Program Manager Brooklyn, New York

UnitedMasters, Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedMasters, Inc. is seeking a Program Manager to join Translation in Brooklyn, NY. This role blends creative insight with rigorous program oversight across multiple client engagements.

You'll structure scopes, timelines, budgets, and delivery systems, while coordinating with internal teams and external partners to ensure on-time, on-budget results. This position emphasizes culture, collaboration, and smart use of AI tools.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a creative agency or similar communications environment.
• Understanding of advertising, marketing, media, production, and agency finance.
• Experience supporting or leading calls with cross-functional teams and interfacing directly with clients.
• Fluent in Google Suite (Sheets and Slides); experience with resource management or workforce planning, as well as project planning tools.
• Strong curiosity with a strong desire to learn and engage AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the how: develop scopes, timelines, budgets, and delivery systems for programs.
• Coordinate internal and external meetings and maintain stakeholder alignment.
• Deliver strategic and creative deliverables to day-to-day clients and manage reports.
• Manage talent allocations and ensure programs are on time and on budget.
• Coordinate internal teams and maintain alignment with overarching strategy.
• Develop a strong understanding of the client’s business, industry, and audience.
• Reinforce team processes and manage documentation and communications.

Skills

Agency experience

Campaign lifecycle

Client facing

AI tools curiosity

Tools

Google Sheets

Google Slides

Resource planning tools

Project planning tools

Job description

We are an award-winning independent creative solutions company that aspires to be the most culturally-influential company in the world. We help ambitious brands harness the power of culture to solve their biggest challenges. As a unique mix of experts in culture, technology, and storytelling, we are united by a passion to grow brands in ways that advertising alone can never do.

We are an entrepreneurial business – not a traditional “ad agency.” That means we value resourcefulness and tenacity just as much as we value creativity and intelligence. We’re unapologetically ambitious!

We are looking for a Program Manager to join Translation!

This role is based in Brooklyn, New York with four days in-office and one day remote.

What You'll Do

• Own the how. Develop scopes, timelines, budgets and delivery systems for programs ranging from complex to “simple.” Don’t assume one size fits all.
• Coordinate internal and external meetings throughout the lifecycle of the program, and maintain close coordination with key stakeholders, including Business Leadership and Production.
• Deliver strategic and creative deliverables directly to day to day clients. Own contact reports, internally and back to the client.
• Manage talent allocations week over week. Work with the Group Engagement Director and Business Leadership to ensure programs are planned to achieve successful completion, including coming in on time and on budget.
• Coordinate internal teams, ensure high quality delivery, and manage back to overarching strategy of the engagement.
• Develop a strong understanding of client’s business and industry, key competitors, and audience demographics.
• Help maintain integrated ways of working by reinforcing team processes and managing documentation and communications.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• A proactive, hands-on mentality. You take immense pride in your work. You’re results-driven and detail-oriented, but also passionate about people, culture, and creativity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly, accurately, and succinctly.
• Stellar time management and organizational skills, able to juggle multiple priorities under tight deadlines without sacrificing quality.
• Thick-skinned, persistent, and diplomatic—you handle challenges with optimism and a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Comfortable navigating across multiple internal disciplines (creative, production, strategy) and external partners to keep projects moving forward.
• An understanding of when toescalate challenges and opportunities to the appropriate leads.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a creative agency or similar communications environment, with a strong understanding of advertising, marketing, media, production, and agency finance.
• Familiarity with the lifecycle of integrated campaigns across broadcast, digital, experiential and/or social.
• Experience supporting or leading calls with cross-functional agency teams and interfacing directly with clients.
• Fluent in Google Suite (especially Sheets and Slides); experience with resource management or workforce planning, as well as project planning tools.
• Strong curiosity with a strong desire to learn and engage AI tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience directly managing timelines and deliverables for creative and production workstreams.
• Exposure to or direct experience with production processes.
• Acted as a producer or account executive in an agency environment with client facing
• A passion for culture, innovation, and helping brands show up meaningfully in the world.

About UnitedMasters, Inc.

UnitedMasters Inc. represents the creative solutions company, Translation, and the leading software and services platform for independent creators, UnitedMasters. UnitedMasters enables ownership, exposure, and new paths for financial return for independent creators, while Translation helps brands leverage the power of contemporary culture to achieve transformational growth. Combined, UnitedMasters, Inc. is the world’s leading marketplace for cultural capital, connecting independent artists and brands to realize a future in which all creators own their future. Backed by Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, and Apple, UnitedMasters, Inc. is reimagining how brands and artists come together to tell their stories, build profitable growth, and push culture forward.

As set forth in UnitedMasters | Translation’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Salary Hiring Range: $70,000 - $90,000

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.).

Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.

The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.

The salary range above is for the NY/CA. As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.