Program Director

• Lead a Large, Complex Program: Provide clear direction and accountability across a team of 40 to 50 people spanning multiple disciplines and seniority levels.
• Maintain Ground-Level Visibility: Engage across all levels of the team to understand what is actually happening on the program, where real blockers exist, and where delivery risk lives.
• Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Ensure engineering, product, design, and delivery teams are working toward a shared definition of success with clear ownership at every level.
• Champion Continuous Improvement: Continuously identify opportunities to raise the bar on delivery quality, team performance, and ways of working, and drive iterative improvements that compound over time.

• Understand the Commercial Landscape: Maintain a clear understanding of the account's financial structure, including revenue recognition, margin performance, and forecast accuracy, and flag risks before they become problems.
• Make Resourcing Decisions That Serve the Program: Assess team fit and performance continuously, and make the right resourcing calls at the right time to sustain delivery quality and financial health.
• Support Account Growth and Renewals: Stay alert to opportunities for expansion and upcoming renewal conversations, and work closely with the Client Partner to ensure the right groundwork is in place well in advance.
• Exercise Commercial Judgment: Maintain awareness of the commercial implications of commitments, proposals, and client conversations, and partner with the Client Partner when discussions move into commercial territory.

• Build Trust Across the Organization: Develop strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, earning credibility through clear communication, sound judgment, and consistent follow-through.
• Negotiate With Tact and Confidence: Navigate competing priorities, scope pressure, and difficult conversations without losing the relationship, and land on outcomes the program can actually execute against.
• Read the Room: Adapt communication style and approach to the audience and the situation, knowing when to push, when to listen, and when to escalate.
• Hold the Line on Accountability: Set clear expectations on decisions, timelines, and ownership, and address gaps directly with a concrete path forward.

Must have skills

• 10+ years of experience leading large-scale technology services programs in a consulting or agency environment.
• Proven track record managing programs of $5M or more annually with direct accountability for budget, margin, and revenue recognition.
• Experience leading and providing direction to teams of 30 or more people spanning multiple disciplines and seniority levels.
• Strong commercial instincts with the ability to identify risk, protect margin, and support account growth and renewal conversations.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain senior client relationships in complex, high-stakes environments.
• Proven ability to assess team performance and make resourcing decisions that balance delivery quality with financial sustainability.
• Experience establishing clear program direction while building alignment across a diverse and distributed stakeholder group.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to deliver concise and credible updates at the executive level.
• Experience working within Agile delivery frameworks with globally distributed teams.

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• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here !)

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy.

If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week.

The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting.

Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range.

The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc.

With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world.

Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time.

By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24).

Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories.

As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024).

Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects.

Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.