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# Group Program Director, Product (US) at Code and Theory

- **Company:** Code and Theory
- **Location:** New York New York, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://www.codeandtheory.com/careers/8660868002?gh_jid=8660868002

## Job description

As a Group Program Director, you will lead the Delivery capability for a portfolio of clients and/or a major account at Code and Theory, setting the strategic direction for delivery and ensuring the overall health, growth, and performance of your assigned delivery portfolio. You will manage and mentor all levels within Delivery (Associates up to Senior Directors), cultivate deep product and digital transformation expertise across your team, and serve as a senior escalation point for clients and internal leadership alike.

A great Group Program Director operates at both the strategic and operational altitude: you drive department-wide excellence in delivery, own scope and budget integrity across your group, and represent Delivery as part of your portfolio leadership team. You champion the discipline internally and externally, push a culture of continuous learning, and partner closely with Resource Management, Recruiting, Finance, and discipline leads to ensure your group is staffed, thriving, and ready to take on emerging business challenges. Ultimately, you balance strategic ambition, team development, and fiscal accountability, ensuring Code and Theory delivers innovative, high-quality work efficiently and profitably at scale.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Oversee the overall health and performance of delivery portfolios, driving the team to excellence in delivery across a portfolio of clients and/or a major account
- Serve as an expert in estimation and scope development, leading and delegating business reviews of scopes; serve as the delivery reviewer of budgets and contracts
- Act as an escalation point for accounts and projects, both internally and externally; work with the team to define and drive resolution paths, mitigating issues and collaborating with discipline leads on solutions
- In partnership with Client Engagement, connect with clients in a steering and escalation capacity, acting as a senior point of contact for both issue resolution and account growth
- Partner with Resource Management and Recruiting to staff projects, ensure all account needs are covered, and support plans for future staffing needs
- Partner with Client Engagement and Business Development on organic and new business needs, ensuring account and portfolio growth targets are met or exceeded. Provide recommendations on approaches to growth and investment opportunities
- Evaluate project health on a weekly basis, collaborating on project health concerns with your portfolio leadership peers and with account/project leads
- Foster a spirit of commitment, collaboration, and positivity that builds trust with internal teams and clients
- Manage, mentor, and cultivate team members at all levels within Delivery (Associates up to Senior Directors) for growth; develop and lead training for teams in partnership with Delivery leadership, including review and sign-off on performance reviews and growth plans
- Actively participate in new business pitches, ensuring staffing, delegation, and budget/scope/staffing plans are rationalized against client needs and evolving delivery methodologies
- Identify and drive change-related processes and tools that enable the greater team to work more effectively, efficiently, and in the most modern way possible
- Act as a lead champion and advocate for the Delivery discipline, driving change based on business, client, and discipline needs, and consistently assessing areas for improvement, leading process improvements directly or delegating to Senior Directors and Directors as appropriate

## WHAT YOU'LL NEED

- 15+ years of program/delivery management experience, with deep expertise in product and digital transformation delivery
- A demonstrated ability to cultivate and grow that expertise across a team, pushing a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and professional development
- A change-agent mindset, with a history of identifying and driving process and tooling improvements at a department or agency level, leveraging AI to accelerate work and drive innovation
- Proven experience owning scope, estimation, and budget integrity for complex, high-value engagements
- A track record of serving as a trusted escalation point for clients and senior internal stakeholders, with the judgment to know when to resolve directly versus when to mobilize others
- Strong financial acumen, including comfort partnering with Finance on revenue planning, investment decisions, and account health
- Experience managing, mentoring, and developing team members at all levels within Delivery (Associates up to Senior Directors), including ownership of performance reviews and growth planning
- Humility in leadership and a genuine commitment to fostering accountability, trust, and morale across teams
- An understanding of different project management methodologies, with the ability to adapt approach to meet client, account, and agency needs
- Strong technical acumen to drive work forward in partnership with cross-discipline leads, translating technical complexity into clear, actionable delivery plans
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, including clear communication, emotional intelligence, and the ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders: clients, internal teams, and agency leadership alike
- Experience contributing to new business pitches in a senior oversight capacity or as a hands-on contributor

## ABOUT US

Born in 2001, Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency that sits at the center of creativity and technology. We pride ourselves on not only solving consumer and business problems, but also helping to establish new capabilities for our clients. With a global client roster of Fortune 100s and start-ups alike, we crave the hardest problems to solve. We have teams distributed across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The Code and Theory global network of agencies is growing and includes Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Create Group, Current, and TrueLogic.

