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Stagwell

Global marketing network delivering digital services

Program Manager

Full-TimeDeadline 9/2/27
$200k - $230k
Expert
Bachelor's
New York, NY, USA
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Project & Program ManagementProgram Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree is required.
  • At least 12 years of experience leading strategic, large-scale public health or behavior change campaigns.
  • Demonstrated experience overseeing paid media campaigns with significant annual media investment and reach.
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across research, creative, media, and analytics.
  • Demonstrated experience operating within highly accountable, performance-driven environments with measurable outcome expectations.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for the Contracting Officer and Contracting Officer’s Representative across all task orders.
  • Oversee execution within a fast-paced, multi-task IDIQ contract structure.
  • Manage deliverable schedules, timelines, and task order lifecycle.
  • Ensure alignment of integrated marketing campaign strategy with federal public health objectives, evidence-based practices, and communications and marketing principles.
  • Oversee research planning, IRB/OMB coordination, and integration of formative and message testing.
  • Supervise development and facilitate approval of messages and creative executions for a range of high-risk audiences.
  • Guide integrated, data-driven media strategies across paid, earned, owned, influence, and partnership channels on traditional, digital, streaming, and emerging platforms.
  • Ensure achievement of aggressive national reach and frequency benchmarks.
  • Oversee real-time campaign optimization and iterative refinement.
  • Oversee responsible and transparent management and reporting of concurrent task orders with large-scale paid media components.
  • Ensure financial reconciliation, invoicing accuracy, and audit readiness across the entirety of the IDIQ.
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams spanning research, creative, media, analytics, and strategic partners.
  • Oversee subcontractor performance, including population- and culture-specific agencies and community-based partners.
  • Oversee campaign performance tracking across paid, owned, earned, influence, and partnership platforms.
  • Ensure delivery of required reporting including TRPs, digital analytics, dashboards, and optimization documentation.
  • Coordinate with independent outcome evaluation contractors to ensure alignment between messaging strategy and measurable health outcomes.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience managing federally funded public health programs or operating within regulated health environments.
  • Familiarity with IDIQ or multi-task order contract structures.
  • Familiarity with IRB/OMB research clearance processes.
  • Experience coordinating with third-party evaluation contractors and research partners.
  • Demonstrated experience leading culturally responsive outreach initiatives.
  • An advanced degree in a field is preferred.

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Stagwell

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Stagwell is a global marketing and communications network with 70+ agencies that deliver digital-first marketing services. It combines digital transformation, creative, media planning, public relations, and data analytics to create integrated campaigns for brands, governments, and nonprofits. Its Stagwell Marketing Cloud provides AI-powered SaaS tools like Agent Cloud, giving marketers access to multiple AI models for market research, media management, and communications. Revenue comes from agency fees and performance-based media buying, and the company’s goal is to provide end-to-end, data-informed marketing solutions at scale while expanding its AI software portfolio.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • July 30, 2026 guidance rose to $1.03-$1.17 adjusted EPS and $475-$525 million EBITDA.
  • IBM, Adobe, Mondelez, and Heineken wins validate Stagwell’s AI-era pitch.
  • September 28, 2026 RealClear expansion and September 21 Intreego launch deepen owned-media and product revenue.

What critics are saying

  • Stagwell still posted an $8 million Q2 2026 net loss and $21 million year-to-date loss.
  • Levi & Korsinsky opened a September 28, 2026 fiduciary-duty investigation, inviting class-action pressure.
  • If AI tools commoditize agency work, clients in-house services and crush Stagwell’s core fees.

What makes Stagwell unique

  • Mark Penn fused agencies, data, and software into a digital-first challenger network.
  • Stagwell’s July 30, 2026 results showed 10% organic revenue growth and $171 million net new business.
  • Its AI stack and RealClear, Intreego, and Assembly give clients self-service plus managed execution.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Family Planning Benefits
  • Parental Leave
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Commuter Benefits

Company News

Newswire
Oct 16th, 2026
Stagwell (STGW) appoints Nagmeh Taheri to Chief Growth Officer, Media & Commerce for Stagwell Europe.

