Senior Technical Product and Program Manager

Publicis Groupe is hiring a Senior Technical Product & Program Manager to connect pre-sales solution development with technical product definition and program delivery. The role translates client needs into requirements and executable programs, leads cross-functional technical delivery, and ensures engineering progress and quality align with promised solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with pre-sales and solution leads to understand client needs, define use cases, and shape technically credible, differentiated solutions
• Build business cases with cost/benefit trade-offs, credible value claims, delivery assumptions, and measurable success criteria
• Develop client- and executive-ready supporting materials, including pitch and proposal content, solution narratives, architecture and workflow overviews, demos, and roadmaps
• Present and position each technology solution’s unique selling proposition (USP), business value, and technical approach in client pitches, workshops, and stakeholder reviews
• Ensure proposed capabilities, timelines, and proof points accurately reflect development maturity, distinguishing current functionality from planned capabilities
• Own functional requirements documents (FRDs), translating business needs into use cases, workflows, integrations, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria
• Partner with Product Managers and technical leads to shape product requirements documents (PRDs), priorities, product roadmaps, and release plans
• Keep client commitments, functional requirements, engineering deliverables, and testing standards aligned
• Lead complex, cross-organizational programs from technical scoping and system design through stakeholder alignment, implementation, and production rollout
• Architect and scale services, balancing program vision, business needs, and technical constraints
• Break complex challenges into practical workstreams, prototype with technologists, and coordinate timely, structured engineering delivery
• Manage delivery across cloud, APIs, automation, data, and AI platforms, advancing AI systems from proof of concept to MVP and production readiness, including inference and model tuning
• Collaborate with Program Managers, Product Managers, engineers, and business stakeholders across Publicis Groupe entities, including MRCL AI, Publicis Production, and media and creative agencies
• Build strong partnerships across adjacent teams, working with finance, legal, and senior leadership to align priorities, dependencies, and execution
• Provide rigorous, data-driven reporting on status, milestones, risks, and decisions for business and technical audiences
• Keep pitches, demos, and technology claims aligned with engineering progress and solution readiness
• Identify risks, technical gaps, and trade-offs; develop pragmatic mitigation plans and recommendations
• Validate engineering progress against FRDs, agreed technical and quality standards, acceptance criteria, and production-readiness checkpoints
• Own programs end-to-end, pivoting as needed while preserving creative integrity, technical viability, and the intended business value

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in technical product or program management working directly with software engineering teams
• 3+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional technical programs, build processes, and coordinate testing and release schedules
• Experience developing FRDs and functional specifications, shaping PRDs, and evaluating system-level technical designs
• Experience developing and executing product and technical roadmaps
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, including business cases, solution materials, and reporting to senior leadership
• Proficiency in program management methodologies and agile workflows
• Experience supporting pre-sales, solution consulting, client pitches, proposals, business cases, or technology demonstrations
• 5+ years of experience in scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and critical path management preferred
• Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million-dollar businesses preferred