Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Publicis Groupe is hiring a Senior Technical Product & Program Manager to connect pre-sales solution development with technical product definition and program delivery. The role translates client needs into requirements and executable programs, leads cross-functional technical delivery, and ensures engineering progress and quality align with promised solutions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with pre-sales and solution leads to understand client needs, define use cases, and shape technically credible, differentiated solutions
- Build business cases with cost/benefit trade-offs, credible value claims, delivery assumptions, and measurable success criteria
- Develop client- and executive-ready supporting materials, including pitch and proposal content, solution narratives, architecture and workflow overviews, demos, and roadmaps
- Present and position each technology solution’s unique selling proposition (USP), business value, and technical approach in client pitches, workshops, and stakeholder reviews
- Ensure proposed capabilities, timelines, and proof points accurately reflect development maturity, distinguishing current functionality from planned capabilities
- Own functional requirements documents (FRDs), translating business needs into use cases, workflows, integrations, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria
- Partner with Product Managers and technical leads to shape product requirements documents (PRDs), priorities, product roadmaps, and release plans
- Keep client commitments, functional requirements, engineering deliverables, and testing standards aligned
- Lead complex, cross-organizational programs from technical scoping and system design through stakeholder alignment, implementation, and production rollout
- Architect and scale services, balancing program vision, business needs, and technical constraints
- Break complex challenges into practical workstreams, prototype with technologists, and coordinate timely, structured engineering delivery
- Manage delivery across cloud, APIs, automation, data, and AI platforms, advancing AI systems from proof of concept to MVP and production readiness, including inference and model tuning
- Collaborate with Program Managers, Product Managers, engineers, and business stakeholders across Publicis Groupe entities, including MRCL AI, Publicis Production, and media and creative agencies
- Build strong partnerships across adjacent teams, working with finance, legal, and senior leadership to align priorities, dependencies, and execution
- Provide rigorous, data-driven reporting on status, milestones, risks, and decisions for business and technical audiences
- Keep pitches, demos, and technology claims aligned with engineering progress and solution readiness
- Identify risks, technical gaps, and trade-offs; develop pragmatic mitigation plans and recommendations
- Validate engineering progress against FRDs, agreed technical and quality standards, acceptance criteria, and production-readiness checkpoints
- Own programs end-to-end, pivoting as needed while preserving creative integrity, technical viability, and the intended business value
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in technical product or program management working directly with software engineering teams
- 3+ years of software development experience
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional technical programs, build processes, and coordinate testing and release schedules
- Experience developing FRDs and functional specifications, shaping PRDs, and evaluating system-level technical designs
- Experience developing and executing product and technical roadmaps
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, including business cases, solution materials, and reporting to senior leadership
- Proficiency in program management methodologies and agile workflows
- Experience supporting pre-sales, solution consulting, client pitches, proposals, business cases, or technology demonstrations
- 5+ years of experience in scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and critical path management preferred
- Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million-dollar businesses preferred
Benefits
- Medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
- For regular roles: medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off.
- Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in the freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met.
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