Stagwell (STGW) appoints Nagmeh Taheri to Chief Growth Officer, Media & Commerce for Stagwell Europe. Taheri will lead regional growth for the Media & Commerce segment at Stagwell LONDON, UK, October 16, 2026 (Newswire.com) - Stagwell (NASDAQ:STGW), the global challenger network transforming marketing through AI, today announced the appointment of NagmehTaheri as Chief Growth Officer, Media & Commerce for Stagwell Europe, effective November 18, 2026. Reporting into James Denton-Clark, Chief Growth & Client Officer of Stagwell Europe, Taheri will oversee new business efforts across the European region for the Media & Commerce segment at Stagwell working specifically with sister media agencies Goodstuff and Stagwell Media. Taheri brings over 25 years of experience driving growth across some of the world's leading marketing holding companies, including WPP, Dentsu, Publicis Groupe, IPG and Omnicom. Widely recognised as one of the UK's foremost new business leaders, Taheri was ranked No. 1 in Campaign's UK Media New Business rankings in 2022 and 2024 and No. 3 in 2025. Throughout her career, she has built and led growth functions that have transformed how agency brands collaborate, compete and win, helping secure major media accounts including Aldi, L'Oréal, LVMH, NatWest and Sky. She also played a role in launching Local Planet in 2016, the global network of independent media agencies, helping create a compelling alternative to the traditional holding company model. Prior to this role, Taheri served as Chief Growth Officer, UK & Ireland at Omnicom Media. The appointment follows a year of strong momentum across the Media & Commerce segment following last week's launch of Stagwell Media, the network's new global media agency. The segment has also expanded its media capabilities through The Media Machine as well as the launches of Stagwell Search+ and Stagwell Curate by Stagwell Media Platform earlier this year. James Denton-Clark, Chief Growth & Client Officer of Stagwell Europe, said, "Europe is seeing more and more clients looking for integrated solutions that work seamlessly across markets, and that's exactly where Nagmeh will make a difference. She has a brilliant track record of bringing teams together, raising the bar on how we go to market, and helping clients navigate complexity across multiple countries. As we continue to level up our focus on European multi-market opportunities, I'm excited to have her leading Stagwell's regional media growth." Nagmeh Taheri, recently appointed Chief Growth Officer, Media & Commerce of Stagwell Europe, added, "What really drew me to Stagwell is its ambition, entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to do things differently. This is a moment of real change for our industry, and clients are increasingly looking for a more modern, connected alternative to traditional agency models. Stagwell is uniquely positioned to meet that need, bringing together creativity, media and technology in a way that reflects how brands need to grow today. I'm excited to join the team, build on the momentum, and use my experience to help drive the next phase of growth across Europe." About Stagwell Stagwell is the global challenger network transforming marketing through AI. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonise the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our specialists in 45+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for our clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.

Little Black Book (LBB)
Oct 16th, 2026
Big Moves 16/10/26: the pitch is still in Play.

