Vice President, IT Program Management - Office of the CIO

Summary of Position

The Vice President, Program Management is a senior leadership role responsible for driving strategic program delivery, enterprise transformation initiatives, and cross-functional technology solutions that support the organization’s strategic goals. This role leads and orchestrates enterprise-wide programs across data, systems, operations, M&A integration, and digital transformation efforts—ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology execution. The ideal candidate has deep experience in enterprise program governance, technology leadership, media & entertainment operations, and delivery excellence across diverse technology portfolios.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Program Leadership

• Lead the planning, execution, and governance of large-scale programs spanning business systems, data & analytics, digital transformation, and M&A integration.
• Drive the enterprise technology roadmap in collaboration with business and technical leaders, ensuring programs align with corporate goals and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Establish scalable program management methodologies across Agile and Waterfall environments to drive transparency, accountability, and delivery excellence.
• Lead PMO administrative activities and oversee demand management and intake processes, ensuring efficient handling project requests and resource allocation as well as alignment with strategic goals

Strategic Transformation & Modernization

• Oversee modernization initiatives across core enterprise platforms such as SAP (Finance/Supply Chain), Salesforce, Rights platforms (SAP IPM, Rightsline, FilmTrack), and data/analytics ecosystems (Snowflake, Power BI, Tableau).
• Lead cross-functional business solutions that improve process efficiency, reduce costs, and increase operational scalability.
• Manage cloud transformations, platform rationalization, and automation initiatives, ensuring sustainable technology growth and optimization.

M&A & Integration Strategy

• Spearhead post-merger integration programs to harmonize technology, processes, and teams across acquired entities.
• Ensure consistent execution of integration playbooks, focusing on operational synergies, systems consolidation, and stakeholder alignment.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as an operational advisor to the CIO, aligning program portfolios with corporate objectives and departmental needs.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, data & analytics leaders, IT operations, and vendor partners to ensure end-to-end delivery.
• Provide executive-level updates on program status, risks, dependencies, and value realization.

Team Leadership & Vendor Management

• Build and lead a high-performing team of program/project managers and business analysts.
• Manage external vendor relationships and service providers, ensuring contract compliance, cost-effectiveness, and quality.
• Transition teams from staff augmentation to managed services models to improve delivery consistency and scale.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in technology leadership, with 7+ years leading enterprise-level programs and transformation initiatives.
• Significant Media & Entertainment industry experience; understanding of studio operations, rights & royalties, and content distribution processes.
• Expertise in enterprise platforms: SAP (Financials, IPM), Salesforce, Rightsline, FilmTrack, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure), and data & analytics platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Tableau).
• Demonstrated success in leading small, medium and large, complex, cross-functional technology initiatives including M&A integrations, cloud modernization, and enterprise process redesign.
• Exceptional program management, strategic planning, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor teams in matrixed, global environments.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with media rights management, financial systems transformation, and cloud data platforms.
• Consulting background or experience managing consulting/vendor engagements.
• Deep understanding of program governance frameworks and executive reporting.

About Lionsgate

Lionsgate (NYSE: LION) is one of the world’s leading standalone, pure play, publicly traded content companies. It brings together diversified motion picture and television production and distribution businesses, a world-class portfolio of valuable brands and franchises, a talent management and production powerhouse and a more than 20,000-title film and television library, all driven by the studio’s bold and entrepreneurial culture.

Our Benefits

• Full Coverage – Medical, Vision, and Dental
• Work/Life Balance – generous sick days, vacation days, holidays, and Impact Day
• 401(k) company matching

Compensation

$220,000 - $230,000

EEO Statement

Lionsgate is an equal employment opportunity employer. All employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of their qualifications, consistent with applicable state and federal laws. In addition, Lionsgate will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Lionsgate will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and federal law.