AI Project/Program Manager

Description -

Job Summary

• Role is responsible for driving governance, operational excellence, and portfolio visibility across the organization's Applied AI and Automation initiatives. The role partners closely with Delivery Managers, business stakeholders, and leadership to ensure consistent project execution, accurate portfolio reporting, effective resource capacity planning, and proactive risk management.
  
  

The position owns portfolio data integrity, executive dashboards, project milestone tracking, and cross-functional governance processes while ensuring timely reporting of project health, financial status, deliverables, and resource utilization. By establishing standardized reporting, maintaining high-quality project data, and providing actionable business insights, the role enables informed decision-making and supports the successful delivery of strategic transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Drive governance across the Applied AI and Automation portfolio by ensuring adherence to project management standards, governance processes, and reporting frameworks.
• Partner with Delivery Managers to monitor project execution, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and mitigation plans across multiple strategic initiatives.
• Own portfolio reporting, executive dashboards, KPI tracking, and management reporting to provide leadership with accurate and timely business insights.
• Maintain portfolio data quality and project data hygiene across multiple enterprise systems, ensuring consistency and reporting accuracy.
• Manage project schedules, deliverables, milestones, and action items while proactively following up with project teams to ensure timely completion.
• Coordinate portfolio planning activities, including resource capacity planning, utilization reporting, demand forecasting, and workforce allocation.
• Consolidate project information from multiple enterprise platforms to provide comprehensive portfolio health reporting and executive visibility.
• Facilitate governance reviews, portfolio review meetings, executive steering committees, and leadership updates.
• Track project financial metrics, budget utilization, and forecasting, providing transparent reporting to leadership.
• Establish standardized reporting templates, governance processes, and portfolio management best practices across the organization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Delivery Managers, Product Owners, Engineering, Business Operations, PMOs, Finance, and executive leadership to ensure alignment on priorities and delivery commitments.
• Monitor project risks, dependencies, and escalations while driving timely resolution through effective stakeholder coordination.
• Support strategic planning, portfolio prioritization, and executive decision-making by providing accurate operational metrics and business insights.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying reporting automation opportunities and leveraging Applied AI solutions to improve operational efficiency.
  
  

Education & Experience Recommended

• Bahelors degree, Business Administration, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 7-12 years of work experience, preferably in engineering development and implementation, project planning tools and software packages,
  
  

Preferred Certifications

NA

Knowledge & Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Automation
• Change Management
• Continuous Improvement Process
• JIRA/ADO
• Milestones (Project Management)
• Project Management
• Project Planning
• Project Schedules
• Risk Management
• Scrum (Software Development)
• Sprint Planning
  
  

Cross-Org Skills

• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity
  
  

Impact & Scope

• Impacts multiple teams and may act as a team or project leader providing direction to team activities and facilitates information validation and team decision making process.
  
  

Complexity

• Responds to moderately complex issues within established guidelines.
  
  

Disclaimer

• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.
  
  

Job -

Engineering

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (India)

Travel -

Relocation -

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