AI/ML Program Manager

OpenKyber is searching for a Senior Program Manager for a Contract assignment with one of our premier Regulatory clients in Rockville, MD. This position is hybrid (3 days per week onsite) - Tysons or Rockville (preferred) office Must be local to DC Metro area.

• Strategy - Help frame program strategy, aligned to organizational goals and objectives, including measurement (OKRs, KPIs).
• Governance - Maintain program governance structure and related mechanisms for steering, decision-making, and escalation.
• Engagement - Coordinate program conversations at the right level and cadence . Publish notes and action items.
• Sense-making - Own program narrative; synthesize details into high-impact artifacts tuned to audience and purpose.
• Monitoring - Enable comprehensive program health and status monitoring, including a framework for aggregating key results from multiple projects across the enterprise.
• Schedule management - Ensure roadmap / schedule integrity, including process for "business critical milestones" and key results reported at the CxO level. Monitor for and resolve items near or past due, date changes, stoplight changes, etc.
• Financials - Support capital planning, budgeting, forecasting, variance tracking, and related reporting including labor, cloud, vendor, software license, and other costs for initiatives. Coordinate setup of project codes.
• Exceptions - Facilitate risk, issue, change, dependency, and critical decisions management.
• Business cases - Drive end-to-end business case process - initiative funding pipeline ( "FITS"), template utilization, incremental dates leading to each monthly business case review, stakeholder touchpoints, and feedback / approval forums.
• Vendor management - Support third-party due diligence, selection, contract execution, and oversight.
• Collaboration - Organize and maintain program collaboration and knowledge / work management infrastructure - example tools: Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Teams, Miro.
• Administration - Provide administrative and logistical support such as roster and cost center management, meeting scheduling, team calendar management, conference planning, distribution list maintenance, etc.

• Has bachelor's degree, preferably with a STEM or Finance element.
• Has 5 years of experience and demonstrated proficiency in technology portfolio / program / project management.
• Has 3 years of experience with agile (Scrum, SAFe , LESS, Kanban, etc.).
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence
• Demonstrates strong analysis, synthesis, and communication skills, and delivers high quality work product.
• Can navigate between big picture and detail, abstractions and specifics.
• Is adaptable, independent, and thrives in a hybrid environment without a central PMO.
• Is hands-on with collaboration infrastructure - expected to work directly in knowledge repositories (Confluence, SharePoint), work management systems (Jira, MS-Dynamics), BI and analytics tools (Excel, PowerBI), digital whiteboarding (Miro), communications tech (Zoom, Teams).
• Domain experience a plus: financial services, big data, data science, advanced analytics, AI / ML / LLM.

OpenKyber is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach.

Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work.

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