over a workstream that is already moving and is answerable for it by the end of week one.

Roles that usually sit
next to this one

You can hire software project managers here, and the three roles below come off the same bench.

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Nearshore hiring advice from our team

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Frequently Asked Questions

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How long does it take to hire a remote project manager?

Most placements run one to two weeks from the first conversation to the first day, covering sourcing, vetting, interviews, and onboarding. Tell us on the call if it is urgent.

What is the difference between a project manager and a product manager?

A project manager owns delivery: the plan, the dependencies, and the date. A product manager owns what gets built and why. If it is the second one you need, start on our product managers page.

Can I hire a technical project manager who keeps up with my engineers?

Yes. Technical PMs on our bench work in Jira alongside dev teams, size work with engineers, and run API and integration projects without needing anything translated for them.

Can I hire a fractional project manager instead of a full-time one?

Our placements are full-time roles inside your team. Bring the shape of the engagement to the call and we will tell you plainly whether we can staff it.

Can I hire virtual project managers for more than one squad?

Yes, and we screen for people already running several workstreams at once. If what you are describing is really two full-time jobs, we will say so rather than stretch one person across both.

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Hire a project manager for the delivery you are running now

Tell us which projects are slipping and we will come back with a scored shortlist. Here is what happens after you send the form:

  1. 1
    We review what you sent
  2. 2
    We book a call to go through your projects, your tools, and your dates
  3. 3
    You get two or three vetted candidates to interview
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