Lead Program Manager, Tech PgMo

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is seeking a Lead Program Manager to oversee a portfolio of complex, high-impact technology programs. This role involves providing leadership to a team of Program Managers and Senior Program Managers, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, and driving execution excellence across multiple initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees a portfolio of complex, high‑impact technology programs, ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities and consistent delivery outcomes across multiple interdependent initiatives
• Governs portfolio‑level risks, dependencies, capacity, and sequencing, balancing tradeoffs across programs to support predictable, high‑quality delivery at scale
• Aligns senior Technology leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders around portfolio priorities, delivery commitments, and outcome‑based decision making
• Owns execution of PgMO governance at the portfolio level, including prioritization, escalation, and decision‑making frameworks, ensuring consistent application across programs
• Evaluates portfolio health and delivery patterns to identify systemic risks, capacity constraints, and improvement opportunities, driving corrective actions and continuous improvement
• Provides people leadership for a team of Program Managers and Senior Program Managers, including coaching, performance management, talent planning, and workforce development in accordance with PgMO and HR guidelines
• Develops program management capability by setting expectations for execution excellence, reinforcing best practices, and scaling PgMO standards, tools, and operating models across the portfolio
• Acts as the primary escalation point for cross‑program delivery issues, resource conflicts, and strategic tradeoffs that exceed individual program or team boundaries
• Partners with the Executive Director, PgMO and senior Technology leaders to evolve PgMO practices, enabling the organization to scale program delivery effectively as scope, complexity, and demand increase
• Maintains and promotes teamwork within the department
• Regular in-office attendance
• Other duties as assigned
• Travel required (~10%)
• Supports our BMI Core Values and cultivates a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in business, technology, or a related field preferred; or equivalent combination of education and significant relevant professional experience
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience leading complex, cross‑functional technology programs or initiatives, with demonstrated progression from program execution to portfolio‑level oversight, preferably within technology, media, or similarly matrixed organizational environments
• Significant experience overseeing multiple interdependent programs concurrently, including responsibility for portfolio‑level prioritization, capacity planning, sequencing, and risk management
• Demonstrated experience leading, developing, and managing teams of program management professionals, including Senior Program Managers, with accountability for talent planning, performance management, and workforce development
• Experience operating at the enterprise or portfolio level, partnering with senior leaders to align strategy, funding, and delivery commitments across multiple initiatives and teams
• Advanced ability to oversee and govern a portfolio of complex, high‑impact technology programs, balancing priorities, dependencies, capacity, and tradeoffs across multiple interdependent initiatives
• Proven ability to align senior leaders and cross‑functional stakeholders around portfolio‑level priorities, delivery commitments, and outcome‑based decision making
• Strong people leadership capabilities, including coaching Senior Program Managers and Program Managers, developing talent pipelines, and scaling program management capability across an organization
• Demonstrated ability to identify systemic risks, delivery patterns, and capability gaps across a portfolio and drive corrective actions and continuous improvement at scale
• Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to synthesize portfolio‑level data into clear, decision‑ready insights, recommendations, and tradeoff scenarios for senior leadership
• Strong judgment and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to balance speed, quality, risk, and long‑term organizational health when making portfolio‑level recommendations
• Deep understanding of program and portfolio governance, including prioritization, escalation, and decision frameworks, with the ability to ensure consistent application across teams
• Ability to scale standards, tools, and operating practices across a growing PgMO, enabling predictable, high‑quality delivery as complexity and demand increase
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to produce portfolio‑level analyses, dashboards, and executive materials