The opportunity
Our Program Management function plays a vital role in keeping Justworks’ Technology Division – comprising Product, Design, Engineering, and Data – focused and connected. We connect dots and break silos across teams by maintaining an effective operating cadence, managing…
What you'll do
Partner with Technology and Business leaders to identify, assess, and shape: high-priority initiatives before formal program investment decisions are made.
Lead discovery efforts to determine whether emerging initiatives require: dedicated program management support, lightweight operating structures, or alternative execution models.
Establish program foundations for newly formed initiatives, including: governance structures, operating rhythms, stakeholder alignment models, success metrics, and execution frameworks.
Serve as a senior program leadership resource across the Technology: portfolio, deploying into high-priority, high-risk, or complex initiatives to accelerate progress, stabilize execution, or unblock delivery.
Lead multiple concurrent programs and advisory engagements spanning Product,: Engineering, Design, Data, Operations, and other cross-functional business teams.
Assess program health across the portfolio, identifying systemic risks,: execution gaps, organizational dependencies, and opportunities to improve outcomes.
What they're looking for
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in strategy, operations, management: consulting, program management, product operations, business operations, or a related cross-functional leadership role.
- Demonstrated experience leading highly ambiguous, cross-functional: initiatives that span multiple teams, organizations, or business functions.
- Proven ability to translate emerging strategies, executive priorities, or: loosely defined opportunities into actionable plans, operating models, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to evaluate organizational tradeoffs,: investment decisions, operating models, and long-term strategic implications.
- Exceptional systems thinker who can identify patterns, dependencies,: organizational friction points, and opportunities for leverage across complex environments.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and executive stakeholders: without direct authority, driving alignment across competing priorities and perspectives.
- Experience establishing structure where little exists, including defining: ownership models, governance mechanisms, decision-making frameworks, and operating rhythms.
- Strong technical fluency and curiosity, with the ability to quickly develop: expertise in new domains, technologies, products, and business models.
