AI Project Manager

I have a full time opportunity for an AI Project Manager to join one of our leading investment banks in Midtown Manhattan. This role will report directly to the Director of the PMO and work with a team of highly skilled engineering teams. As a key enabler of the firm’s AI agenda, the role partners closely with technology, data, and business leaders to drive alignment, execution discipline, and transparency across multiple AI initiatives. Operating within a lean, high-impact team, it offers significant exposure to senior leadership and requires a proactive, low-ego program manager with strong technical fluency and the ability to coordinate complex, cross-functional work in a highly regulated environment.

Onsite hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

This role comes with a very generous base salary and employee benefits package!!

Responsibilities:

• Manage delivery of a portfolio of AI initiatives, coordinating timelines, dependencies, and risks across multiple teams and regions.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans, including roadmaps, milestones, resource assumptions, and delivery sequencing.
• Establish and run program governance routines, including status reporting, risk and issue tracking, decision logs, and escalation processes.
• Maintain portfolio-level artifacts such as RAID logs, dependency maps, delivery dashboards, and executive updates.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and vendor coordination in partnership with Technology and Business Management teams.
• Act as a central coordination point across Technology, Data & Analytics, Information Security, Model Risk, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and business stakeholders.
• Facilitate working sessions to clarify requirements, align priorities, and resolve delivery trade-offs.
• Ensure stakeholders remain aligned on scope, sequencing, risks, and readiness for deployment.
• Translate strategic objectives into clear, executable workplans, backlogs, and release plans across multiple AI workstreams.
• Partner with Data Science and Engineering teams to track delivery progress, testing readiness, and production rollouts.
• Coordinate functional and non-functional testing activities, including model validation, security reviews, and operational readiness checks.
• Support go-live planning and post-launch stabilization, ensuring issues are tracked and addressed.
• Help define and track agreed-upon KPIs (e.g., usage, time saved, quality improvements), consolidating insights for leadership.
• Contribute to the development of standard templates, playbooks, and delivery practices to improve consistency across AI initiatives.
• Strong command of program management fundamentals: planning, sequencing, dependency management, risk and issue management, and executive reporting.
• Experience applying both Agile and hybrid delivery approaches in complex enterprise environments.
• Comfortable managing ambiguity while maintaining structure and forward momentum.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to synthesize complex inputs into clear, actionable updates.
• Skilled at facilitating discussions, driving alignment, and escalating issues constructively when needed.
• Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, model lifecycles, and data quality considerations.
• Familiarity with generative AI, intelligent automation, and enterprise data platforms common in financial services.
• Understanding of software delivery practices (Agile, testing, release management) as applied to AI solutions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• AI, data, or cloud certifications are a plus.
• Solid experience across technology, data, banking, consulting, or risk functions.
• 3 years managing complex programs or projects involving data, analytics, AI, or digital platforms in a regulated environment.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multi-workstream initiatives with senior stakeholder visibility.

Lori Sklarski

Senior Technical Recruiter, PRI Technology

Lori.sklarski@pritechnology.com

Direct:(973)-354-2797

Office: 973.732.5454 x27

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