Expression of interest - GESTIONNAIRE DE PROGRAMME - PROGRAM MANAGER

DNEG•Montreal, QC

About The Position

This role is a 12-month maternity leave replacement for a Program Manager within the ADG division. The position reports to the VP of Emerging Tech and is responsible for supporting the division's roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and managing reporting processes for project achievements and resource utilization. The role also focuses on fostering collaboration between ADG, Technology, and Show teams, ensuring clear communication. Key responsibilities include end-to-end program delivery, leadership of project and technical teams, stakeholder management, project supervision, risk mitigation, and portfolio management. The Program Manager will oversee roadmap delivery, contractual and financial governance, and collaborate with the PMO and other technical leaders. Additionally, the role involves supporting production, resource management, and training initiatives, including defining methodologies, managing show communications, allocating resources, assisting with recruitment, and encouraging the adoption of real-time and AI technologies.

Requirements

Experience in program management
Experience in technology project management
Experience managing executive stakeholders and sponsors
Experience with project milestones, schedules, and deliveries
Experience in risk mitigation
Experience in portfolio management
Experience with prioritization of workstreams and resource management
Experience with contractual and financial governance within projects
Experience with time-tracking and documentation maintenance
Experience collaborating with PMO and technical leadership
Experience defining methodology
Experience managing bidding and show communications
Experience deploying real-time and AI capabilities
Experience with resource allocation based on skill sets
Experience with recruiting needs
Experience supporting and encouraging training program development

Nice To Haves

Experience in the media or entertainment industry

Responsibilities

Support the VP of Emerging Tech to maintain the division’s roadmap and ensure it aligns with the overall high level objectives agreed upon with Management.
Manage reporting processes for ADG and company leadership to track project achievements and resource utilization.
Facilitate a collaborative environment between ADG, Technology and Show teams, ensuring clear and effective communication across groups.
Ensure the successful delivery of the end-to-end ADG program, from feasibility review to production delivery.
Provide leadership to the Project and Technical teams, managing executive stakeholders and sponsors across the Business Services and other technology teams.
Supervise all ADG projects from inception to delivery in collaboration with the Project Manager and Coordinator - overseeing project milestones, schedules, and deliveries.
Act as the point of escalation for the teams, mitigating risks, providing guidance, helping with dependencies and blockers.
Lead and take accountability of the program portfolio, taking responsibility for prioritisation of different workstreams and resource management to ensure outputs are in line with business targets.
Primary accountability for Roadmap delivery of the program portfolio, contractual and financial governance within projects (ensuring proper time-tracking and documentation is maintained).
Working closely with the PMO and other Technical leadership to ensure cohesive approach in technical roadmap, leadership, comms and delivery.
In collaboration with the HODs, help define methodology, manage bidding and show comms to deploy realtime and AI capabilities, ensuring full resource utilization.
Support the DPM and HODs to adequately allocate resources on ADG shows based on skill sets.
Support the DPM and HODs with recruiting needs when applicable.
Actively support and encourage training program development to spread realtime and AI adoption.