Senior Shopify Project Lead: Strategy, Scope & Delivery

Drive Digital; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Bonus structure

Job summary

Drive Digital, a Brisbane-based Shopify ecommerce agency, seeks a senior project manager/consultant to lead complex Shopify builds and migrations. You will sit with clients, shape solutions with our senior team, scope properly, and deliver substantial parts yourself without always handing off to developers.

In this role you will manage scope, schedule, budget, and resourcing across design, development, and QA, while mentoring other PMs and advising on Shopify roadmaps aligned to commercial goals.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years hands-on Shopify experience on agency-side or senior in-house roles
• Substantial Shopify Plus experience configuring, scoping integrations and solution decisions
• Ability to implement no-code parts end-to-end and own the whole picture across config, code, data
• Hold senior client credibility and communicate business value in credible terms
• Technically confident with Shopify architecture, APIs and data flows without coding
• Strong consulting instinct and end-to-end Shopify solution ownership
• Commercial judgement to price and scope work with margin in mind
• Direct and clear communication; identify risks early and surface issues with solutions
• Experience with project governance and stakeholder management

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of projects including scope, schedule, budget and outcomes
• Plan and sequence work across design, development and QA with dependencies
• Run day-to-day management using ClickUp and Harvest with clear client and internal reporting
• Manage change requests and scope creep with early variations
• Identify and elevate risk before it impacts timeline or cost
• Coordinate QA and UAT against agreed requirements
• Own release process through go-live and post-launch support
• Mentor junior PMs on scoping, estimation and delivery discipline

Skills

Shopify

Shopify Plus

End-to-end delivery

No-code configuration

Senior client credibility

Commercial judgement

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Client-facing communication

Tools

ClickUp

Harvest

Figma

Slack

Job description

Drive Digital, a Brisbane-based Shopify ecommerce agency, seeks a senior project manager/consultant to lead complex Shopify builds and migrations. You will sit with clients, shape solutions with our senior team, scope properly, and deliver substantial parts yourself without always handing off to developers.

In this role you will manage scope, schedule, budget, and resourcing across design, development, and QA, while mentoring other PMs and advising on Shopify roadmaps aligned to commercial goals.