Program Manager (III)

Aquent, a proud partner to a world-renowned technology innovator, is seeking a visionary program leader to drive complex initiatives that span organizational boundaries. This is a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful business, operational, and technical impact at a global scale-transforming ambiguity into clarity and execution into measurable success.

In this role, you will influence senior stakeholders, align diverse cross-functional teams, and ensure the successful delivery of high-visibility programs that shape the future of critical initiatives.

About the Role

As a pivotal program leader, you will own and drive multifaceted programs that extend well beyond your immediate team. You will proactively identify opportunities, structure complex bodies of work, and manage stakeholders to deliver impactful outcomes across business, operational, and technical domains.

This role requires strong judgment, deep domain expertise, and the ability to align senior leaders while navigating ambiguity, change, and competing priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Independently define, drive, and own comprehensive program charters, including scope, timelines, objectives, resourcing, risks, and dependencies for moderately complex initiatives.
• Translate ambiguous program goals into clear, measurable objectives and milestones.
• Determine the appropriate level of program management rigor for each initiative.

• Develop detailed project plans that break initiatives into discrete, stakeholder-aligned phases.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, and constraints to ensure on-time delivery.

• Establish program phasing, metrics, and checkpoints to support continuous improvement and effective resource stewardship.
• Maintain dashboards and reporting to ensure stakeholder alignment, including rationale for program pivots.

• Design and deliver effective program communication strategies, including executive-level and partner communications.
• Serve as the primary program representative, ensuring transparency, clarity, and shared understanding across all audiences.

• Anticipate change management needs and independently develop comprehensive rollout plans, including impact assessments.
• Drive program pivots, monitor adoption, resolve misalignments, and define future change management requirements.

• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders to enable effective, timely decision-making.
• Resolve prioritization conflicts, manage escalations, and maintain momentum across competing initiatives.

• Identify, collect, and analyze the data required to govern programs and inform stakeholder decisions.
• Maintain project trackers, status reports, and dependency management.
• Define governance structures, mitigation strategies, postmortems, and escalation paths.
• Create and implement automated processes to improve execution velocity and monitoring.
• Embed values of Product Excellence, Product Inclusion, and brand trust throughout program delivery.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in Portfolio Management
• Proven Team Leadership and Management capabilities
• Expertise in Continuous Improvement methodologies
• Strong background in Organizational Change Management
• Exceptional Communication and Executive Presence
• Advanced Planning and Program Structuring skills
• Outstanding Stakeholder Management and Influence
• Strong Execution and Governance expertise
• Sound Technical Judgment
• Deep user understanding and empathy

About Aquent Talent

Aquent Talent connects the best marketing, creative, and design talent with the world's most recognized brands. Eligible talent receive access to exceptional benefits, including subsidized health, vision, and dental plans; paid sick leave; and retirement plans with employer match.

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive environment where diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued-and where everyone has the opportunity to grow and thrive.

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