Lead Program Manager (PMO)

About the role

Product and Engineering at MUBI now span many teams and several time zones, and the work that crosses those boundaries - the launches, migrations and multi-team programs - has outgrown our ability to coordinate it informally. This is our first dedicated program management hire and the founding role in our new Project Management Office (PMO). It's a build-it role: you won't inherit a playbook or a team. You'll earn trust by personally driving our hardest cross-functional programs, learn where the real friction lives, then codify what works into lightweight standards the organisation actually wants to use. It's an individual contributor role today, with the potential to build and lead a small team as we scale. We're allergic to process for its own sake, so the bar is rigour without bureaucracy. Where You'll Have Impact In your first months, you'll take direct ownership of our most important cross-functional programs - the kind that touch multiple product and engineering teams, have real deadlines, and break down without someone holding the whole picture. You'll set clear milestones, map dependencies, surface and drive risks, and unblock teams before they stall - while giving leadership a crisp, honest read on where every program stands and what needs a decision. As you build credibility through delivery, you'll grow the role into a lightweight program management practice: the small set of shared standards, rituals and reporting that make cross-team work predictable - introduced bottom-up from observed pain, not imposed top-down. You'll define what "good" looks like for how we run programs at MUBI and bring engineering and product leaders along with you. Throughout, you'll be the connective tissue between product, engineering, marketing, content/programming, and leadership across London, New York and our other remote teams - translating between technical and business contexts, and making sure the right people have the right information at the right time. Concretely, you'll: Lead complex, cross-functional programs end to end, partnering with Product & Design, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Business Development, Content & Programming, and Legal. Translate strategic goals into executable roadmaps with measurable milestones, mapped dependencies, and resourcing. Proactively manage risks and blockers, and keep delivery on track. Establish communication standards and a review cadence that enable effective, data-driven decision-making. Prepare actionable status updates and present recommendations to senior leadership. Stand up the PMO function from the ground up, introducing the program management practices and frameworks that improve how we deliver.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in program management, with a proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives to delivery.
• Familiarity with software delivery workflows and the challenges of developer productivity in a scaling organisation.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• A self-starter who brings organisation an

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Additional Information

About MUBI MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema. To make this possible, we create, curate, acquire and champion visionary films, bringing them to audiences all over the world. We have a team of brilliant, dedicated and passionate people to help bring our mission to life. From London to New York, Istanbul to Paris, and Berlin to Mexico - we work together to realize MUBI's vision. That's where you come in! Join our global team and help us make great cinema accessible to everyone, everywhere.

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