About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Manager, AI Program Management based in the United States. This is a high-ownership leadership role responsible for building an AI program-management function from the ground up. This remote-friendly role is designed for a hands-on program leader who can build a new function while keeping complex AI initiatives focused on measurable business impact.
Responsibilities
- Build and establish the AI program-management function, including standards, operating rhythms, templates, portfolio reporting, intake, prioritization, decision tracking, and delivery governance.
- Partner with senior AI leadership to translate strategy into an actionable roadmap covering AI platforms, agent products, governance, observability, adoption, and business use cases.
- Transform loosely defined opportunities into structured program charters covering problem statements, expected value, ownership, scope, dependencies, milestones, success metrics, and definitions of done.
- Develop and maintain a portfolio view of AI initiatives.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex AI programs involving engineering, data, security, legal, enterprise architecture, product, and business teams.
- Own the intake and prioritization process.
- Work directly with delivery teams to gather progress, deliverables, and artifacts.
- Establish a repeatable AI delivery lifecycle spanning discovery, data readiness, pilot development, evaluation, production launch, adoption, and ongoing measurement.
- Drive alignment around requirements, risks, dependencies, decisions, and timelines.
- Prepare executive-level communications.
- Establish measurement standards covering adoption, quality, reliability, cost, risk, and realized business value.
- Partner with technical leaders to incorporate architecture, integrations, data access, evaluation, security, governance, operational support, and change-management considerations.
- Establish operating cadences such as weekly delivery reviews, monthly portfolio and value reviews, and executive steering updates.
- Mentor future program and project managers.
- Help organize and deliver initiatives involving enterprise AI platforms, AWS foundations, MCP and enterprise-tool integrations, AI observability, evaluation, governance, cost management, agentic business solutions, adoption, training, and change management.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in program management, product management, transformation, portfolio management, or a related discipline.
- Meaningful experience delivering AI, data, analytics, cloud-platform, automation, or enterprise-software initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience building or significantly improving a PMO, program-management practice, product operations function, or portfolio-management model.
- Strong ability to turn ambiguity into structured, practical plans.
- Experience working with technical teams and understanding data, integrations, cloud infrastructure, security, software delivery, and production operations.
- Strong executive presence and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong business orientation.
- Hands-on working style.
- Strong judgment regarding when to standardize, when to experiment, and when to stop initiatives.
- Ability to operate effectively in a lean, evolving environment.
- Preferred experience leading enterprise AI, data, or digital-transformation portfolios.
- Experience in consulting, research, technology, SaaS, professional services, or data-products.