DICK'S Sporting Goods is seeking a Group Program Manager to lead multi-year, cross-functional programs that scale our data ecosystem for Athlete Intelligence Platforms. In this role, you will be accountable for the portfolio strategy, governance, and execution orchestration, while building and leading a high-performing team of program managers.
What You'll Do
- Drive portfolio-level planning, prioritization, and investment decisions across Data & Intelligence Platforms.
- Establish delivery standards and transparent reporting that create executive confidence.
- Align portfolio outcomes to enterprise strategy; ensure cross-domain traceability from objectives to funded work.
- Own the Program accountability within governance frameworks like OKRs, QBRs, and stage gates.
- Orchestrate execution of complex, multi-team programs spanning data engineering, architecture, product, and data science.
- Lead integrated planning, capacity and dependency management, and critical path oversight for high-value initiatives.
- Ensure delivery quality, scalability, and adoption-readiness in partnership with product and technology leaders.
- Act as the primary interface for senior leadership on program performance, risks, and benefits.
- Facilitate decision-making on trade-offs, investments, and sequencing; negotiate alignment across technology and business domains.
- Establish consistent stakeholder touchpoints and clear escalation pathways.
- Lead and mentor a team of program managers; set goals, coach performance, and drive career development.
- Build durable team constructs and operating rhythms across data architecture, engineering, science, product, and vendor partners.
- Recruit top talent; foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and outcome orientation.
- Advance PPM practices, tooling, and standards; champion data-informed planning and delivery.
- Drive structured innovation (ideation forums, hackathons) to accelerate learning, process simplification, and time-to-value.
- Embed change management practices to increase adoption, operational readiness, and benefit realization.
What We're Looking For
- 10–15 years in enterprise program and portfolio management.
- 7–10 years delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives.
- Proven success scaling data and analytics platform programs.
- Experience in retail or B2C environments.
- Demonstrated leadership of program managers and matrixed teams spanning data engineering, architecture, product, and data science.
- Master's Degree or equivalent level.
- Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (over 10 years to 15 years).
- Managerial experience of interpreting strategy and policy to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames (over 10 years to 15 years).
- Exceptional written and verbal communication; concise, executive-ready storytelling.
Nice to Have
- Comfortable with high-visibility, multi-stakeholder delivery and transformation.
- Knowledge of portfolio and program tooling (e.g., Aha!, Jira/Align, Confluence), financial and capacity planning, RAID management.
- Knowledge of Agile and scaled delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe concepts), and hybrid execution models.
- Knowledge of data and analytics concepts: data platforms/lakehouse, semantic layer/BI enablement, identity graphs, CDP/RTCDP, experimentation/measurement.
- Familiarity with BI ecosystems (Power BI, Tableau, Looker) and marketing measurement (A/B testing, incrementality, attribution) from a program adoption perspective.
Technical Stack
- Aha!
- Jira/Align
- Confluence
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Looker
Team & Environment
You will lead a team of program managers within the Data & Intelligence Platforms domain.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive total rewards package including incentive, equity and benefits.
- State paid leave compliance.
- Generous suite of benefits.
- Compensation range: $114,300.00 - $190,500.00 + equity.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates located in the United States.
DICK'S Sporting Goods believes in how positively sports can change lives and is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.