Striving never to be pigeonholed, we work across every major category: from tech to CPG, financial services to travel & hospitality, government and education to media and publishing. We value the collaboration with our client partners, including but not limited to Adidas, Amazon, Con Edison, Diageo, EY, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lenovo, Marriott, Mars, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and TikTok.

The Code and Theory network is comprised of nearly 2,000 people with 50% engineers and 50% creative talent. We’re always on the lookout for smart, driven, and forward-thinking people to join our team.

The compensation range for this role is $220,000 – $280,000 and spans multiple levels. We're open to hiring at the level that best matches the right candidate's experience. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, budget, and location.

## About Code and Theory

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Code and Theory is a technology-first creative network that partners with businesses to solve complex challenges in consumer behavior, emerging tech, and AI.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Stagwell Group, acquired in 2016)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2001
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Digital creative agency, business consulting, technology services
- Target customers: B2B, enterprise clients (e.g., Amazon, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, NBC, NFL, Yeti)
- Mission: “To redefine what is possible to create lasting impact and drive long-term growth” [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeandtheory)

## Products & Services
- **Transformational Technology**: Building best-in-class platforms and technical infrastructure, often extending into connected physical expressions [codeandtheory.com](https://www.codeandtheory.com/).
- **Integrated Marketing**: Delivering the right messages to new and existing customers across the entire ecosystem [codeandtheory.com](https://www.codeandtheory.com/).
- **Data, Analytics and Research**: Data-driven approach enabling understanding of end-to-end consumer journeys, powering work from start to finish [codeandtheory.com](https://www.codeandtheory.com/).
- **Business & Organizational Consulting**: Helping clients reinvent technical infrastructure and roadmap to deliver for today’s and tomorrow’s needs [codeandtheory.com](https://www.codeandtheory.com/).
- **Services, Platforms & Products**: Defining and delivering products, services, and communications, as well as designing the business itself [codeandtheory.com](https://www.codeandtheory.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (subsidiary of Stagwell, a publicly traded company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $30.5M (LinkedIn estimate, 2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeandtheory)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company Stagwell Group; key clients include Amazon, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, NBC, NFL, Yeti [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeandtheory)
- **Growth Signals**: 540 employees (+0.3% YoY), operates in 15 countries, active job postings (10), recent AI transformation hires (Head of AI, AI Transformation Lead) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeandtheory)

## Competitive Advantages
- Balanced workforce: 50% creative, 50% engineers, enabling seamless integration of creativity and technology [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeandtheory)
- Strong client roster across industries (finance, healthcare, tech, media)
- Deep expertise in publishing – embedded in 135+ newsrooms over the past decade [builtinnyc.com](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/code-and-theory)
- Part of Stagwell network, providing global footprint and resources

## Strategic Focus
- AI transformation: dedicated roles like Head of AI and AI Transformation Lead [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeandtheory)
- Expanding data and analytics capabilities
- Continued growth in integrated marketing and business consulting

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “not typical,” with emphasis on smart, interesting, forward-thinking people. Open door policy, flexible work schedule, hybrid workspace (combination of remote and on-site) [builtinnyc.com](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/code-and-theory)
- **Perks**: 401(K) matching, generous parental leave, family medical leave, dental/vision/disability insurance, FSA, paid holidays, generous PTO, company-sponsored happy hours [builtinnyc.com](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/code-and-theory)
- **Professional Development**: Job training & conferences, mentorship program, promote from within [builtinnyc.com](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/code-and-theory)
- **Diversity**: Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff, diversity manifesto, documented equal pay policy [builtinnyc.com](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/code-and-theory)
- **Locations**: New York (HQ), Manila, Bengaluru, plus other global offices [codeandtheory.com](https://www.codeandtheory.com/location/new-york)
- **Salary Examples**: Junior Creative Strategist ~$93k, Senior Strategist ~$144k, Brand Strategist ~$112k [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeandtheory)
- **Active Hiring**: 10 open positions (e.g., Senior Recruiter, AI roles, Engineering, Marketing) [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/codeandtheory)

## Sources
1. [Code and Theory Website](https://www.codeandtheory.com/)
2. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeandtheory)
3. [Built In NYC Profile](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/code-and-theory)
4. [Careers Page (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/codeandtheory)

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