Program Manager, Martech Operations & Governance

ShyftLabsToronto, OntarioOn-siteFull-timeStaff, 8–12 yearsListed 2 weeks ago

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About this role

What You'll Be Doing

Intake & Demand Management

- Own and manage a centralized intake process for Martech, analytics, tagging, measurement, tracking, and privacy-related requests.

- Establish standardized request submission requirements, including business justification and supporting information.

- Triage incoming requests and ensure they are routed to the appropriate technical or business teams.

- Define and maintain intake service levels and prioritization frameworks.

- Reduce dependency on ad hoc, email-driven work intake by establishing structured workflows.

- Monitor demand trends and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.

Program Governance

- Establish and manage governance processes across Martech, Analytics, Measurement, and related technology initiatives.

- Maintain visibility across a portfolio of enhancements, investigations, operational requests, and issues.

- Lead recurring governance reviews, backlog prioritization sessions, and operational planning meetings.

- Track dependencies across internal teams, technology partners, vendors, and external stakeholders.

- Identify and escalate risks, blockers, resource constraints, and delivery concerns.

- Ensure initiatives have clear ownership, timelines, priorities, and expected outcomes.

Stakeholder Management

- Serve as the primary communication and coordination lead for operational requests.

- Provide regular status updates to Marketing, Analytics, Product, Engineering, regional stakeholders, leadership, and external partners.

- Coordinate cross-functional discussions across multiple business units, regions, and brands.

- Drive alignment on priorities, timelines, dependencies, and resource requirements.

- Facilitate communication between technical teams and business stakeholders to ensure expectations are clearly understood.

Issue & Incident Management

- Maintain a centralized log of operational issues, data-quality concerns, tagging issues, and other Martech-related incidents.

- Track investigation progress, ownership, dependencies, and resolution timelines.

- Coordinate resolution efforts across internal teams and external partners.

- Manage stakeholder communications during critical data-quality, analytics, tagging, or measurement incidents.

- Ensure root-cause analysis, resolutions, and lessons learned are documented.

- Identify recurring issues and recommend process or technology improvements to prevent future incidents.

Vendor & Partner Coordination

- Coordinate activities and deliverables across Martech technology vendors, implementation partners, agencies, and other external stakeholders.

- Track vendor deliverables, action items, milestones, and dependencies.

- Establish clear accountability for external partners and ensure timely follow-up.

- Escalate vendor risks, delays, and delivery issues when required.

- Support effective collaboration between internal technical teams and external partners.

Reporting & Operational Metrics

- Develop and maintain operational reporting and dashboards covering:

Intake volume and demand

- Open backlog

- Service-level performance

- Request turnaround and resolution times

- Resource utilization

- Vendor performance

- Regional demand trends

- Open risks and escalations

- Provide regular executive reporting highlighting delivery progress, operational risks, unresolved issues, and strategic recommendations.

- Use operational data to identify trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for process improvement.

What You'll Bring

- 7+ years of experience in program/project management, technology operations, Martech, analytics, or related fields.

- Proven experience managing complex, enterprise-scale technology, digital, or marketing programs.

- Strong understanding of Martech and digital analytics , including GA4, tag management, server-side tagging, media tags/pixels, e-commerce tracking, and digital measurement.

- Experience with data collection, tracking, data quality, privacy, consent management, and digital governance.

- Proven ability to build intake processes, prioritization frameworks, governance models, and operational workflows .

- Experience developing dashboards, KPIs, executive reporting, and performance metrics.

- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, dependencies, and competing priorities.

- Experience working with senior leadership, Marketing, Analytics, Product, Engineering, Privacy, vendors, agencies, and external partners.

- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.

- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business communications and drive scalable process improvements.

Salary Range

- $120,000 - $130,000 (CAD)