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As a Director, Program Management, you will lead a team of program managers and partner closely with senior leaders across Product, Technology, Operations, Merchandising, Planning, Supply Chain, Finance, Consumer, and Marketplace teams. You will operate as a trusted advisor, facilitator, and execution leader, helping teams align around priorities, navigate complexity, and deliver measurable business outcomes.\nWHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR\nThe ideal candidate is an exceptional program leader who thrives in highly complex environments and can seamlessly operate between strategic discussions and executional details. They are equally comfortable influencing senior executives, facilitating difficult conversations, developing talent, and diving deep into program mechanics when necessary. They bring a strong point of view, sound judgment, and the confidence to challenge assumptions while maintaining trusted relationships across stakeholder groups.\nThey are known for their ability to create order from complexity, accelerate decisions, and help organizations accomplish outcomes that would otherwise be difficult to achieve. They lead with courage, accountability, and an unwavering focus on delivering impact.\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience or training.\n10+ years of program management experience with progressively increasing scope, complexity, and organizational impact.\nProven experience leading large-scale, cross-functional delivery programs involving multiple business and technology organizations.\nDemonstrated success managing and developing high-performing teams.\nExperience influencing and partnering with senior executives and cross-functional leaders.\nStrong expertise in program governance, risk management, dependency management, planning, and organizational alignment.\nAbility to synthesize complex information into concise executive communications, recommendations, and decisions.\nTechnical experience and familiarity with product and technology delivery practices preferred.\nExcellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills.\nThe strongest candidates will demonstrate:\nExceptional leadership presence and credibility at all levels of the organization.\nThe ability to influence outcomes without relying on positional authority.\nStrong business acumen and the ability to balance competing priorities through an enterprise lens.\nA track record of building trust across diverse stakeholder groups with differing objectives.\nCourage to surface difficult truths, challenge assumptions, and drive clear decision-making.\nAn ownership mindset characterized by initiative, resourcefulness, and a bias for action.\nThe ability to move fluidly between strategic planning and detailed execution while maintaining focus on business outcomes.\nA passion for developing people, strengthening teams, and creating environments where others can perform at their best.\nWHAT YOU'LL WORK ON\nAs Director, Program Management, you will lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale marketplace initiatives that span multiple functions, organizations, and leadership teams. You will bring clarity to ambiguity, connect strategy to execution, and ensure teams remain aligned on the decisions, risks, priorities, and actions required to achieve business outcomes. You will serve as an objective, enterprise-minded leader who drives accountability, facilitates critical decisions, and helps teams move faster and smarter together.\nResponsibilities\nLead a team of high-performing program managers responsible for delivering complex, cross-functional marketplace initiatives.\nDrive end-to-end program execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment between strategy, planning, execution, and business outcomes.\nEstablish and maintain program governance structures, operating rhythms, decision forums, and executive reporting mechanisms.\nFacilitate executive steering committees and leadership reviews, ensuring decisions are made with the appropriate context, tradeoffs, and actionable next steps.\nIdentify, assess, and proactively mitigate risks, dependencies, and execution challenges before they impact delivery.\nPartner with senior leaders across business and technology organizations to align priorities, resources, sequencing, and roadmap decisions.\nCreate clarity where ambiguity exists by defining approaches, structuring work, developing plans, and driving progress even when a path forward is not immediately evident.\nFoster a One Team mindset that enables healthy debate, strong partnerships, transparency, and collective accountability.\nElevate program management practices across the organization while continually improving how teams plan, communicate, govern, and deliver.\nWe offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. 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