Lead Program Manager, Tech PgMo

About the Company
BMI is a mission-driven organization at the forefront of music rights and creator advocacy. Celebrating over 80 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, BMI is a global leader in music rights management. Currently representing the public performance rights in over 25 million musical works created and owned by more than 1.4 million artists. BMI negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are publicly performed.
About the Role


POSITION SUMMARY: The Lead Program Manager (Lead PgM) oversees a portfolio of complex, high impact technology programs and provides people leadership for a team of Program Managers and Senior Program Managers within the Technology Program Management Office (PgMO). This role is accountable for portfolio level execution, ensuring programs are aligned to enterprise priorities, sequenced effectively, and delivered with consistency, quality, and transparency.

Operating at a portfolio scale, the Lead PgM governs delivery across multiple interdependent initiatives, managing cross program risks, dependencies, capacity, and tradeoffs to support predictable outcomes. The role partners closely with senior Technology leadership and cross functional stakeholders to align priorities, enable informed decision making, and resolve conflicts that span teams or programs.

As a people leader, the Lead Program Manager is responsible for developing program management talent through coaching, performance management, and workforce planning. The role sets standards for execution excellence by scaling PgMO governance frameworks, tools, and operating practices, and by reinforcing consistent application across the portfolio.

In addition to overseeing delivery, the Lead PgM plays a critical role in advancing PgMO maturity by identifying systemic improvement opportunities, strengthening execution discipline, and enabling the organization to scale program delivery effectively as complexity and scope increase.

FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB

Essential Functions: which may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position.

Primary Responsibilities
• Oversees a portfolio of complex, high impact technology programs, ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities and consistent delivery outcomes across multiple interdependent initiatives.
• Governs portfolio level risks, dependencies, capacity, and sequencing, balancing tradeoffs across programs to support predictable, high quality delivery at scale.
• Aligns senior Technology leadership and cross functional stakeholders around portfolio priorities, delivery commitments, and outcome based decision making.
• Owns execution of PgMO governance at the portfolio level, including prioritization, escalation, and decision making frameworks, ensuring consistent application across programs.
• Evaluates portfolio health and delivery patterns to identify systemic risks, capacity constraints, and improvement opportunities, driving corrective actions and continuous improvement.
• Provides people leadership for a team of Program Managers and Senior Program Managers, including coaching, performance management, talent planning, and workforce development in accordance with PgMO and HR guidelines.
• Develops program management capability by setting expectations for execution excellence, reinforcing best practices, and scaling PgMO standards, tools, and operating models across the portfolio.
• Acts as the primary escalation point for cross program delivery issues, resource conflicts, and strategic tradeoffs that exceed individual program or team boundaries.
• Partners with the Executive Director, PgMO and senior Technology leaders to evolve PgMO practices, enabling the organization to scale program delivery effectively as scope, complexity, and demand increase.

General Responsibilities
• Maintains and promotes teamwork within the department.
• Regular in-office attendance.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Travel required (~10%).
• Supports our BMI Core Values and cultivates a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.


Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervises multiple Program Managers, including Senior Program Managers. Responsible for people leadership, performance management, coaching, and team development in accordance with PgMO and HR guidelines.

Physical/Visual Activities or Demands: Physical/visual activities or demands that are commonly associated with the performance functions of this job.

• Sitting, standing, stooping, kneeling, talking, hearing, walking.
• Ability to talk, see, hear, concentrate, think, learn and reason.
• Concentrated mental and visual attention with norma