Program Manager

Aquent; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 60,958 - 67,736; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Subsidized health, vision, and dental plans

Paid sick leave

Retirement plans with a match

Job summary

A leading global innovator is seeking a Program Manager to drive impactful programs from inception to completion. You will independently manage complex programs, collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve business outcomes. Ideal candidates possess strong program management expertise, focusing on stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement. This role provides an opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic organization.

Qualifications

• Proven proficiency in program management within a technical context.

Responsibilities

• Develop program charters encompassing scope, timelines, objectives, and key results.
• Cultivate relationships with stakeholders for effective decision-making.
• Design targeted communication plans for various stakeholders.
• Lead change management efforts with comprehensive rollout plans.
• Proactively analyze data for effective program execution.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define program metrics.

Skills

Communications Management

Team Management

Managing Organizational Change

Technical Judgment

Stakeholder Management

Planning

Portfolio Management

User Understanding and Empathy

Execution and Governance

Continuous Improvement

Job description

Join a leading global innovator as a Program Manager, partnering with Aquent Talent. Drive impactful programs from inception to completion, collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve critical business outcomes. Your expertise in program management will be essential in shaping the future of this dynamic organization.

As a Program Manager, you will independently manage the full lifecycle of complex programs, often extending beyond your immediate team. You’ll be responsible for driving, organizing, and managing program activities that directly contribute to business success. This includes developing systems for proactive improvement, driving optimizations, managing change, and defining key performance metrics. You will tackle undefined cross-functional challenges using your program management expertise to guide stakeholders and navigate evolving circumstances.

Responsibilities:

• Independently develop comprehensive program charters encompassing scope, timelines, objectives and key results (OKRs), resourcing, and risk/dependency assessments. Create detailed project plans with discrete phases, clearly outlining risks, dependencies, and program constraints.
• Cultivate strong relationships with program stakeholders to facilitate effective decision-making. Optimize team roles and responsibilities, and skillfully manage program escalations.
• Design and execute targeted communication plans, ensuring clear and consistent messaging across various stakeholder groups. Represent the program team effectively in a variety of settings.
• Lead change management efforts, developing comprehensive rollout plans, including impact analysis, in close collaboration with stakeholders. Monitor progress, address misalignments, and ensure smooth transitions.
• Proactively identify, collect, and analyze data to effectively execute and govern programs. Maintain meticulous project trackers and status reports. Manage program tasks, dependencies, and risks, incorporating best practices for product excellence, inclusion, and brand trust. Define program governance, including mitigation strategies, postmortems, and escalation procedures. Facilitate productive program team meetings.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define program phasing and metrics to drive continuous improvement and resource stewardship. Establish regular checkpoints to assess progress and provide transparent communication regarding program pivots and their rationale.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• Proven proficiency in Communications Management, Team Management, Managing Organizational Change, Technical Judgment, Stakeholder Management, Planning, Portfolio Management, User Understanding and Empathy, Execution and Governance, and Continuous Improvement within a program/technical program management context.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $44.25 to $49.17 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

Client Description

A giant in the Tech Industry, this company’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This company is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything they do—from how they build their products to how they build their workforce. Consistently named one of Forbes top employers, this company works hard to attract, retain and progress the best Talent.

A career here gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger:

Expanding Opportunity – Providing people with information, tools and services to help them build knowledge, fuel curiosity, and unlock opportunity.
Protecting Users – Keeping billions of people safer online.
Including all Voices – Building a world where progress, equitable outcomes, diversity, and inclusion can be realities both inside and outside our workplace.
Responding to Crisis – Helping those affected by crisis through products, people and partners.
Advancing Sustainability – Unifying practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission — to foster sustainability at scale.

Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.