General Information
Position Title: Vice President, Program Management
Practice Area: Program Management & Innovation
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Category: Exempt
Location: New York/Hybrid
Date: September 2025
Salary: $165,000 – $175,000
Position Overview
The 4As is the voice of the agency community across America. The global ad industry is set to pass $1 Trillion in spend this year. The US is set to have $491 billion of that spend. And represent 20% of US GDP. So, to be the voice of the industry is a real and unique honor. The things we do, stand for, and advocate for shape the direction of our industry. Over a 108-year history the 4As has gone from reacting to member organization needs and key industry topics to the organization today which must set agendas, continually represent the broad agency community, and amplify its constituents’ voice in a more complex ecosystem of brands, platforms, creators, technology solutions and clients.
The 4As VP, Program Management is part of the Program Management & Innovation team reporting to the CEO, 4As. This role is responsible for driving success and organization across the 4As providing an integrated organizational rigor that is a support system to the 4As, our member work, and the industry at large. The priority is on best practices, developing and managing processes to unify ways of working. This role and the Program management team ensures the 4As staff are allocated in the appropriate business to optimize growth, develop, implement, and evolve new product lines and the 4As transformation. Initially, this role will be heavily focused on the integrated Pilots and building the minimal viable products, MVP, assisting with documentation, providing support as needed, and working on day to day execution.
Qualities essential to thrive in this role:
- Strong communication and organizational skills in a matrix organization
- Integrated project management experience
- The ability to identify potential problems early
- Competency to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Ability to exercise confidentiality and discretion
Position Responsibilities
Core responsibilities and tasks include:
- Providing hands-on leadership in change management, embedding integrated program management while managing the development, execution and adoption of pilot Minimal Viable Products, MVPs.
- Streamlining workflows, and advancing organizational effectiveness across the 4As.
- Leading a team of project managers working across all programs and associated business for the 4As, as well as leading certain programs directly, to ensure that successful program delivery occurs across the office.
- Being a true partner to the Subject Matter Experts, SMEs, to manage and drive success across all work.
- Partnering with the Senior Leadership Team, SLT, to drive policy, organization initiatives, and platform adoption, ensuring all process roll out in the office is consistent with the initiatives in the network while prioritizing office needs.
- Providing a cohesive and organized change management and risk mitigation process through the Program Management team.
- Managing and mentoring a team of Project Managers, as the team grows, providing guidance on the current work initiatives, training for skill growth, and mentorship for career pathing and opportunity tracking.
- Responsible for project intake, scoping, estimating, and timelines and unifying everything into a cohesive view across office for fast leadership decision making.
- Providing integrated project management excellence throughout a project lifecycle to ensure our work is delivered on time, within budget, and resourced properly- always with a focus on program health and our people.
- Responsible for the financial health of the program and tracking including burn, forecast to complete, oop, billability and more.
- Running a monthly program health meeting across all programs + projects and a quarterly program review process to drive transparency and accountability across the office.
- Ensure proper scoping, staff planning, and provide senior level executive communications on the status of projects/programs and key risks/mitigation plans when needed.
Position Requirements
- 12+ years of Program Management experience in advertising, tech, product, or comparable
- Experience working in an agile environment, are a scrum master, a Kanban expert or similar
- Experience working with CMO level clients across complex programs
- Managed programs with fortune 500 companies
- Managed 8m+ worth of business in a single program (scope, schedule, resources, and budgets from origin to completion) and 15m worth of business across multiple programs at one time
- Experience with risk management and mitigation, tracking project deliverables, large program financial tracking, resourcing cross office or large program resourcing.
- Experience with data led strategy initiatives, customer journey mapping, or similar
About the 4As
A 501(c )(6) non-profit association
We focus on core values of Passion, Agility, Curiosity and Collaboration as we partner together to support and champion 4As members to help their business thrive as we also strive to move the industry forward.
- Great team with strong mission and energy
- Summer Fridays
- Week off between Christmas & New Year Holidays
- Enviable work/life integration
- Volunteer Days
What We Do:
Our mission is to empower and equip our members to confidently navigate the ever-changing ecosystem of the agency world. We ensure they remain relevant, are positioned to compete, and have the resources to thrive and grow. Our promise to our members? We aim to be an indispensable resource that is as accessible as their own agency team.
We are dedicated to, and vested in, our members’ success, just as they are dedicated to helping brands create, distribute, and measure effective and insightful advertising and marketing. And we champion the infinite power of creativity and value agencies bring in driving business growth and powerful cultural change. The 4As drives business. With a focus on advocacy, talent, and impact, we provide community, thought leadership, research, guidance and best-in-class training that enable agencies to innovate, evolve and grow.
The 4As was established in 1917 to promote, advance, and defend the interests of our member agencies, employees and the advertising and marketing industries overall. We empower and equip our members to confidently navigate the ever-changing ecosystem of the agency world. We ensure they remain relevant, are positioned to compete, and have the resources to thrive and grow. With a focus on advocacy, talent and creating impact, the organization serves 600+ member agencies across 1,200 offices, which help direct more than 85% of total U.S. advertising spend. The 4As includes the 4As Benefits division, which insures more than 160,000 employees; the government relations team, who advocate for policies to support the industry; and the 4As Foundation, which advocates for and connects rising talent to the marketing industry by fostering a culture of curiosity, creativity and craft to fuel a more equitable future for the industry.
The 4As is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires and respects all individuals and in which personnel policies are applied without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship or other protected characteristic.
