Enterprise Program Manager

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Why Protolabs?
We are the leaders in digital manufacturing. We hire doers, makers, and creative thinkers who tackle our roles with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our culture is centered around meaningful work that brings new and innovative products to market at unprecedented speeds. We are a diverse team that comes from all walks of life and take pride in our team who is smart, genuine, humble, and passionate about what we do. It’s our people who fuel our creativity and make our culture feel like home.

Join our team as an Enterprise Program Manager !

This is a hybrid role being onsite at HQ in Maple Plain, MN on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

The Enterprise Program Manager is a catalyst for company-wide impact—driving high‑visibility, cross‑functional programs that shape the future of the organization. In this strategic role, you’ll architect and lead complex initiatives that connect business goals with technology innovation, operational excellence, and scalable processes across teams including technology, operations, manufacturing, finance, and go‑to‑market.

As a trusted partner to senior leaders, you’ll bring clarity, structure, and momentum to enterprise priorities—building governance frameworks, elevating communication, and ensuring flawless execution. If you thrive on navigating complexity, influencing across levels, and delivering outcomes that move the business forward, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact.

What You'll Do:
• Define program scope, goals, success metrics, and deliverables that support business objectives

• Partner with senior leadership to align enterprise programs with organizational strategy and priorities

• Develop and maintain enterprise program roadmaps, business cases, and execution plans

• Manage multiple programs and initiatives in parallel, ensuring teams focus on the correct priorities and deliverables. Hold task owners accountable to progress and delivery to ensure efficient and successful execution

• Establish governance structures and reporting mechanisms for program performance and risk management

• Drive adherence to enterprise program management standards, methodologies, and best practices

• Monitor and report on program progress, milestones, and financials to executive stakeholders

• Lead cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution of interdependent projects within the program

• Manage resource allocation, budgets, timelines, and deliverables across multiple workstreams. Tracks expenditures and ensures costs are aligned with forecasts and deviations are communicated and managed. Provides awareness of estimate/ budget updates and variances

• Identify risks, dependencies, and change impacts; develop mitigation strategies to ensure program success

• Serve as the primary liaison between business leaders, project teams, and key stakeholders

• Facilitate effective communication, engagement, and decision-making across all levels of the organization

• Balances the needs and expectations of diverse groups while driving alignment and adoption of enterprise initiatives through clear messaging and stakeholder collaboration

• Evaluate program outcomes and proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement in governance, tools, and processes and implement changes

• Mentor and train project managers and program team members in enterprise delivery standards and leadership practices

• Other duties as assigned

What It Takes :
• Bachelor’s degree in business, management, information technology or a related area or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 5+ years of direct program or project management in enterprise-level or large-scale initiatives

• Experience managing complex programs consisting of multiple projects with multiple inter-dependencies

• Experience indirectly/directly leading cross functional teams to deliver on highly complex programs

• Experience with standard project management tools and dashboards

• Experience in delivering programs in a matrixed organization

• Innate sense of accountability/responsibility for successful delivery

• Strong influence, organizational, critical thinking, and analytical skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities

• Skilled in engaging and communicating with a diverse range of individuals at varying levels, including software developers, engineers, executives, manufacturing staff, and other business professionals

• Financial acumen and experience managing large program budgets

• Ability to navigate organizational complexity and drive cross-functional collaboration

• Effective and adaptable style that aligns with the Protolabs culture, emphasizing collaboration, flexibility, innovation, and results orientation

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build trusted relationships across the organization

• Experience with enterprise delivery frameworks (Agile, hybrid, or waterfall) and transformation programs

• Formal project management training

What Makes You Stand Out:
• PMI, PMP or PgMP certification

• Understanding of websites, client-server applications, software architectures

• Experience in managing enterprise-wide projects (e.g. CRM, ERP)

• Working knowledge of digital manufacturing

What's in it for you:
• We offer a competitive salary and annual bonus opportunity

• In addition, we offer amazing benefits including but not limited to:

• Health Insurance: Traditional OR High Deductible plan

• Flexible Spending Accounts

• Health Savings Account (including employer contributions)

• Dental and Vision

• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

• Paid caregiver leave

• You will receive at least 3 weeks of PTO + Wellness Hours + Holiday Pay + Volunteer Hours

• 401k with company match and immediate vest

• Employee Stock Purchase Program at a 15% discounted rate

• Matching grants through Protolabs foundation

• And More!

Proto Labs maintains ITAR-compliant operations in all of our United States based facilities. Due to ITAR regulations, this role is only open to U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders) or foreign nationals granted refugee or asylee status. Individuals with temporary visas (e.g. E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, TN or OPT) are not eligible for hire in this role.

Proto Labs, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Physical Demands:
While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use a computer keyboard, monitor and mouse, telephone and printer; reach with hands, and arms, talk, see and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop or kneel and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Work Environment:
Indoors (A/C); nonsmoking; the majority of this job function is performed in an office setting requiring normal safety precautions. However, there may be job duties that require the employee to spend time in the manufacturing areas exposed to machinery and noise; eye protection occasionally required. Occasionally works in outside weather conditions. Occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.