Program Manager - Applications (Senior Leadership Role)

At Optimove, we believe people are capable of more than a single job description. You’re not hired just to fill a position- you’re empowered to shape it, grow it, and make it your own. We call this being Positionless. And Positionless isn’t just our culture. It’s our product. Optimove is the creator of Positionless Marketing, an AI-powered platform that gives every marketer the power to analyze, create, launch, and optimize independently. The result is faster execution, deeper personalization, and 88% greater campaign efficiency. Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, we partner with leading brands like Sephora, Staples, and Entain. Today, more than 500 Optimovers across NYC, London, Tel Aviv, Scotland, Brazil, Estonia, and beyond are building the future of marketing together, in an environment that actively encourages ownership and growth, with two out of every three managers promoted from within. If you’re looking for a place where you can do more, be more, come grow with us. We are looking for a Program Manager of Applications to lead one of Optimove's core customer-facing product and technology domains. This is not a traditional Product Management or Engineering Management role. You will run the domain as a small business within Optimove, with end-to-end accountability for product direction, technology, people, execution, customer value, and business outcomes.You will lead a multidisciplinary organization of 20+ people across Engineering, Product, and Design/UX, with the authority to shape the team and operating model required to succeed. We are looking for a leader who can move naturally between product strategy, customer needs, technology, execution, and people leadership - and who is comfortable making difficult trade-offs and being accountable for the outcome. What You'll Own • Product direction and roadmap - Own the roadmap and make the final trade-offs about what to build, what to improve, and what not to do. • Customer value and product adoption - Deeply understand how customers use our applications and drive measurable improvements in customer experience, usage, and impact. • Engineering execution - Create an organization capable of moving quickly while maintaining strong standards for quality, reliability, maintainability, and service health. • End-to-end delivery - Own outcomes from problem discovery through product definition, development, release, adoption, and ongoing operation. • People and organization - Lead Engineering, Product, and Design/UX capabilities; build a high-performing organization and continuously improve its structure, talent, and ways of working. • Program economics and resources - Own headcount and relevant cloud/vendor resources, making deliberate trade-offs between investment, speed, quality, and cost. • Organizational autonomy - Reduce unnecessary dependencies and build the technical and organizational capabilities needed for the group to increasingly decide, build, test, and release independently. • Customers and business partnership - Maintain direct exposure to customers and work closely with Customer Success and other commercial teams to understand problems, validate priorities, and measure outcomes. • Performance and outcomes - Define and manage against a clear scorecard spanning innovation, adoption, customer outcomes, reliability, delivery speed, quality, and efficiency. What We're Looking For • Significant leadership experience in a B2B SaaS product and technology organization, with meaningful ownership of a product, platform, or business domain. • Strong product judgment - able to understand customer problems, shape product direction, evaluate opportunities, prioritize ruthlessly, and make sound trade-offs. • Strong technical fluency and engineering jud