Program Management Manager (Lead) - Growth Lab - Email

USA (On-site)

$168K/yr – $189K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the governance, intake, and cross-functional leadership for US MPMs, driving scalable delivery through data-backed reviews, talent development, and seamless handoffs across global production.

  • Strategic Governance: Oversee governance and lead executive reviews with Google Marketing to surface risks and plan growth.
  • Team Leadership & Operational Excellence: Mentor MPMs, optimize intake, and drive scalable, automated processes to reduce bottlenecks.
  • Intake, Prioritization, & Stakeholder Navigation: Manage end-to-end intake, balance pipeline against capacity, and guide escalation with US marketing leads.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Governance: Establish and oversee the governance framework for US-based MPMs. Lead high-level business reviews (WBRs, MBRs, QBRs) with Google Marketing stakeholders to communicate performance, surface risks, and plan for future growth
  • Leadership of MPM’s: Formally manage, coach, and develop a team of MPMs. Foster a culture that emphasizes technical marketing expertise, proactive roadblock removal, and stakeholder management
  • Intake & Pipeline Management: Own the end-to-end intake process. Ensure that marketing requirements are gathered with precision and that the project pipeline is balanced against global capacity. Act as the final authority on project prioritization and scope creep
  • Global Partnership & Alignment: Ensure that the "handoff" from US Program Management to Offshore Production is seamless, standardized, and high-quality as needed
  • Operational Excellence: Analyze operating data and project statistics to identify bottlenecks in the campaign lifecycle. Drive the redesign of intake infrastructure to increase scalability and automate manual requirement-gathering procedures
  • Strategic Stakeholder Navigation: Act as escalation point for US-based Marketing leads. Influence marketing strategy by providing data-backed insights into campaign performance, system behavior, and delivery feasibility
  • Career & Organizational Growth: Lead the talent strategy for the US MPM team, ensuring robust training, certifications, and a clear career growth trajectory for team members

Requirements

  • 10+ years of overall experience in managing teams, coordinating projects across multiple organizations/global functional teams with at least 6-8 years in email marketing
  • Deep Domain Expertise in Marketing Automation: Comprehensive understanding of the technical requirements needed for global campaign execution (e.g., audience signals, dynamic content logic, and deliverability governance)
  • MarTech Proficiency: Familiarity with enterprise marketing tools (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Marketo)
  • Expert Stakeholder Management: Proven track record of managing and influencing executive-level stakeholders (Directors/VPs) within a highly matrixed global organization
  • Strategic Pipeline Oversight: Demonstrated ability to manage high-volume project intake and resource capacity planning across multiple business units
  • Business Acumen: Experience in managing operational metrics, capacity alignment, and driving "Business Excellence" initiatives (SOPs, certifications, and process innovation etc)
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