Marketing Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Campaign Execution: Lead the end-to-end operational execution of small-to-mid-sized marketing programs across multiple channels, including paid media, owned & operated (O&O) platforms, social, web, email/CRM, and experiential activations.
• Senior PM Support: Collaborate closely with Senior Marketing Program Managers to manage project plans, track milestones, and coordinate deliverables for Yahoo's highest-profile vertical campaigns.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Act as an operational connector across Brand, Product Marketing, Lifecycle/CRM, Media, Social, Analytics, Legal, Creative, and Production teams to ensure cohesive campaign execution and consistent brand storytelling.
• Timeline & Task Management: Build, maintain, and enforce detailed project timelines, workflows, and task dependencies using enterprise project management platforms (e.g., Asana, Jira, Airtable).
• Upstream Dependencies: Partner with Media & CRM execution teams to track asset requests, coordinate submission deadlines, and ensure production dependencies are met ahead of campaign launch dates.
• Status & Reporting: Own status tracking and campaign health reporting, ensuring all cross-functional stakeholders have visibility into delivery milestones, blockers, and project timelines.
• Meeting Facilitation: Organize and run tactical alignment meetings, stand-ups, and campaign retrospectives, ensuring action items are documented, assigned, and resolved.
• Stakeholder Management: Drive alignment across cross-functional teams including Marketing, Creative, Production, Media, Analytics, Legal, Product, and external agencies.
• Risk Assessment: Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and operational gaps early in the planning process to ensure successful campaign execution.
• Project Management: Build and manage integrated project plans, workflows, timelines, stakeholder communications, and governance processes, ensuring programs are delivered on time, on brand, within scope, and against business objectives. Track key milestones, budgets, campaign deliverables, and performance metrics across programs.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of dedicated marketing operations, project management, or production experience within an in-house brand marketing team or creative agency.
• Strong understanding of integrated marketing campaign development lifecycles and workflows, spanning from initial creative briefing through multi-channel execution.
• Hands-on experience working within highly collaborative, matrixed environments alongside cross-functional partners in brand, media, creative, and legal.
• Proven proficiency with enterprise project management and workflow collaboration tools such as Airtable, Wrike, Asana, Monday.com, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Strong organizational, verbal, and written communication skills, with an ability to manage competing tactical priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Embrace AI as a core capability to incorporate into their day-to-day workflows. From drafting to analysis and automation, we're building a team that uses AI to accelerate execution and enhance outcomes through the effective use of AI.
• Judgment over automation. AI fluency here means knowing when, where, and how AI should be used. We value strategic thinkers who can distinguish between what AI should accelerate and what requires human creativity, nuance, and accountability.
• Contribute to a culture of learning and innovation by experimenting with AI-enabled approaches, sharing best practices, and helping advance AI adoption across the Marketing organization.
• Familiarity with technical production processes across digital production, social media trends, video formats, and lifecycle marketing mechanics.
• Project management certification (e.g., CAPM, PMP, or Agile/Scrum) is a plus.

Preferred

• Project management certification (e.g., CAPM, PMP, or Agile/Scrum) is a plus.

Benefits

• Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.