Project Manager
Worldwide Golf · Santa Ana, CA · 1 wk ago
Information Technology$80k–$120k/yrFull-time
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end project management activities, overseeing the full project lifecycle from initiation to closure, ensuring strict adherence to budgets, timelines, and key milestones.
- Keep the stakeholders, customers, System Integrator partners and team members informed on project status and in-sync with the latest development schedule and priorities – no surprises!
- Facilitate seamless collaboration across multiple technical and non-technical teams, identifying and breaking through blockers to improve process and communication.
- Oversee the implementation of new solutions, feature enhancements, bug fixes, and operational reporting, coordinating backlog items and ensuring timely delivery.
- Report on project progress to stakeholders and executives, providing both detailed and high-level summaries, and manage project success criteria and metrics.
- Evaluate existing methods and drive continuous process improvements.
- Facilitates the current sprint daily scrum, storyboard maintenance, sprint demos and retrospective ceremonies.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to refine and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Track team performance through key metrics (e.g., velocity, sprint burndown) and use data to drive improvements.
- Secure acceptance and approval of deliverables from the project sponsor and stakeholders, ensuring project objectives and performance standards are met.
Required Skills
- Project Management of large projects e.g., $500k+
- A strong track record of delivering projects across cross functional areas, including Store Operations, Marketing, Merchandising, IT & Development, Customer Service, Warehouse and Finance
- Technical proficiency in key relevant areas (applications, APIs, and databases).
- Broad familiarity with e-commerce systems, cloud-based infrastructure, and emerging technology areas
- Candidate should be able to articulate their understanding about project management methodology and stage gates, core components of a PM role (e.g., risk and issue management, managing scope, schedule, budget)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Required Experience
- MS/BS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of Project Management experience; preferred in retail
- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master in a software development environment
- Experience working with business stakeholders at all management levels to gather, document, and translate functional and technical requirements into Project Charters and manage project plan.
- Strong background in organizing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), developing test plan templates, and coordinating issue resolution during manual and/or automated testing processes
- Proven ability to lead projects using Waterfall methodologies
- Experience with modern software delivery methodologies, including DevOps, Agile/Scrum, integration, and automated functional and performance testing.
- Experience in Smartsheet, Jira and Confluence
Preferred Experience
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environment, able to help with the introduction and adoption of Agile values, principles, methods, and practices
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications
- Experience with E-commerce re-platform
Who We Are
Worldwide Golf is a privately-owned, multi-brand specialty golf retailer that has been in business over 50 years. As one of the top golf companies in the US, we operate 100+ stores in 25+ states, and multiple e-commerce sites under well knowns brands, including:
- Roger Dunn Golf Shops
- Edwin Watts Golf
- The Golf Mart
- Golfers' Warehouse
- Van's Golf Shops
- Uinta Golf
- Las Vegas Golf Superstore
- Golfdom
- Mike's Golf Outlet
- Cool Clubs
- Golf & Ski Warehouse
- WorldwideGolfShops.com
- GlobalGolf.com
- Fairwaystyles.com
- Getclubs.com
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Pay Range
The pay range for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 per year. Individual starting pay within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.