Agile Program Manager

Senior Manager APM (Agile Program Manager, AI Platform)

Employment Type: Freelance contract with potential to convert to a full-time role

Location: Boston, MA — 4 days per week on-site

Pay: $65/hr.

Contract term: Expected through May 2027, with the potential to transition to a full-time position.

We are seeking an accomplished Agile Program Manager to lead delivery for an enterprise AI platform and the portfolio of intelligent agents built on it. This is a hands-on leadership opportunity for someone who can bring structure, momentum, and technical fluency to complex AI initiatives across engineering, security, infrastructure, and business stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

• Own the roadmap, release planning, and delivery cadence for a multi-team AI platform.
• Coordinate dependencies across platform engineering, security, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure predictable execution.
• Lead intake and prioritization of AI agent use cases, translating business needs into clearly scoped, sequenced backlog items.
• Establish production-readiness gates covering evaluation results, security testing, observability, identity and secrets controls, and rollback planning.
• Partner with business sponsors and technical teams to turn enterprise constraints into practical delivery decisions.
• Define governance, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and audit-ready evidence for reliable, compliant AI solutions.
• Track and communicate meaningful outcomes, including adoption, quality, delivery speed, incidents, and cost efficiency.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of program, product, or delivery management experience leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Strong command of scaled Agile practices, including release planning, dependency management, and multi-team delivery.
• Working knowledge of AI agent ecosystems, including LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, orchestration, tool calling, evaluations, and guardrails.
• Technical fluency with SQL and the ability to interpret logs, telemetry, and evaluation results.
• Experience using AI tools to improve delivery efficiency, documentation, analysis, or team productivity.
• Familiarity with Azure environments and enterprise controls such as identity, network security, secrets management, and change approval.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, or related enterprise AI platforms.
• Exposure to AI evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, red teaming, and responsible AI release processes.
• Background supporting production platforms, including SLOs, incident management, and operational readiness.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment.

Ideal Candidate

You are a proactive, detail-oriented program leader who identifies delivery risks early and drives teams toward clear, evidence-based outcomes. You are equally comfortable engaging senior stakeholders and technical practitioners, bringing the judgment, discipline, and client presence needed to move high-impact AI programs from concept to production.