Senior Program Manager, Product and Marketing Operations
Summary
Senior Program Manager builds and optimizes planning, performance, and operational systems for Product and Marketing teams, leveraging AI and automation to streamline workflows and improve decision-making.
Planning Systems
- Build and run the infrastructure supporting annual planning, quarterly planning, roadmap reviews, and planning cycles.
- Create planning templates, planning calendars, dependency trackers, executive rollups, and portfolio cross-cuts that help leaders identify gaps, overlaps, sequencing risks, and capacity constraints.
- Build the workflows, reporting, and automation that keep planning running smoothly before, during, and after each planning cycle.
- Continuously improve planning systems as organizational needs evolve.
Performance Systems
- Build and run the OKR operating system, including templates, reporting, status collection, executive summaries, and review cycles.
- Build KPI dashboards, scorecards, and reporting that provide visibility into priorities, progress, organizational health, and business performance.
- Create a consistent operating model for evaluating cross-functional initiatives and integrated marketing moments.
- Automate recurring reporting and executive rollups wherever possible while continuously improving the quality and usefulness of insights.
Operational Leverage
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate recurring work across Product and Marketing.
- Design and implement AI-enabled workflows that reduce manual planning, reporting, documentation, and coordination.
- Build reusable templates, tooling, documentation, and automations that improve consistency and reduce operational overhead.
- Drive adoption of new systems through enablement, feedback, and continuous improvement.
- 8+ years of experience in program management, strategy & operations, marketing operations, product operations, business operations, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience building and operating planning systems, reporting systems, or other cross-functional operating infrastructure.
- Proven ability to translate strategic direction into scalable workflows, systems, and organizational adoption.
- Experience driving complex cross-functional initiatives from concept through operationalization in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to improve decisions and influence stakeholders.
- Exceptional cross-functional leadership skills and ability to influence without direct authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level reporting and recommendations.
- Demonstrated fluency with AI-enabled workflow design, automation, and process improvement, with experience applying AI to improve operational scale and efficiency.
- Experience building or scaling a PMO, Product Operations, Marketing Operations, or Strategy & Operations function.
- Experience building planning systems, OKR systems, executive reporting, or organizational operating mechanisms.
- Familiarity with product development lifecycles and marketing operating models.
- Experience designing dashboards, executive reporting, or planning tooling.
- Experience leveraging AI to redesign workflows and improve organizational efficiency.
Y Combinator 