Senior Technical Product and Program Manager

Company Description

Within Publicis Groupe’s Intelligent Creativity business, we specialize in bringing creative ideas to life, and to consumers. By combining 100 years of craft excellence with 6,000 experts across 52 locations of the world’s biggest studio network, we leverage the industry’s richest data, through the power of agentic AI, to radically redefine content production with Intelligent Content. We intuitively deliver this through Marcel Make, the world’s first Intelligent Content agent. The result? Predictively performing content that unlocks business growth in unprecedented ways. No more guesswork. No more waste. Just content that works, working a lot harder.

Overview

The Senior Technical Product & Program Manager is a technically skilled and strategically minded leader who connects pre-sales solution development with technical product definition and program delivery. Working across creative, product, engineering, and business teams, this role shapes technology, builds business cases, and translates client needs into clear requirements and executable programs for Publicis Groupe clients and internal teams.

The ideal candidate can confidently present a solution’s unique value, support its positioning, and ensure engineering progress and quality reflect what has been promised.

Responsibilities

Pre-Sales Solution Development & Value Articulation

• 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.

Functional Requirements & Product Definition

• 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.

Technical Program Leadership

• 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.

Cross-Functional Coordination & Communication

• 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.

Risk Management & Delivery Assurance

• 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.

What We’re Looking For:

• Technical Depth: You have direct experience with engineering teams and can evaluate system-level designs, integrations, and technical trade-offs with confidence.

• Strategic Communicator: You can present complex technology clearly, position its unique value, and move confidently between client pitches, technical builders, and senior executives.

• Structured Thinker: You bring rigor to ambiguity through business cases, requirements, roadmaps, KPIs, and critical paths that hold up under scrutiny.

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: You thrive without a playbook, balance competing priorities, and take calculated bets to move programs forward.

• Connector: You build relationships across disciplines and organizations, identifying collaboration opportunities that unlock value.

Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred:

• 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.

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Veterans Encouraged to Apply.

Compensation Range: USD $135,375.00 - USD $185,200.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/2/2026.