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Program Manager, Martech Operations & Governance

shyftlabs · Toronto, ON, Canada

Operations ManagementExternal listingfull-time27 minutes ago

About The 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)

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