We are hiring a Project Manager to own delivery of data engineering and AI-native product/engineering programs sponsored by client CTO organizations platform modernization and AI features embedded directly into products.

Key Responsibilities

- Own delivery of CTO-sponsored product and platform engineering programs
- Interface with product engineering leadership, architects, and platform/DevOps teams
- Own release planning and sprint governance across multiple engineering pods
- Manage delivery of AI-native product features — agentification, copilot features, embedded AI
- Track engineering velocity, quality, and technical risk at the program level
- Maintain project plans, timelines, and resource allocation across workstreams
- Track budget vs. actuals and report variances to leadership
- Own the RAID log (risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies) and drive mitigation
- Manage scope changes through formal change control and impact assessment
- Facilitate sprint/iteration ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retros) where applicable

Required Skills

- 10+ years of project management experience,



including 5+ years managing data engineering/AI delivery
- Experience working directly with enterprise CTO/product engineering organizations
- Familiarity with the software engineering lifecycle, CI/CD, and cloud-native architectures
- Experience managing delivery of AI-native product features (LLM integration, agentic workflows)
- PMP certification and an Agile/Scrum certification are an added advantage

Non-Negotiables

- Consulting mindset — engages client stakeholders as a trusted advisor, not a scheduler or order-taker
- Can go deep enough into the engineering problem to unblock it, not just track it on a plan
- Fundamentally strong in project management principles — scope, schedule, budget, risk, and governance
- Excellent stakeholder management across technical, business, and executive layers
- PMP and an Agile/Scrum certification (CSM, PMI-ACP, Protected) are an added advantage, not mandatory

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