Senior Programme Manager (Business Operations & Strategic Partnerships)

Job Description

Location - Must be on East Coast time zone USA

Remote

I'm partnered with an ambitious, high-growth technology business, a leading image and video platform, empowering brands to deliver fast,engaging digital experiences at scale.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Programme Manager to support the aggressive growth and lead the delivery of strategically important partnership initiatives with a leading cloud provider in the East coast of America.

This isn't a traditional project management role.

You'll sit at the centre of the business, working with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Revenue Operations and Finance to turn ambitious partnership strategies into commercially successful launches.

Many of the processes, operating models and ways of working are still being defined. We're looking for someone who thrives in that environment—someone who enjoys bringing clarity to complexity, aligning senior stakeholders and driving execution where others see ambiguity.

If you're motivated by outcomes rather than governance, this is an opportunity to make a genuine impact.

What you'll be doing

• Leading complex, cross-functional strategic programmes from concept through to business launch.
• Bringing together Product, Engineering and Commercial teams to deliver new partnership capabilities.
• Designing practical operating models, governance and business processes that enable growth.
• Building alignment across senior stakeholders in an international environment.
• Managing dependencies, risks and priorities to keep delivery moving at pace.
• Acting as the connective tissue between technical delivery and business readiness.

What we're looking for

You'll come from a SaaS, Cloud or enterprise software environment where you've led large, cross-functional programs involving multiple business functions.

You'll bring:

• Significant experience leading complex, business-critical transformation or strategic programmes within a SaaS, software or technology-led organisation.
• Demonstrable experience personally establishing a programme from scratch , including designing governance, delivery frameworks, reporting structures and accountability mechanisms.
• Proven track record of owning programmes end to end , from initial definition and mobilisation through execution and successful launch.
• Strong understanding of technical product delivery, platform integrations, software development lifecycles and cross-functional dependencies.
• Experience managing programmes involving external technology partners, third-party integrations or delivery milestones outside direct organisational control.
• Ability to influence senior executives, challenge stakeholders and secure delivery commitments across multiple business functions.
• Highly structured approach to programme management, with strong proficiency in planning, dependency management, risk mitigation and executive reporting.
• Comfortable operating independently in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with limited existing processes or infrastructure.
• Willingness to remain hands-on, personally developing programme documentation and driving execution rather than relying on an established delivery team.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly, concisely and confidently.

Skills

• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong programme planning and execution capabilities.
• Outstanding communication and facilitation skills.
• Ability to simplify complexity and create clarity.
• Strong commercial awareness and business judgement.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.

Within your first six months, you will have:

• Established an effective delivery framework for strategic partnership initiatives.
• Built strong alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
• Defined and embedded the operational processes needed to support new partnership
• capabilities.
• Successfully coordinated delivery across multiple teams while proactively managing
• risks and dependencies.
• Enabled the successful launch and scale-up of new strategic partnership capabilities.