Senior Agile Program Lead - Transformation & AI

Publicis Groupe; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Sapient in Chicago is seeking a Senior Manager, Program Management to lead enterprise-scale transformation programs focused on marketing, advertising, insights, orchestration, and AI-driven innovation.

You will steer cross-functional workstreams, build rigorous bottom-up plans, manage governance and risk, and communicate with senior leaders while guiding distributed teams toward measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex programs or large-scale transformations.
• Ability to create integrated bottom-up plans across multiple workstreams.
• Executive communication and storytelling skills.
• Experience with globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead program management activities across one or more complex transformation workstreams.
• Establish and maintain rigorous bottom-up plans with milestones and owners.
• Provide senior client communications and governance updates.
• Collaborate across strategy, technology, marketing, and change management.

Skills

Complex program leadership

Hands-on program management

Executive communication

Integrated bottom-up planning

Risk & dependency management

Stakeholder management

Tools

PowerPoint

Job description

Publicis Sapient in Chicago is seeking a Senior Manager, Program Management to lead enterprise-scale transformation programs focused on marketing, advertising, insights, orchestration, and AI-driven innovation.

You will steer cross-functional workstreams, build rigorous bottom-up plans, manage governance and risk, and communicate with senior leaders while guiding distributed teams toward measurable business outcomes.