Big Moves 16/10/26: the pitch is still in Play. Welcome to Big Moves, LBB's weekly look at the hires, wins, pitches and business shifts shaping advertising across the UK and Ireland Editorial Series People moves, company launches, account wins and other business news. There's plenty to keep British and Irish new business teams occupied this week. Lidl GB has launched a review of its creative account, Smart Energy GB is reconsidering its media arrangements, and WPP has secured the Electoral Commission's integrated business. Meanwhile, there's a significant change at the top of MSQ, with James Townsend arriving from Stagwell to lead the agency group, while Ireland's Curious Orange is expanding into experiential marketing. Production companies have been busy, too, with Park Pictures, Somesuch, Pulse Films and Knucklehead among those welcoming new filmmaking talent. Lidl and Smart Energy GB Put Accounts into Review Lidl GB has launched a review of its creative account, with intermediary AAR overseeing the competitive pitch process. The review puts one of Britain's most prominent supermarket advertising accounts back into contention, with Lidl recently reporting annual UK turnover of £13bn and more than £650m in sales attributed to customers switching from competitors. Meanwhile, Smart Energy GB has launched a review of its media agency arrangements, introducing another significant opportunity into the UK market. James Townsend Takes the Helm at MSQ MSQ has appointed James Townsend as group CEO, with co-founder Peter Reid moving into the executive chairman role after more than 15 years leading the business. James joins from Stagwell, where he served as CEO of EMEA and global CEO of its Brand Performance Network. He will take responsibility for day-to-day leadership and international growth, while Peter focuses on the group's strategic direction. The transition comes as MSQ continues to expand internationally, with around 2,000 employees across 25 offices worldwide. T&P Leads WPP's Electoral Commission Win T&P will lead the account, bringing together creative, media strategy, production and campaign execution to support voter registration and participation across Great Britain. The partnership will also support public information campaigns around voter identification requirements and reaching younger audiences. In Northern Ireland, WPP will work alongside ASG Comms, which continues as the Electoral Commission's specialist media agency in the region. Curious Orange Launches Experiential Agency in Ireland Dublin-based Curious Orange has launched Curious Orange Live, a dedicated experiential agency led in EMEA by managing director Kieran Traynor. The new business will draw on the wider Curious Orange network's content, digital, social, design and technology capabilities, with an offering spanning strategy, creative development, production and measurement. It has already secured work with Google, YouTube and Discord, with Kieran bringing more than 18 years of experience across production, client services and agency growth. McDonald's and Bauer Strike Two-Year Breakfast Deal Bauer Media Audio has secured a two-year partnership with McDonald's, making the restaurant chain the exclusive sponsor of Hits Radio Breakfast from October. The agreement will support the McCafé brand through sponsorship, presenter talent, bespoke content and promotional activity, giving McDonald's a consistent presence during listeners' morning routines. Hits Radio Breakfast is hosted by Fleur East, Will Best and James Barr, with the wider Hits Radio network attracting 7.9 million weekly listeners. Also Moving Uncommon Creative Studio co-founder Nils Leonard has been named president of D&AD, succeeding Lisa Smith following her one-year term. Nils takes up the role as the organisation prepares to combine its D&AD Festival and New Blood Festival into D&AD Alive in June 2027, where he will curate a series of President Lectures. WPP Media UK has appointed former Channel 4 executive Veriça Djurdjevic as chief client officer, a newly created role focused on strengthening client relationships and driving growth across the group's UK portfolio. Carat has unveiled a new global positioning and brand identity, 'Difference Engineered', focused on creating meaningful differentiation and measurable competitive advantage for clients. The launch follows the dentsu agency's recognition as Media Network of the Year at Cannes Lions 2026. In digital out-of-home, VIOOH has partnered with AdXact, giving advertisers using AdXact's demand-side platform access to VIOOH's premium DOOH inventory. The integration is now live across key international markets. Channel 4 has commissioned its first vertical drama series in partnership with Sol de Janeiro. Produced by curly media, The Guest List is a five-part micro-drama following four young women navigating life in London, with Zenith UK brokering the branded entertainment partnership. Park Pictures UK has signed playwright and filmmaker Jeremy O. Harris as he expands into commercial filmmaking. Jeremy is best known for Slave Play, which received a record-breaking 12 Tony nominations. Somesuch has welcomed filmmaker Naqqash Khalid for worldwide representation. His debut feature 'In Camera', backed by BBC Films and the BFI, won Best First Feature at the Dinard British Film Festival and a FIPRESCI award at Thessaloniki. South London writer and director Thea Gajić has joined Pulse Films. Her credits include the feature Surviving Earth and Transport for London's 'The Stop is Just the Start' campaign, created with VCCP. Meanwhile, Knucklehead has signed Manchester-based director and photographer Libby Burke Wilde for UK and Amsterdam representation, following previous commercial work for Adidas, PayPal, the BBC, Transport for London and the NSPCC. Caviar has appointed Patch Wadsworth as head of production, bringing experience across British and international commercials, film and television, with previous clients including Amazon, Coca-Cola, Apple, Spotify and John Lewis. And Electric Theatre Collective has welcomed art director Flora MacLeod, whose previous projects include Channel 4's 2023 idents, immersive installations at Outernet London and CG product animations for Dyson, Aveda and Bowers & Wilkins. In media, Heineken has deployed GumGum's Attentive Lift technology across UK campaigns for Birra Moretti and Old Mout, combining attention measurement with brand-lift data to better understand campaign performance. Meanwhile, Ben's Original has renewed its partnership with BBC Children in Need, donating £200,000 to the charity for the second consecutive year, alongside special-edition Pudsey packaging across UK retailers. The independent agency Art of the Possible has been appointed by The Wine Society as its digital customer acquisition and paid media partner. The brand is aiming to introduce its 150-year-old membership model to a new generation of potential customers, and make paid social a meaningful driver of commercial growth. On the agency side, Fold7 has appointed Jack Christensen as group creative director, joining from Le Pub in Milan. His previous work spans Heineken, Volkswagen and IKEA, with 22 Cannes Lions to his name. At Flying Object, George Bergel has been promoted to company director, taking responsibility for commercial operations and delivery after more than a decade at the business. The move follows co-founder Tom Pursey's departure to pursue a new venture. And Earnies has secured the Boxpark account, adding another UK win to the week's collection of new business.

RBR+TVBR
Oct 15th, 2026
FOX Advertising brings agentic linear buys for live campaigns.

FOX Advertising brings agentic linear buys for live campaigns. October 15, 2026 LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. - The next phase of FOX Advertising's agentic advertising platform, powered by FOX AdStudio, has ramped up, with five agency and technology partners signed on for live campaigns and commercial linear media transactions. It builds on the June announcement that the industry's "first end-to-end agentic advertising platform" had arrived, with the technology and infrastructure designed to embed agents across audience planning, media transactions and activation. Today's announcement sees FOX Advertising advancing that foundation with the partnership of WPP, Omnicom, Horizon Media, Stagwell and Simulmedia. Each are "executing agentic linear transactions for live campaigns through an evolved agentic infrastructure designed to support broader real-world execution," the Fox Corporation unit said on October 15. Specifically, it added, "The enhanced infrastructure creates a centralized and secure connection point for partners to interact with FOX AdStudio. A FOX agent routes each partner to its own dedicated, permissioned account, providing direct agent-to-agent connectivity." The platform now also incorporates an integrated governance engine that monitors agent activity throughout the workflow for compliance and adherence to established protocols. Built-in controls further advance FOX AdStudio's security-first approach. As Fox Advertising sees it, the new capabilities also enable "a more intelligent linear transaction. When requested inventory is unavailable, the FOX agent can recommend alternative inventory based on the advertiser's target audience rather than simply removing unavailable inventory from the order. This lays the foundation for more guided agentic transactions over time, with strong guardrails and human oversight remaining essential throughout the process." FOX Advertising and agency teams maintain control over key decisions. "From the beginning, our vision for agentic advertising has been to connect the campaign lifecycle and create a more seamless and effective experience for advertisers," said Jeff Collins, President of FOX Advertising, Marketing and Brand Partnerships. "In June, we demonstrated that we had built the technology and infrastructure to make end-to-end agentic advertising possible. Now, together with our partners, we're putting those capabilities to work on live campaigns - moving agentic advertising from capability to real-world execution while maintaining the governance and human oversight essential to doing it responsibly."

Decision Marketing
Oct 15th, 2026
MSQ recruits Stagwell chief as Peter Reid moves on up.

MSQ recruits Stagwell chief as Peter Reid moves on up. October 15, 2026 1:53 pm Data-driven marketing, advertising and tech group MSQ has appointed a new group chief executive to succeed Peter Reid, who is moving up to chairman, as the business eyes the next stage of its global growth. James Townsend joins next week from Stagwell, bringing more than 25 years of experience spanning brand strategy, performance marketing and digital transformation. He was most recently served as CEO of Stagwell EMEA and global CEO of Stagwell's Brand Performance Network - a portfolio of performance marketing agencies operating across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Townsend will assume responsibility for day-to-day leadership and driving forward global agency growth and collaboration. Reid, who co-founded MSQ and has served in the role since its inception over 15 years ago, will focus on the overall strategic direction of the group. MSQ insists the appointment comes at a pivotal moment, as the group continues to build commercial momentum and scale its integrated capabilities, with around 2,000 people now working across 25 global offices in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Over the past three years it has completed seven acquisitions in America, Germany and the UK, won and deepened relationships with clients such as Diageo, Chase, The AA, JLL and Dropbox and launched MSQ Intelligence, a central global team dedicated to developing products, services, platforms and data capabilities to power MSQ agencies with world-class tools and intelligence. Reid and Townsend will work in tandem to ensure a smooth transition into their new roles, supported by MSQ's non-executive chairman Charles Courtier, COO Dan Yardley and executive directors. Reid said: "This is a genuinely exciting moment for MSQ and for me personally. James brings the energy, experience and vision that Decision Marketing need to accelerate the next chapter of growth and I am delighted that Decision Marketing has attracted him to MSQ. "It allows me to continue contributing to the strategic direction of a group that I am immensely proud of, while creating space for new leadership to thrive. I very much look forward to working with James as together Decision Marketing embark on the next step in its evolution. "The culture, ambition and commitment to our clients and our colleagues remains absolutely unchanged." Townsend added: "MSQ is an exceptional business and has grown to become one of the most scaled challengers - ambitious, entrepreneurial and built on a culture of doing what is right for clients and its people. I have admired what Peter and the team have built and I am thrilled to now be part of it. "The opportunity ahead is significant. I see a growing market. MSQ has a connected structure, world class talent and an AI platform in Assist that is creating material advantage for modern marketers. All this delivers an opportunity for Decision Marketing to cement ourselves as one of the defining global marketing and technology groups of this decade. "I look forward to working closely with Peter, the executive team, MSQ's brilliant agency leaders and most importantly, its clients and colleagues - who are at the heart of everything MSQ does."

WebWire
Oct 15th, 2026
FOX AdStudio advances to next phase as leading agency partners put agentic advertising into action.

