Senior IT PROJECT MANAGER

Job Overview

This role combines classical project-management principles with AI product-ownership. Its important to understand, drive and deliver projects from project initiation to closure. As an AI product project owner you must manage and set stakeholder expectations, communicate effectively and plan/manage tasks, resources and timeline effectively to successfully deliver projects and ensure value-creation after delivery.

Responsibilities

• Owns discovery of business, data, and process requirements, including downstream change impacts
• Translates business problems into AI solvable questions
• Ensures AI work creates real business value, not just technical output
• Owns AI solution success across its lifecycle, including post deployment monitoring and value realization
• Ensures responsible AI principles (fairness, transparency, explainability) are considered and escalated where needed
• Aligns data readiness and ownership with AI delivery milestones
• Collaborates with CIOs and BU Senior-managements to own use case selection and prioritization
• Owns the tracking of success metrics (ROI, efficiency, risk reduction) also after solution-delivery
• Decides build vs buy vs stop including proper escalation mechanism
• Drive and participate in the testing and user-acceptance phases
• Plan project timeline and milestones
• Collaborate with AI and data architects to create work break down
• Identifies and mitigates delivery, data, and AI specific risks (e.g. bias, drift, adoption)
• Monitor and control project progress
• Ensure effective and proactive/structured communication
• Drive projects to closure as planned
• Support team with documentation
• Mentor and support junior team members

Education / Knowledge

Bachelors degree - Any

Knowledge of project management techniques tools

Knowledge of AI technology and tools

Knowledge of basic IT development platform and technology stacks

Qualifications / Experience

• PMP or Scrum Master certification (good to have)
• IT Project Management Experience
• Agile Development experience
• 12+ years of overall experience
• 7+ years of Project Management Experience

Competencies

SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)