Sr. Program Manager, IT

• Act as a trusted partner to senior IT leaders, architects, and engineers.
• Lead cross-functional execution across highly technical domains without requiring direct authority.
• Ask the right technical questions to validate scope, sequencing, and feasibility.
• Balance operational stability with forward-looking initiatives and technical debt reduction.

• Own delivery oversight for external vendors, integrators, and technology partners.
• Hold vendors accountable to scope, quality, timelines, and Cosm’s technical standards.
• Identify when vendor delivery is masking internal execution gaps—and address root causes.
• Manage vendor risk, cost, and performance with transparency.

• Serve as the primary program interface for IT leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Deliver concise, decision-oriented updates on progress, risks, tradeoffs, and dependencies.
• Translate complex technical execution into business-relevant outcomes.
• Drive alignment across competing priorities without escalating noise.
• Establish clear visibility into completed initiatives by articulating delivery outcomes and business value (e.g., risk reduction, cost avoidance, operational efficiency, enablement).
• Own executive-facing delivery and value reporting, serving as the single source of truth for Corporate IT execution, capacity constraints, and realized impact.

• Establish pragmatic program governance aligned to Cosm’s scale and pace.
• Standardize delivery practices without imposing one-size-fits-all frameworks.
• Identify opportunities for automation, tooling consolidation, and execution efficiency.
• Lead retrospectives and post-mortems focused on improving future delivery—not blame.
• Evaluate and recommend modern program management tools and best practices to enhance delivery performance.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent program/project management certification preferred.
• 7+ years leading complex IT programs or portfolios in enterprise or operationally critical environments.
• Demonstrated ownership of multi-workstream initiatives spanning infrastructure, endpoint, enterprise systems, or IT operations.
• Proven ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels.
• Experience in live entertainment, venues, hospitality, broadcast, or high-availability environments strongly preferred
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Jira at a program and portfolio level (advanced workflows, dependencies, dashboards).
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT domains (infrastructure, cloud, identity, endpoint, ITSM).
• Comfortable working across Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery models.
• Solid understanding of IT financials, vendor spend, and capacity planning.
• Executive presence with the ability to influence without authority.
• Highly analytical, structured, and decisive.
• Comfortable pushing back when plans are unrealistic or under-scoped.
• Low tolerance for ambiguity without clarity or action.
• Prior hands-on experience in an IT engineering, operations, or service delivery role.
• Strong working knowledge of ServiceNow (ITSM / ITOM concepts).
• Experience maturing delivery practices in growing or transforming organizations.
• Background in environments where downtime, delays, or execution failures have real business impact.

All applicants must be at least 18 years of age at the time of employment.

This requirement is in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local labor laws.

Cosm is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.