Technical Program Manager

Overview

Placement Type : Temporary

Salary : $65-75 Hourly

Start Date : Feb 3, 2026

This is a US-based remote position that will be February through June with the possibility of extension up to 18 months (January 2027).

Join a pioneering global organization at the forefront of technological innovation, where your expertise will directly shape critical initiatives and drive significant business transformation. As a key partner with Aquent, you will play a crucial role in delivering strategic programs that impact integrated business operations and contribute to our client's ongoing success, ensuring projects are not just completed, but truly revolutionize the way business is done.

This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned professional to step into a dynamic role, bridging technical expertise with strategic business objectives. You will be instrumental in guiding complex projects from inception to delivery, ensuring seamless execution and impactful outcomes across various critical functions. Your work will directly influence product and service implementation, providing vital technical and analytical insights to leadership, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to meet ambitious goals.

What You'll Do

• Interface with business and technical stakeholders on technical and business issues from project initiation through delivery.
• Drive program and project schedules, providing comprehensive status reports to ensure transparency and accountability.
• Create and review multiple functional specifications, serving as crucial tools for informed decision-making on product and service implementation.
• Provide leadership with essential technical and analytical information to guide strategic choices.
• Organize and coordinate cross-functional activities, ensuring programs and projects are completed on schedule and within budget.
• Review program status, identify risks, manage dependencies, and analyze delivery metrics across integrated business planning workstreams.
• Triage issues with business stakeholders and technical teams, addressing impacts on scope, timelines, or integrations swiftly and effectively.
• Translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements and strategically prioritize backlog items.
• Coordinate system integrations and data flows across planning, enterprise resource planning, sourcing, and supplier collaboration platforms.
• Drive alignment between supply chain, finance, engineering, and IT on critical design decisions and trade-offs.
• Prepare decision-ready updates for leadership, clearly highlighting risks, proposed mitigations, and delivered value.
• Advance change management, adoption, and capability rollout activities to ensure successful implementation and utilization.

Must-Have Qualifications

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

About Aquent Talent

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.