Entertainment and Recreation Program Manager

Most days mix program coordination, project oversight, and stakeholder partnership — managing program scope and milestones across multiple projects, partnering with operations leaders on implementation, coordinating with marketing on launch readiness, supporting program risk management, and contributing to documentation. You're often working at theme parks, sports organizations, recreation operations, family entertainment companies, or specialty entertainment groups, and the program scope — annual programming, capital programs, brand initiatives — shapes daily work.

What tends to be harder than people expect is the breadth combined with operational stakes. Programs touch multiple operating venues or seasons, stakeholder politics across departments matter, and the gap between program plans and operational reality is real. PgMP, PMP, and operational credentials shape career growth at many shops.

People who tend to thrive here are organized, comfortable with cross-functional politics, fluent in both program and operational language, and patient with multi-project complexity. If you want hands-on operations or single-project depth, those are different paths. If you like leading programs that shape the entertainment or recreation experience over time, the role offers durable demand and a clear ladder toward program portfolio or operations leadership.