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Date: Dec 19, 2025

Location: New York, NY

Company: Chobani

Summary

 The Senior Director of Program Management will lead the end-to-end Project Management of Chobani’s 360 Soccer and Sports marketing programs. This role ensures every touchpoint — Packaging, Retail/Shopper, Sampling, Events & Activations, Social/Digital, Content, Partnerships, and Comms — moves in sync, on strategy, and on time.
You’ll serve as the hub and connective tissue of our soccer platform: keeping all workstreams aligned, maintaining momentum, clarifying priorities, driving accountability, and ensuring that our programs show up with excellence across every field of play.
Experience in the sports soccer space — leagues and, teams, agencies, or major sports properties — a plus.

Responsibilities

360 Program Leadership

  • Oversee the cross-functional program management of Chobani’s 360 Soccer platform across multidisciplinary teams (Packaging, Retail/Shopper, Events/Activations, Sampling, Social/Digital, Content, Comms, Partnerships).
  • Maintain a unified program plan, owning schedules, notes, weekly status, risks, and next steps across every touchpoint.
  • Serve as the “connector of dots,” ensuring alignment between Marketing, Commercial, NPD, Legal, Plant Ops, Comms, and external partners.
  • Keep the entire program moving with clarity, transparency, and forward momentum.

Project & Process Excellence

  • Develop and continuously refine program management frameworks that ensure efficiency, predictability, and high-quality execution.
  • Establish consistent communication rhythms, clear documentation, and timely feedback loops across all workstreams.
  • Own 360 timelines, milestones, and cross-team interdependencies to ensure seamless execution from strategy through delivery.

Sports & Soccer Operations Integration

  • Translate the realities of sports calendars, partner obligations, player/talent windows, and seasonal moments into actionable, integrated project plans.
  • Partner with the Sports Partnerships team to track rights usage, approvals, deadlines, and activation opportunities.

Quality, Consistency & Continuous Improvement

  • Protect the integrity of the soccer platform, ensuring consistency across all outputs and channels.
  • Identify process gaps, operational bottlenecks, and opportunities for improved speed and quality.
  • Build and share best practices that elevate how Chobani shows up in sports culture.

Key Traits

  • Deep understanding of sports and/or soccer ecosystems
  • Elite communicator and relationship-builder
  • Highly organized, structured thinker with a bias toward action
  • Energizing, adaptable leader who thrives in fast-moving environments
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complex cross-functional landscapes
  • Skilled in resolving challenges, clarifying paths forward, and keeping teams aligned

Requirements

  • 10+ years in program management, creative operations, integrated marketing, or sports/experiential production
  • Experience working on major sports or soccer properties preferred (brands, agencies, leagues, federations, clubs, tournaments)
  • Proven ability to lead large-scale, multi-channel programs with multiple stakeholders
  • Strong financial and resource management skills
  • Demonstrated success developing processes that improve organizational performance
  • Ability to manage external partners, negotiate scopes, and deliver excellence under tight timelines

About Us 

Chobani is a food maker with a mission of making high-quality and nutritious food accessible to more people, while elevating our communities and making the world a healthier place. In short: making good food for all. In support of this mission, Chobani is a purpose-driven, people-first, food-and-wellness-focused company, and has been since its founding in 2005 by Hamdi Ulukaya, an immigrant to the U.S. The Company manufactures yogurt, oat milk, and creamers – Chobani yogurt is America's No.1 yogurt brand, made with natural ingredients without artificial preservatives. Following the 2023 acquisition of La Colombe, a leading coffee roaster with a shared commitment to quality, craftmanship and impact, the Company began selling cold-pressed espresso and lattes on tap at cafés nationwide, as well as Ready to Drink (RTD) coffee beverages at retail. In 2025, Chobani acquired Daily Harvest, a modern brand offering consumers nutritious, delicious and convenient ready-to-make meals.

  
Chobani uses food as a force for good in the world – putting humanity first in everything it does. The company's philanthropic efforts prioritize giving back to its communities and beyond. Chobani manufactures its products in New York, Idaho, Michigan and Australia, and its products are available throughout North America and distributed in Australia and other select markets. 


For more information, please visit  www.chobani.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. 

 

Chobani is an equal opportunity employer. Chobani will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on any basis including, but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, military and/or veteran status, marital status, predisposing genetic characteristics and genetic information, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws.

 

Chobani provides a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision coverage, disability insurance, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, and tuition reimbursement. To help save for the future, all employees are eligible for a 401k match of 100% on up to 5% of eligible pay. To support growing families, we provide fertility and childcare assistance, and 12 weeks of parental leave at full pay after six months of continuous employment. In addition, we provide wellness resources which include an employee assistance program, fitness discounts, a wellness reimbursement, on-site gym access (certain locations) and a monthly wellness newsletter to connect you with resources and timely information. We offer various types of paid time of including: 120 hours of paid time off, 11 holidays, paid volunteer time off and military service leave.

 

Compensation Range: $125,000.00 - $188,000.00, plus bonus.


Nearest Major Market: Manhattan
Nearest Secondary Market: New York City