Principal Program Manager, Growth Markets

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid work. The role is a 12-month fixed-term maternity cover starting January 2027.

Company

hirify.global is a global family-history company providing access to historical records, DNA-network services, and subscription-based products for personal discovery.

What you will do

• Translate business priorities into sequenced programme plans with milestones, owners, and trade-offs.
• Represent Growth Markets in Product and Commerce discussions using customer, market, and commercial evidence.
• Coordinate launch and migration readiness across Product, Technology, Marketing, CRM, localisation, and Member Services.
• Facilitate working sessions, clarify ambiguous requests, drive follow-through, and escalate unresolved blockers.
• Track risks, dependencies, and assumptions while maintaining portfolio views and executive decision briefs.
• Coordinate non-working media budget inputs, monthly accruals, invoices, supplier onboarding, and approval workflows.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading complex, multifunctional programmes and delivery management in a digital business.
• Strong stakeholder leadership skills, including building trust, influencing without authority, and maintaining partner commitments.
• Ability to ramp up quickly in an unfamiliar portfolio and manage competing priorities with limited supervision.
• Strong facilitation and presentation skills, including translating complex topics into clear recommendations for senior leaders.
• Solid commercial acumen and confidence using market, customer, and performance evidence to clarify delivery trade-offs.
• Practical experience coordinating budget records, supplier dependencies, and approval processes with attention to detail.
• Background in international expansion, localisation, market migrations, e-commerce journeys, or tools such as monday.com.

Culture & Benefits

• Location-flexible approach allowing work from the nearest office, home, or a hybrid of both, subject to location and role restrictions.
• Inclusive and diverse workplace where different ideas and perspectives are valued.
• Collaborative workplace with competitive compensation.
• Opportunity to contribute to products and services used by millions of customers worldwide.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the interview process.

Hiring process

• All job offers are contingent on a background-check screen compliant with applicable law.
• Reasonable interview-process accommodations can be requested where needed.