Lead Strategic Program Manager

At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem.

Please note that Digital Turbine is a hybrid work environment – only candidates local to the posting location will be considered.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Strategic Program Manager to oversee strategic programs for Digital Turbine’s corporate-wide initiatives. This role focuses on collaborating with key stakeholders to understand, document, articulate and execute against quarterly and annual commitments aligned to our strategic initiatives.

As a Lead Strategic Program Manager, you will operate as a thought leader, ensuring that corporate Objectives and Key Results (KRs) align with Commercial and Product team objectives, priorities and delivery timelines. This role requires deep cross‑functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Commercial, and Operations teams to optimize execution and deliver value at scale.

• Own multiple strategic programs throughout the entire lifecycle, from concept to closure
• Partner and collaborate closely with senior leadership to clearly and concisely develop objectives and timelines that map out a clear path to delivering against our Objectives and KRs
• Identify Risks, Issues and Mitigation plans that provide leadership with a proactive view of potential obstacles and approaches to overcoming those obstacles

• Monitor and adjust planning against objectives as necessary based on progress against goals and current constraints
• Act as a single point of program visibility and accountability for leadership and product teams balancing competing priorities across regions and business units
• Continuously work to resolve, mitigate and escalate risks and issues to ensure programs stay on course to meet corporate objectives

• Establish a governance and reporting framework for programs, ensuring key stakeholders stay informed of progress and dependencies within other teams and overall progress of the program
• Build and maintain dashboards and executive summaries highlighting progress towards key milestones and delivery status
• Support quarterly and annual planning cycles to report progress and adjust plans as‑needed based on business drivers
• Scope:
  Leads program efforts with impact across global teams, product roadmaps, and monetization strategies
• Decision‑Making:
  Operates with high autonomy, balancing strategic needs with internal resource and delivery constraints
• Leadership:
  Provides thought leadership across cross‑functional and global teams
• Manages multi‑region, multi‑team programs with high visibility and strategic importance

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s/MBA preferred)
• 8+ years experience working within software solutions companies or clients in a portfolio/program management, strategic consulting, or similar role
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute strategic initiatives, bringing structure to ambiguous problems and aligning with business objectives
• End‑to‑end program management experience, with a track record of delivering quantifiable business impact
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex topics to a variety of audiences, from team members to executive leadership
• Extensive experience managing dependencies and aligning priorities across numerous cross‑functional teams with varying priorities in a fast‑paced, dynamic tech environment
• Familiarity with the AdTech, Mobile and/or telco carrier and OEM industries
• Technical acumen:
  • Sufficient understanding of the software…