
Broadcast Program Manager
AGCO Corporation
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bristol • Connecticut • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $130,000 - $160,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
PMP
About the role
- Drive delivery of highly complex, cross-functional technical programs that align with strategic business priorities.
- Lead program planning, roadmap definition, and execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery.
- Manage stakeholder expectations across technical and business domains, providing clear, confident, and tailored communication at all levels.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, providing decision rationale and guidance for both technical and business solutions.
- Facilitate cross-team coordination, ensuring alignment, dependency management, and effective collaboration in a matrixed environment.
- Identify, track, and communicate program metrics and KPIs to guide decision-making throughout the program lifecycle.
- Proactively remove roadblocks, escalate issues, and leverage organizational resources to keep teams moving toward commitments.
- Own risk, dependency, and change management for complex technical programs, including mitigation and contingency planning.
- Champion best practices in program management, agile methodologies, governance, and operational excellence.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leadership, engineering teams, and external partners to drive accountability and outcomes.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience delivering large, strategic technical programs in a matrixed environment
- Demonstrated success driving complex, cross-functional initiatives from planning through launch and stabilization
- Excellent facilitation, verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages to technical and executive audiences
- Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills; able to influence without authority across engineering, product, and business teams
- Proven ability to manage risk, dependencies, and change across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Solid understanding of core technology domains (e.g., infrastructure, networks, applications, data platforms, software engineering)
- Experience with program metrics and analytics; able to define, track, and use KPIs to guide decisions
- Hands-on experience with agile methodologies and program management tooling (e.g., Jira, Smartsheet, Airtable, Confluence)
- Strong financial and business acumen, including comfort with budget, OpEx/CapEx, and ROI tradeoffs
- High ownership, bias for action, and the ability to operate independently with minimal oversight
- Experience leading large-scale build-outs or refreshes of technical facilities, preferably in broadcast or media environments
- Familiarity with broadcast operations and environments such as MCR, PCR, ACR, and REMI workflows
- Knowledge of media platforms and playout/origination systems (e.g., Evertz Mediator) and related signal flow concepts
- Understanding of industry standards and compliance frameworks (e.g., SMPTE, AES)
- Experience managing OpEx/CapEx planning and vendor/procurement processes for complex technical programs
- Background with media and metadata workflows and how they support content production and distribution
- Prior experience in highly regulated or mission-critical operational environments
- Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, PgMP, CSM, SAFe, ITIL, or broadcast/engineering certifications)
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- PTO
- 401k matching
- education reimbursement
- wellness allowances
- community and philanthropic events
- flexible career paths
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
program managementagile methodologiesrisk managementdependency managementchange managementprogram metricsKPI trackingfinancial acumentechnical program deliverybroadcast operations
Soft skills
stakeholder managementrelationship managementcommunication skillsfacilitation skillsinfluence without authorityindependent operationproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic thinkingownership
Certifications
PMPPgMPCSMSAFeITILbroadcast certificationsengineering certifications