AI Project Manager

job summary:

We are seeking an experienced AI Project Manager to lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of a portfolio of AI-enabled initiatives across Marketing & Communications. This role will translate business priorities into executable delivery plans, align marketing owners with AI Development teams primarily based in Ireland, and ensure that initiatives move from idea and scoping through build, pilot, adoption, and measurable business value.

location: New York, New York

job type: Contract

salary: $58.96 - 68.96 per hour

work hours:

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

• Develop, communicate, and maintain integrated project and portfolio plans, including scope, milestones, dependencies, resourcing, decision points, and delivery risks.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across business, architecture, engineering, data, testing, security, vendors, and offshore / distributed delivery resources throughout the project life cycle.
• Establish clear accountability for each initiative, confirm responsibilities, track commitments, and hold team members and partners accountable for agreed deliverables.
• Partner with Marketing Owners to clarify the business problem, define requirements, establish acceptance criteria, secure sign-off, and maintain alignment to expected outcomes and KPIs.
• Manage critical dependencies, especially data quality and readiness, platform integration, workflow simplification, architecture, and availability of subject-matter experts.
• Drive responsible AI delivery by ensuring human-in-the-loop checkpoints and incorporating brand, legal, compliance, privacy, security, and governance requirements into workflows before deployment.
• Oversee pilots, proofs of concept, testing, release readiness, implementation, and transition to sustainable operating support; ensure build and system documentation is complete.
• Lead adoption and change-management activities, including communications, training, champion engagement, feedback loops, and measurement of user adoption and business impact.
• Monitor progress through regular status meetings and insightful reporting; communicate status, decisions, risks, issues, and required escalations to sponsors and stakeholders.
• Facilitate gateway reviews for business-critical initiatives and make sure decisions, assumptions, actions, and approvals are documented and traceable.

qualifications:

Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional technology, data, digital, automation, or AI-enabled initiatives from definition through implementation.

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with competing priorities, changing requirements, and distributed teams.

Strong project planning, dependency management, risk and issue management, status reporting, meeting facilitation, and executive communication skills.

Experience working with business owners, technical delivery teams, architecture, data teams, vendors, and subject-matter experts.

Practical understanding of AI delivery concepts, including data quality, integrations, experimentation, model or solution validation, privacy, security, and responsible AI governance.

Experience defining KPIs, acceptance criteria, benefits measures, and adoption plans for new products, platforms, or operating processes.

Ability to work independently with limited supervision, exercise sound judgment, and create structure in ambiguous environments.

Comfort working across Ireland and U.S. time zones, with the flexibility to maintain regular collaboration windows with both teams.

(Preferred) PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or comparable project / product delivery certification.

skills:

Agile,AI solutions,AI-enabled,PRINCE2,Scrum,system documentation,integrations,communications,Coordinate,Ability to work independently,business impact,acceptance criteria,architecture,automation,brand,PMP,change-management,responsible AI,data quality,dependency management,experimentation,executive communication skills,governance,issue management,Marketing,measurement,meeting facilitation,offshore,project life cycle,project planning,resource constraints,risks,risk,security,testing,user adoption,workflows

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.