Lead Program Manager (PMO) Full Time NEW

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.

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.

What You’ll Bring

You’ve spent significant time as a program manager driving large, cross-functional initiatives to delivery, and you have a technical background — ideally you started as a technical program manager and grew into the broader generalist role. That technical grounding matters: you can hold your own in an architecture discussion, tell a real dependency from a manufactured one, and earn the respect of strong engineers. But the day job is program leadership, not technical depth.

You’re a can-do, sleeves-rolled-up operator who’s happiest making things happen rather than administering them. You bring structure and rigour — clear milestones, honest dependency mapping, crisp reporting, relentless unblocking, on-time delivery — without becoming a source of bureaucracy. You’re an excellent communicator who can flex between an engineer and an executive in the same hour, and you’re comfortable building something new with a high degree of autonomy. You’re at ease across multiple time zones and offices, and you know how to keep distributed teams aligned without drowning them in meetings.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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 and direction to ambiguous problem spaces.
• The ambition to build and mentor a team in the future, and a passion for fast-paced, scale-up environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting technical projects within a larger product and engineering organisation.
• Experience with AI tools.
• Strong business judgment and strategic thinking — able to see the big picture and make connections across teams and issues.
• A proactive approach to anticipating issues and solving problems before they escalate.

We want to make cinema accessible to everyone. We believe people from different backgrounds bring different ideas that foster innovation and engagement, allowing us to attract great people to develop the best experience for our users.

MUBI is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. That means it’s our responsibility to ensure that all candidates are not discriminated against in our hiring processes and our employment decisions based on their race, color, religion, nationality or ethnic origin, age, gender identity or expression, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic background, sexual orientation, family or parental status, or any other applicable characteristic.