Product and Agile Management | Senior Agile Program Manager

6021 Connection Drive - 6021 Connection Drive Irving, Texas 75039 United States | Full-time

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Manager, Program Management to join the PMO supporting a large-scale business and technology transformation.

This is a highly hands‑on role for someone who excels at creating structure, maintaining detailed plans, coordinating multiple stakeholders and ensuring that actions and commitments move forward.

The Manager will own the day‑to‑day management of an assigned program or workstream and work closely with senior program leadership, client stakeholders, third parties and globally distributed teams.

Your Impact:

• Own the day‑to‑day program management of an assigned transformation workstream.
• Build, maintain and actively manage detailed bottom‑up project and program plans
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• Track milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies and actions.
• Ensure commitments have clear owners and proactively follow up through completion.
• Coordinate activities across internal teams, client stakeholders, third parties and globally distributed delivery teams.
• Identify program risks and dependencies early and elevate issues appropriately.
• Prepare accurate, concise status reporting for program leadership and client stakeholders.
• Support governance meetings, working sessions and executive reviews.
• Create clear, polished PowerPoint presentations that translate detailed program information into effective client communications.
• Work across multiple program areas while maintaining visibility into interconnected dependencies.
• Help establish and continuously improve PMO processes, tools and working practices.
• Support program leadership with planning, resource coordination and execution.
• Take ownership of assigned work rather than relying on senior leadership to drive routine follow‑up.
• Maintain the level of execution rigor required for a complex, high‑visibility transformation.

Your

Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands‑on project or program management experience.
• Experience managing complex projects or individual work streams within larger transformation programs.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain detailed delivery plans.
• Strong organization and follow‑through with close attention to detail.
• Experience tracking risks, dependencies, decisions, deliverables and actions.
• Strong client‑facing written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience coordinating across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities within a fast‑moving environment.
• Strong PowerPoint and presentation‑development capabilities.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• Ability to operate effectively when requirements or program structures are still evolving.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and comfort escalating issues when necessary.

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Experience supporting AI or Generative AI programs
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• Marketing, advertising, media or consumer‑products experience.
• Understanding of marketing processes, including research and insights, strategy development, campaign planning, content development or measurement.
• Experience with large‑scale business or digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience coordinating offshore or India‑based delivery teams.
• Experience managing external partners or third‑party dependencies.
• Experience in complex consulting environments.

Salary Range: $120,000 - $155,000

The range shown represents a grouping of ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work.

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