Digital Project Manager

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is a world famous brand with offices across the globe.  Within Fender Musical Instruments Corporation’s (“FMIC”) Digital Engineering team, we are helping transform the company with projects including serverless applications, eCommerce, digital infrastructure, mobile apps, artificial intelligence, and more.

An American icon, Fender was born in Southern California and has built a worldwide influence extending beyond the studio and the stage. A Fender is more than an instrument, it’s a cultural symbol that resonates globally.

We are searching for a Digital Project Manager to join our team. A successful person in this role will help guide projects to delivery, including running Agile ceremonies for teams, helping get accurate time estimates from team members, and relaying project status to Executives.

This role may be hybrid based out of our Hollywood, CA office or remote (working on a Pacific time schedule).

Essential Functions:

• Running sprint ceremonies for development teams, including standups, sprint retrospectives, and sprint planning.
• Tracking progress and backlogs through Jira and Confluence, including owning development workflows and the process of how teams do their work.
• Collaboration across multiple cross-functional teams to check in on progress and help resolve any blockers.
• Reporting on status and maintaining a healthy backlog for development teams, helping stakeholders understand current bandwidth levels.
• Additional duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience as a Project Manager for customer-facing digital Engineering teams
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• An understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle, Agile development, and demonstrated ability to help accelerate teams via strong engineering process
• A deep understanding of Jira, Confluence, and the Atlassian toolset
• A strong desire to learn, grow, help our customers in their creator journey, and help our teams become their best selves

About Fender Musical Instruments:

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) is one of the world’s leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors, whose portfolio of brands includes Fender®, Squier®, Presonus®, Gretsch®, Jackson®, EVH®, Charvel®, Bigsby®, and Groove Tubes®, among others. For more information, visit www.fender.com. FMIC offers a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, 401(k), paid time off, and an equipment purchase program to help you get the band back together. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veterans’ status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.

Fender is required by law in certain jurisdictions to include a pay scale in the job posting for this position.  “Pay scale” means the salary or hourly wage range that Fender reasonably expects to pay for this position; it is neither a promise nor a guarantee of the compensation that the successful candidate will receive.  The pay scale for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that Fender considers in making compensation decisions, including, without limitation: skill set, experience, and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.  If this is a remote position, the pay scale disclosed herein may be adjusted further based upon the applicable geographic differential associated with the location from which the successful candidate will work.  Please note that it is not typical for a Fender employee to be at or near the top of the pay scale for their role – especially as a new hire – and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.  Subject to the foregoing, the current pay scale for this position is $70,000 – $110,000