Project Manager

Edmunds.com • Santa Monica, CA

13d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Edmunds, we are driven to make car buying easier. Since our beginnings in the 60s with printed car guides, we have been in the business of trust, innovating ways to empower and support car shoppers. When Edmunds launched the car industry’s first Internet site in 1994, we established a leadership position online and have never looked back. Now, as one of the most trusted review sites on the Internet, millions of visitors use our research, shopping and buying tools every month to make an easy and informed decision on their next car. For consumers, we bring peace of mind. For dealers, we make tools to help them solve their problems and sell more cars. The key ingredients are our enthusiastic employees, progressive company culture, and cutting-edge technology. Edmunds is seeking an adaptable Project Manager to support delivery for our software development teams. This is a full-time position in a remote-first, hybrid work environment, based in Santa Monica, CA. You will be joining a close-knit Program Management team and reporting to our Director of Program Management to support our Product & Technology departments. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years delivering software projects of high quality, and have the ability to thrive in a dynamic environment where change is both expected and welcomed.

Requirements

• 3+ years project management experience successfully delivering software/web development projects at various stages of the development lifecycle
• Hands-on experience working on teams using Agile scrum and Kanban software development methodologies with cross-functional teams of 5-10 people
• Ability to quickly form strong relationships that enable you to lead through influence rather than formal authority in a matrix organization
• Excellent meeting facilitation skills, with follow-through on decisions/action items
• High comfort level learning concepts quickly, to effectively serve as a translator across technical and business roles
• Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as Google Apps, Atlassian JIRA, and Slack
• Working knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets for basic analysis
• Ability to balance your workload across multiple, competing priorities and threads
• Ability to break down projects into smaller, achievable tasks
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, while using your resourcefulness to ask for help from the right people when you need it.
• Ability to act as an accurate translator across business and technical functions.
• Ability to navigate and adapt quickly to ambiguity and change

Nice To Haves

• You genuinely enjoy working with people and are motivated by helping others succeed
• You embrace change and are excited by the new opportunities that present themselves each time you are asked to learn something new
• You are willing and able to take ownership of tasks big or small, whatever it takes to help your teams get the job done
• People compliment you on your ability to bring order to chaos, to get things done, and your amazing ability to get along with all kinds of people
• You feel a deep sense of responsibility for making sure commitments are delivered accurately and on time

Responsibilities

• Act independently as a project manager for 2-3 cross-functional software development teams
• Support portfolio-level initiatives which may span multiple project teams, with oversight from senior program managers
• Partner with technical and product leads to construct project timelines, conduct planning, and support execution using Agile principles for your projects
• Facilitate key meetings for project teams (e.g. scrums, planning and retrospectives)
• Ensure that blockers are resolved, and communication gaps are plugged quickly and efficiently for assigned initiatives
• Build deep, trusting relationships with all project team members to drive individual team efficiencies
• Collaborate with your team leads on your project teams to refine or establish processes (goals, responsibilities, communication channels, workflow) that set them up for success.
• Act as a champion for your teams to improve process, morale, and productivity
• Guide teams through changes in priorities and milestones at the direction of executive & team leadership for your projects
• Collaborate with the Program Management team at large to support overall resource planning, accounting/capitalization activities, and organize department events
• Demonstrate flexibility in assumed roles to support critical initiatives (Our Program Management team is a service organization, so assignments to your project teams may evolve over time depending on our organizational priorities)

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Comprehensive Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Employees) and Health Savings Accounts (Employee and Employer Contributions)
• 401K Plan with company matching at 100%, up to 6% of eligible salary with immediate vesting
• Stock purchase program
• CarMax vehicle discount
• Up to 4 months Paid Parental Leave
• HeartCash matches employee donations to the causes that are important to them
• 2 Days of Paid Time Off for time to dedicate to social impact causes
• FitCash covers a portion of gym or fitness activity fees
• Well-being sessions
• Employee Recognition Program
• On-going career development opportunities
• Pet insurance
• Sabbatical leave
• Education Reimbursement
• Pre-tax spending accounts for qualified transportation expenses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed