Program Manager

1. Position details
Role: Program Manager — Big Tech Partnerships
2. Job Descriptions
Revenue, billing and Finance liaison
Raise monthly invoices against partner POs and ROs, and make sure every signed line is billed.
Track billed versus contracted value across all Big Tech deals, and flag anything that is slipping.
Follow up on outstanding payments with the partner and with our collections and Finance teams until closure.
Own the Big Tech payment tracker and the annual forecast.
Prepare the monthly revenue break-up, deal-wise, contract-wise and TTN share for leadership.
Reconcile partner marketing spends across TV, print and digital against the deal, campaign by campaign.
Coordinate with Finance on POs, credit notes, GST and documentation so invoices are not held up.
Project implementation and partner coordination
Take every signed contract from signature to delivery list out the deliverables, get owners against each, and close them inside the contractual window.
Run the implementation calls with the partner's team and with our internal teams (Editorial, Product, TIL, Ad Ops), and keep one live status view.
Verify what has actually gone live before we call a deliverable complete, and keep the evidence on record for the partner.
Chase the partner for PO release once contracts are signed.
Escalate early where an internal dependency is going to miss a contractual date.
Contract and documentation control
Maintain the master record of all Big Tech contracts terms, dates, deliverables, renewal and exit dates.
Circulate signed contracts, keep the file complete, and be the single reference point for what was agreed.
Give the Big Tech Head and leadership a clear read on where each contract stands ahead of any partner discussion.
Research and support to new business
Pull together the data we need for partner discussions content, archive, audio-video, Indic language and audience data.
Track what other publishers are doing with AI & Big Tech Companies, and what deal structures they are signing.
Keep an eye on court proceedings and lawsuits filed by publishers globally.
Build the decks, whitepapers and one-pagers used in partner and internal meetings.
Support new partner conversations (Meta, Microsoft and others) with background research and first-cut commercial notes.
3. Who we are looking for
Must have
2+ years of experience in partnership operations, key account management, business operations or a client-servicing role with commercial ownership.
Hands-on experience with billing and collections, raising invoices, working with POs, and following up on payments with clients and with internal Finance.
Experience running delivery against contractual timelines, with both internal teams and an external client.
Comfortable with numbers. Can build and maintain revenue trackers, reconciliations and forecasts
Clean, professional written English.
Deep understanding of AI tools and prompt engineering
Graduate; MBA or equivalent preferred.
Good to have
Exposure to AI tools , media, publishing or digital content businesses.
Prior work with a large technology or platform client (Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon or similar).
Experience with contract documentation and commercial terms.
Ability to build a decent deck without design support.

Work arrangement
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