Program Manager III

Do you love new ideas and look to improve the world in ways big and small?

How will you make a difference to PMI? PMI is looking for a senior-level marketing program leader who is responsible for driving strategic alignment, organizational transformation, and operational excellence across high-impact marketing initiatives. This role oversees complex, multi-dimensional marketing programs—often global or enterprise-wide in scale—ensuring they are aligned with corporate priorities and deliver measurable business value. The Program Manager III is a trusted advisor to senior executives, a mentor to peers and junior staff, and a catalyst for innovation in how marketing is planned and executed. This role requires strong leadership, vision, and the ability to influence across functions and levels.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Own the strategy, planning, and execution of enterprise-level and Tier 1+ marketing initiatives, driving alignment across global teams, business units, and executive stakeholders. Set long-range program goals tied to business growth and market expansion.
• Partner directly with senior executives and business leaders to ensure marketing programs align with strategic objectives. Facilitate decision-making, investment prioritization, and executive steering forums.
• Lead complex change management initiatives that elevate marketing performance, agility, and scalability. Champion the adoption of modern marketing and project management practices across the organization.
• Build and lead marketing program portfolios with rigor around governance, risk mitigation, prioritization, and performance tracking. Facilitate strategic reviews to ensure investment alignment and outcome realization.
• Architect and lead end-to-end go-to-market (GTM) frameworks for major product launches and enterprise initiatives. Integrate customer insights, competitive intelligence, and cross-functional collaboration to drive market impact and ROI.
• Oversee large-scale resource planning to ensure optimal utilization across marketing programs. Lead reporting tied to business outcomes.
• Design and implement scalable marketing operations models, governance frameworks, and technology roadmaps that enable greater efficiency, transparency, and strategic alignment.
• Define and track KPIs at the portfolio level, identifying insights to enhance marketing performance and stakeholder satisfaction. Lead retrospectives and post-mortems for key programs.
• Represent marketing in enterprise-level initiatives that cross organizational boundaries. Act as a strategic liaison between marketing, product, sales, operations, and corporate functions.
• Lead high-priority, executive-sponsored projects or turnaround efforts that require senior expertise and broad cross-functional alignment.

Role Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Strategy, Operations, Project Management, Psychology, or another relevant field. Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years in marketing program or project management, with a demonstrated track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives at scale.
• Proven experience working with and influencing senior/executive leaders.
• Expertise in marketing strategy, go-to-market planning, and organizational change.
• Deep understanding of modern marketing operations, tools, and metrics.
• Strong leadership, facilitation, and communication skills across all levels.
• Expertise in project/program management, including resource bandwidth and capacity allocation, timeline and deliverables management, streamlining and scalability approaches, and partner/stakeholder management.
• CAPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, and/or other related project management and/or Agile credentials are required.
• Demonstrated success in project, program, and portfolio management, with highly developed planning and integration skills from an enterprise perspective.
• Demonstrated success in cultivating and sustaining relationships with Boards, senior management, departmental teams, and leaders from diverse geographic and cultural environments/locations.
• Record of accomplishment of positive business change and results in building, implementing, launching, streamlining, and optimizing new governance models, workflows, and processes.
• Superior prioritization and organization skills with a keen eye to detail.
• Experience in B2B and B2C strategic and creative environments, working with and managing internal resources and external agencies, contractors, and vendors.
• Successfully process abstract verbal and written information to support program strategy, direction, and implementation of action plans, with demonstrated analytical, problem and decision-making abilities.
• Excellent emotional intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Possess leadership and teaming skills and the ability to drive for results.
• A positive, adaptive, curious, and proactive approach to responsibilities, with demonstrated ability to simultaneously plan, manage, and execute multiple projects in an agile and dynamic customer-centric environment.
• Excellent writing, communication, collaboration, interpersonal, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Proficiency in the business language for PMI (English)

What you can expect from us

We value and nurture an environment of inclusivity and diversity, and a culture of communication and collaboration. Your health, safety and well-being come first, and we believe that you should have time for your work, but you should also have time for you..

Join us and you’ll get:

• an excellent total package, with compensation and benefits based upon your geographic location.
• skill development opportunities, to help you grow now and into the future.
• access to a global network, to enrich your professional experience.
• flexible options to help balance work time and your time
• award and bonus opportunities.

The salary offer will be based on several factors, including the candidate’s demonstrated skills, qualifications and relevant experience.

Let’s help make the world work better for everyone. Apply today!

Project Management Institute, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.