Get to know The Pokémon Company International
The Pokémon Company International manages the Pokémon property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management, licensing and marketing, the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the animated TV series, home entertainment, and the official Pokémon website. Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the most popular children’s entertainment properties in the world.
Learn more online at corporate.pokemon.com and pokemon.com.
Get to know the role
The Senior Program Manager will help shape and enable the next phase of organizational growth and evolution. This role will partner closely with senior business leaders and the People Team to design scalable organizational structures, strengthen leadership and workforce capabilities, and build long-term talent strategies that support business objectives.
The role will primarily support leaders and teams across Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Distribution functions, helping build the organizational structures, capabilities, leadership depth, and workforce plans necessary to support future business scale.
The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, organizational design expertise, workforce planning capabilities, and strong program management skills. They are comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing senior leaders, and translating business strategy into practical people solutions that improve organizational effectiveness and accelerate execution.
This role will play a key part in ensuring our organization can scale sustainably by strengthening leadership effectiveness, building critical capabilities, identifying succession risks, and creating operating models that increase organizational resilience.
FLSA Classification (US Only): Exempt
People Manager: No
What you’ll do
Organizational Design & Workforce Planning
- Lead organization design efforts that align structure, roles, and decision-making with current and future business needs.
- Assess organizational health, effectiveness, spans and layers, role clarity, and operating model design.
- Develop future-state organizational models that support multi-year business strategies and operational scale.
- Facilitate organization design workshops and strategic planning sessions with senior leaders.
- Own the workforce planning strategy and roadmap for supported functions, translating business priorities into talent, capability, and organizational plans that build capacity for current and future needs.
- Create workforce scenarios and recommendations to support long-term organizational growth and evolution.
- Evaluate organizational risks, dependencies, and capacity constraints that may limit scale or execution.
Critical Role Strategy & Succession Planning
- Identify critical roles and organizational dependencies across key functions and business areas.
- Develop succession frameworks, readiness assessments, contingency plans, and talent pipelines for business-critical positions.
- Partner with business leaders to assess talent risks and establish mitigation strategies.
- Own the strategy for organizational resilience by developing succession depth, contingency plans, knowledge continuity approaches, and critical talent pipelines for key business capabilities.
- Monitor succession health and organizational continuity indicators.
Capability & Leadership Development
- Own the capability strategy for supported business functions, identifying critical current and future skills, assessing readiness, and developing plans to build organizational capacity over time.
- Design and implement capability frameworks and skill strategies aligned to evolving business priorities.
- Lead the design and coordination of capability-building plans through a network of People Team partners, business leaders, and learning resources to ensure critical skills are developed at scale.
- Establish methods for measuring capability maturity and readiness across teams and functions.
- Support leaders in building high-performing teams equipped to operate effectively at increased scale and complexity.
Enterprise Alignment & Program Leadership
- Partner across the People Team to connect business-specific needs with enterprise talent, leadership, learning, and organizational development initiatives.
- Determine where enterprise solutions can be leveraged versus where tailored approaches are required.
- Establish governance, milestones, success measures, and reporting mechanisms for strategic people initiatives.
- Translate business strategy into actionable organizational and talent priorities.
- Develop executive-level insights, analyses, recommendations, and presentations for senior leadership.
What you’ll bring
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in organizational effectiveness, organization design, strategy, management consulting, talent management, workforce planning, HR transformation, or related disciplines.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional programs involving multiple stakeholders and executive leaders.
- Experience designing organizations, operating models, workforce plans, or capability strategies.
- Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and advise senior leaders.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.
- Experience translating business strategy into people, talent, and organizational solutions.
Preferred
- Advanced degree in Business, Organizational Development, Human Resources, or related field.
- Experience supporting large-scale business transformation, growth, integration, or organizational change initiatives.
- Experience with succession planning, talent strategy, leadership development, and capability building.
- Consulting experience or internal strategy experience.
- Knowledge of organization design methodologies, workforce planning frameworks, and change management principles
Base Salary Range: For this role, new hires generally start between $116,445 - $154,934 per year. The full range is $116,445 - $209,732 per year. This range is applicable for the labor market where the role is intended to be hired. The final base salary is directly related to the candidate’s qualifications and professional experience uniquely.
How you’ll be successful
- Passion for Pokémon: Develops an understanding of the Pokémon brand, the impact it has on our people, culture, business, fans, and communities, and applying that knowledge and passion to everything you do.
- Challenging the Expected: Approaches challenges with curiosity and creativity, embracing the possibility of failure as an opportunity to learn something new, develop innovative ideas, solve complex problems and identify unique opportunities.
- Integrity and Respect: Demonstrates integrity and respect by leading with empathy, listening to others, seeking out different perspectives, and taking personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and results.
- Dedicated to Quality: Takes ownership to maintain and promote high standards, looks for new ways to learn and improve, and embraces a growth mindset to seek and apply feedback from others in an effort to continuously improve.
- Building Relationships: Develops and strengthens relationships, adopting a “team first” mentality and working collaboratively to solve problems and meet shared goals.
- Delighting Customers: Listens and understands the interests and needs of our customers and stakeholders, making them feel heard and important, and embracing these learnings to continue delivering a unique Pokémon experience.
What to expect
- An innovative culture driven by impact, delivering meaningful outcomes.
- Company events that celebrate the spirit of Pokémon.
- Competitive cash-based compensation programs.
- 100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for you.
- Generous paid family leave.
- Employer-paid life insurance.
- Employer-paid long and short-term income protection insurance.
- US Employees: 401k Employer Matching.
- UK/IRE/MX Employees: Pension Employer Contributions.
- Fitness reimbursement.
- Commuter benefit.
- LinkedIn learning.
- Comprehensive relocation package for certain roles.
- Hybrid work environment.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this role. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. For roles in the United Kingdom, candidates will need the right to work. In some cases, and for some roles, the Company may be able to arrange a visa. For roles in Ireland, this role requires candidates to have the right to live and work in the Republic of Ireland. However, we welcome applications from all nationalities and may consider supporting an employment permit application, in appropriate and suitable cases.
The Pokémon Company International is committed to the inclusion of all qualified applicants for consideration in our job application process. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview, or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at accommodationrequest_ta@pokemon.com.
