Championship Digital Product Manager

Join a team of proud, passionate, and caring people that together share their diverse talents and backgrounds to serve our members and grow the game of golf.

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The Championship Digital Product Manager leads the development, execution, and optimization of digital fan experiences for PGA of America’s premier Championships, including the PGA Championship, KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, and Ryder Cup.

This role oversees product updates, vendor partnerships, and live event support, ensuring digital platforms engage fans both onsite and around the world.

The manager leads efforts in product testing, analytics, and gamification, continually enhancing the quality and impact of our digital offerings during Championship events.

• Lead the year-round planning, design, business requirements, and testing for PGA of America’s championship web and app experiences.
• Be the primary internal advocate for product development updates.
• Collaborate with the Director, Technical Product and Event Operations to set the annual roadmap, allocate development hours, and drive prioritization of new feature development.
• Oversee vendor relationships, including contract negotiation and management, for key digital products, ensuring effective program oversight throughout each championship cycle.
• Implement analytics tools and practices for effective reporting and impactful data‑driven decision-making surrounding digital products and platforms.
• Regularly meet with revenue operations, partners and content teams, as well as other critical internal stakeholders, to align on short and long‑term product priorities and to ensure that our digital products are consistently meeting organization‑wide objectives.
• Work with internal stakeholders to optimize product concepts and features so they will have impactful commercial value and properly showcase the world‑class brands that the PGA of America partners with.
• Serve as product owner for the championship CMS, coordinating enhancements, maintenance, best practices, stakeholder training, and vendor management.
• Lead the end‑to‑end delivery, execution, and quality of digital products during event weeks, ensuring outstanding digital experiences for fans and partners.
• Proactively explore, propose, and test innovative new products, features, and digital enhancements for PGA events.
• Stay current with evolving sports digital product trends and foster collaborative relationships within PGA Digital and across the industry.
• Elevate the digital presence of  and member‑focused platforms/channels, especially during championships and via member events.
• Oversee and mentor seasonal interns, assigning impactful product‑focused tasks and maximizing their development and contributions.
• Maintain, elevate, and analyze user feedback and internal testing efforts to inform ongoing product improvements.
• Lead digital product optimizations for key platforms (web, iOS, and Android) by analyzing opportunities and user data to drive improvements.

Employees are expected to contribute to a respectful and inclusive team environment by welcoming and respecting others’ beliefs, backgrounds, identities, abilities, and individuality to help ensure a supportive and engaging experience for Association Members, partners, customers, and guests.

PGA of America respects the uniqueness of each employee and offers everyone the means to find their place and thrive.

Embody the organization’s shared values and help ensure the organization’s values‑based culture thrives by proactively identifying and addressing any shared values, challenges and opportunities you are experiencing.

No supervisory responsibilities.

Assist with department program budget management including budget tracking for specific vendors, and input into the budget system.

Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.) in Marketing, Business, Media, Communications, Sport Management, or related field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Four years of experience in digital sports media, with…