Senior Director, Product Lifestyle, PMO Ops

MGA Entertainment

Senior Director of Product Lifecycle & PMO Operations at MGA Entertainment. Leading transformation of product operations and program management for timely delivery and quality assurance.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeLos Angeles • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and actively manage product development schedules from concept through production readiness and launch.
Ensure timelines are actively managed, challenged, compressed, and recovered where necessary.
Drive accountability across cross-functional teams for milestone completion and schedule adherence.
Identify opportunities to accelerate development timelines by 6–8 weeks where operationally feasible.
Maintain visibility to all critical dependencies impacting launch readiness.
Lead the evolution of MGA’s PMO organization from status reporting to active execution management.
Establish standardized operating cadences, escalation processes, milestone governance, and decision-making frameworks.
Develop centralized dashboards, reporting tools, and workflow systems that support action-oriented execution.
Manage licensing milestone execution including asset approvals, product approvals, contractual deliverables, and launch readiness.
Own operational discipline around the TRA process and production readiness pipeline.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10–15+ years of experience in PMO, product operations, supply planning, program management, product lifecycle management, or manufacturing operations.
Strong experience managing complex, high-volume consumer product pipelines.
Demonstrated success driving cross-functional accountability and on-time delivery.
Experience working with overseas vendors, procurement teams, and factories.
Strong understanding of licensing approvals, tooling, production readiness, factory constraints, and launch management.
Exceptional project management, communication, and escalation management skills.
Experience with PLM, D365, Airtable, Power BI, or similar workflow and reporting tools.
Ability to operate strategically while remaining highly detail-oriented and execution-focused.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Own and actively manage product development schedules from concept through production readiness and launch.
Ensure timelines are actively managed, challenged, compressed, and recovered where necessary.
Drive accountability across cross-functional teams for milestone completion and schedule adherence.
Identify opportunities to accelerate development timelines by 6–8 weeks where operationally feasible.
Maintain visibility to all critical dependencies impacting launch readiness.
Lead the evolution of MGA’s PMO organization from status reporting to active execution management.
Establish standardized operating cadences, escalation processes, milestone governance, and decision-making frameworks.
Develop centralized dashboards, reporting tools, and workflow systems that support action-oriented execution.
Manage licensing milestone execution including asset approvals, product approvals, contractual deliverables, and launch readiness.
Own operational discipline around the TRA process and production readiness pipeline. 🎯 Requirements
10–15+ years of experience in PMO, product operations, supply planning, program management, product lifecycle management, or manufacturing operations.
Strong experience managing complex, high-volume consumer product pipelines.
Demonstrated success driving cross-functional accountability and on-time delivery.
Experience working with overseas vendors, procurement teams, and factories.
Strong understanding of licensing approvals, tooling, production readiness, factory constraints, and launch management.
Exceptional project management, communication, and escalation management skills.
Experience with PLM, D365, Airtable, Power BI, or similar workflow and reporting tools.
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Hard Skills & Tools

product lifecycle managementprogram managementsupply planningmanufacturing operationsproject managementlicensing approvalsproduction readinessescalation managementhigh-volume consumer product pipelinescross-functional accountability

Soft Skills

communicationdetail-orientedexecution-focusedstrategic thinkingleadershipaccountabilityproblem-solvingorganizational skillscollaborationtime management