Program Director

Program Director

Position: Full-time

Location: Remote

OVERVIEW

Movement Strategy is seeking a Program Director to provide leadership over integrated program operations across complex, multi-pod client ecosystems. This role is responsible for driving operational excellence, scalability, and strategic alignment across the agency’s largest and most sophisticated programs.

As a Program Director, you operate as a strategic partner to executive leadership, Pod Leads, and senior client stakeholders. You shape how work flows through the agency by designing durable systems, evolving governance models, and proactively guiding teams through complexity, growth, and change. You bring a long-range, enterprise-level perspective that looks beyond delivery to sustainability, margin health, and client impact.

This role is ideal for a leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy, operations, and people leadership. Someone who brings clarity to ambiguity, elevates teams through influence, and understands that strong operational foundations enable breakthrough creative.

A BIT ABOUT US

Movement Strategy creates content and campaigns for the world’s most exciting brands. We win awards, make headlines, shatter engagement numbers and celebrate the journey along the way. It’s why companies like Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, and Intuit come to us again and again.

We’re fully remote with hubs in New York, Denver, and LA, and a presence all across the US. We believe collaboration is what takes our work from good to great, and at times, even to legendary status. We champion diverse opinions and creativity in every department, and provide professional development and learning opportunities with the goal of helping you discover your best work today, and learn how to make it even better in the future.

KEY FOCUS AREAS 

Program Leadership

• Provide leadership and strategic oversight across multiple pods, business units, or enterprise-level programs, ensuring alignment to agency standards, long-term goals, and client objectives.
• Own program architecture across scopes, timelines, budgets, and resourcing, ensuring scalability, sustainability, and operational rigor.
• Anticipate and manage interdependencies, risks, and capacity needs across large, multi-workstream programs.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Pod Leads, Group Leads, and executive stakeholders on program health, prioritization, and delivery strategy.
• Establish and evolve best-in-class program management frameworks that support agency growth and complexity.

Cross-Pod Collaboration & Governance

• Act as senior operational authority across pods, setting clear expectations for intake, workflow, resourcing, and delivery standards.
• Design and lead program governance models, including executive-level reporting, health metrics, and performance reviews.
• Serve as the highest-level escalation point for complex delivery, resourcing, or cross-functional challenges, driving resolution and accountability.
• Ensure consistent application of tools, processes, and ways of working across programs while allowing flexibility for creative excellence.
• Partner with department leaders to continuously refine operating models as client and agency needs evolve.

Strategic Enablement & Stakeholder Partnership

• Connect strategy, execution, financials, and resourcing into a cohesive program vision that supports both client outcomes and agency goals.
• Lead program-level planning for quarterly and annual roadmaps, business reviews, and growth opportunities.
• Partner closely with senior client stakeholders to ensure alignment, transparency, and long-term trust.
• Influence agency-wide decision-making related to integrated delivery, operational scalability, and client leadership models.
• Mentor senior leaders and Pod Leads on program strategy, operational decision-making, and risk management.

QUALIFICATIONS 

• 8+ years of experience in integrated program management, operations leadership, or delivery within a creative, digital, or social-first agency.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale, multi-pod or enterprise-level programs for complex client organizations.
• Proven ability to operate at both strategic and executional levels, influencing outcomes across teams without direct authority.
• Expertise in operational design, governance, financial stewardship, and cross-functional leadership.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate effectively with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Fluency in tools such as Asana, Airtable, and program-level reporting dashboards.
• Experience in social, creative, or integrated marketing environments is strongly preferred.

IDEAL QUALITIES                                                                   

• Systems-thinker who can zoom out to see the full program ecosystem while staying aware of details that impact delivery.
• Collaborative, proactive, and energized by solving complex operational challenges.
• Respected partner across creative, strategy, account, influencer, data, and operations teams.
• Strong communicator who brings clarity, calm, and confidence to fast-moving situations.
• Passionate about improving processes in ways that elevate creative excellence — not hinder it.
• A connector and facilitator who ensures teams feel supported, informed, and empowered.

Benefits & Perks

Movement Strategy’s approach to the future of work: We embrace a remote culture and empower our employees to work wherever they feel most productive. To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have a partnership with WeWork which allows our employees to have a membership to any location nationwide. 

As a leader in social advertising, we rely on the creativity of our people to deliver the best work for our clients. In return, we invest in our employees by offering them a diverse suite of benefits from best-in-class carriers, with enough choice and flexibility to keep our team and their families healthy and happy today and tomorrow.

• 100% employer contribution for health (base plan), vision, and dental
• 401K Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Short and Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance & AD&D
• Paid Parental Leave
• Fully-Remote Agency
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Take-As-You-Need Paid Time Off
• Take-As-You-Need Paid Mental Health Days
• 10 days minimum required off per year
• Company Paid Holidays
• Week-Long Winter Agency Closure
• Support for continued education
• New Business Referral Bonus
• Movement Journey Program -  Stipend for personal growth
• Health and Wellness Program
• WeWork Membership 
• Positive Impact and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committees 
• Employee Resource Groups

SALARY & COMPENSATION

In compliance with local and state law, we are disclosing the compensation for roles that will be performed in New York City, Colorado, and California. The range listed is just one component of Movement Strategy’s total compensation package for employees.  Individual compensation varies based on location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. 

A successful applicant’s actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, skill sets, years of relevant experience, qualifications, and certifications or other professional licenses held. Movement Strategy prides itself on providing competitive salaries and actively works to ensure there is pay equity across the company. 

Pay Range: $125k - 150k

Movement Strategy is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they check every single box. Movement Strategy is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages those from historically and systemically marginalized communities to apply. 

We believe that what we put out into the world matters. And since we were founded on the principles of paving our own path, we take bold steps toward what we believe is the right direction. This means addressing the big stuff: the systems of inequality that impact some of us far more than others. As culture creators, we firmly believe we have a responsibility to our colleagues, clients, communities, and the industry to live up to the Movement’s name. We confront inequities head-on as they come, knowing that this work is never done and that we must keep the momentum.