FOX AdStudio advances to next phase as leading agency partners put agentic advertising into action. WPP, Omnicom, Horizon, Stagwell and Simulmedia join FOX Advertising in completing live agentic linear transactions with enhancements including intelligent inventory recommendations. New York, NY - WEBWIRE - Thursday, October 15, 2026 FOX Advertising today announced the next phase of its agentic advertising platform, powered by FOX AdStudio, as leading agency and technology partners put its agent-to-agent capabilities into action for live campaigns and commercial linear media transactions. In June, FOX Advertising announced the industry's first end-to-end agentic advertising platform, demonstrating that it had built the technology and infrastructure to embed agents across audience planning, media transactions and activation. Now, FOX Advertising is advancing that foundation with WPP, Omnicom, Horizon Media, Stagwell and Simulmedia executing agentic linear transactions for live campaigns through an evolved agentic infrastructure designed to support broader real-world execution. The enhanced infrastructure creates a centralized and secure connection point for partners to interact with FOX AdStudio. A FOX agent routes each partner to its own dedicated, permissioned account, providing direct agent-to-agent connectivity. The platform now also incorporates an integrated governance engine that monitors agent activity throughout the workflow for compliance and adherence to established protocols. Built-in controls further advance FOX AdStudio's security-first approach. The new capabilities also enable a more intelligent linear transaction. When requested inventory is unavailable, the FOX agent can recommend alternative inventory based on the advertiser's target audience rather than simply removing unavailable inventory from the order. This lays the foundation for more guided agentic transactions over time, with strong guardrails and human oversight remaining essential throughout the process. FOX Advertising and agency teams maintain control over key decisions. "From the beginning, our vision for agentic advertising has been to connect the campaign lifecycle and create a more seamless and effective experience for advertisers," said Jeff Collins, President of FOX Advertising, Marketing and Brand Partnerships. "In June, we demonstrated that we had built the technology and infrastructure to make end-to-end agentic advertising possible. Now, together with our partners, we're putting those capabilities to work on live campaigns - moving agentic advertising from capability to real-world execution while maintaining the governance and human oversight essential to doing it responsibly." _________ What our Partners say: "We're thrilled with the progress we're making together with FOX Advertising. Our ability to safely execute live agent-to-agent transactions is an important technical milestone in our broader effort to define the standards that will allow our industry to put this powerful technology to work for clients responsibly and at scale." - Susan Schiekofer, Chief Media Officer, WPP Media US. "Connecting our Omni marketing intelligence platform to the Fox Ad Studio enables Omnicom to plan audiences against linear and CTV exposure data, agentically orchestrated and transacted at a spot level based on client outcomes." - Justin Wroe, Chief Commercial Officer, Omnicom Media "Building directly on our launch of an agentic orchestration layer for real-time media decisioning, Horizon is accelerating direct agent-to-agent communication between Horizon and FOX through our open ecosystem partner, Databricks, to transform the process of media buying. Frictionless, automated workflows represent the next critical milestone in operationalizing a truly functional orchestration layer for our clients." - Navneet Singh, SVP, Programmatic Innovation, Horizon Media "Linear remains an important part of how our clients reach audiences at scale, and it's a market where speed has been hard to come by. With The Media Machine, Stagwell's agentic media operating system, connecting directly to FOX AdStudio, our agent can turn a client brief into an actionable media plan in real time, dramatically simplifying the buying process and deliver agility to our clients across the media ecosystem." - Marissa Jimenez, Global Chief Trading and Solutions Officer at Stagwell Media Platform. "What Fox has pioneered here with their true agentic transaction architecture has enormous consequences for the media world. For the first time in TV history, advertisers and agencies can optimize their linear TV ad campaigns like digital, with automated, agent-to-agent negotiations at the spot, schedule, flight and target-level mid-campaign based on advertisers' closed loop outcome data such as web visits, app downloads, phone calls, purchases online or in-store or real-time trends in search, social or on AI answer engines." - Dave Morgan, Founder and CEO of Simulmedia: About Fox Corporation Fox Corporation produces and distributes compelling news, sports, and entertainment content through its primary iconic domestic brands, including FOX News Media, FOX Sports, Tubi Media Group, FOX Entertainment and FOX Television Stations. These brands hold cultural significance with consumers and commercial importance for distributors and advertisers. The breadth and depth of our footprint allows us to deliver content that engages and informs audiences, develop deeper consumer relationships, and create more compelling product offerings. FOX maintains an impressive track record of news, sports, and entertainment industry success that shapes our strategy to capitalize on existing strengths and invest in new initiatives. For more information about Fox Corporation, please visit www.FoxCorporation.com. WebWireID362917 This news content was configured by WebWire editorial staff. Linking is permitted. Distribute your news. * Every day, hundreds of individuals and companies choose WebWire to distribute their news. * WebWire places your news within numerous highly trafficked news search engines generating leads and publicity. * Submit Your Release Now!