program director

American  

noun

Radio and Television.

1. a chief executive responsible for selecting and scheduling programs.

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Etymology

Origin of program director

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Giavanna Vega, a former entry-level recruiter and internship program director at Automation Anywhere, which streamlines business processes, described the hiring environment as at a standstill.

From The Wall Street Journal

Brad Handler is the program director of the Institutes’s Energy Finance Lab.

From Barron's

"Biya now has a notably shaky mandate given many of his own citizens don't believe he won the election," Murithi Mutiga, Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group, said in a statement.

From BBC

Nikhil Kumar, program director with the energy policy nonprofit GridLab, said the technology already exists for longer-duration batteries, including through different chemistries such as iron-air batteries, which release energy through oxidation, and flow batteries, which store energy in liquid chemicals that flow through a reactor.

From Los Angeles Times

A documentary producer was hired as the project’s program director and was succeeded by a recent college graduate.

From The Wall Street Journal