AI Development Platform Technical Project Manager

Role: AI Development Platform Technical Project Manager

Location: Alpharetta, GA - Need Locals

Description:

• 2 rounds of interviews (likely virtual)

Industry Background:

• Plus, but LARGE enterprise level company is a MUST

Hard Skills:

• 8+ Years of working as a TPM + Scrum Master + Coach

• Experience navigating enterprise organizations

• Influence without having direct managerial oversight

• Good familiarity with concepts and ability to stay on top of new tech news

• Transformation Exp

• Must have some level of GenAI exp -- even if it’s messing around with it at home

• Jira Exp

• Standard TPM/Scrum Exp

• Actively identify, manage, and resolve external dependencies and impediments across teams and stakeholders to ensure the squad remains focused and unblocked in its delivery

• Leverage tools such as JIRA to provide clear, transparent visibility into delivery status, risks, issues, and dependencies, enabling effective prioritization and decision making by Product Owners

• Ensure deliverables, expected outcomes, roles, and responsibilities are clearly defined and communicated, while remaining adaptable as priorities and team structures evolve

• Serve as a Scrum Master where appropriate, facilitating agile ceremonies and practices in a pragmatic way that supports delivery rather than imposing rigid process

• Partner closely with Product Owners and Tech Leads to incrementally improve planning discipline, backlog clarity, and delivery predictability over time

• Use metrics and tooling to surface trends and risks, focusing on actionable insights that help the team improve flow and execution

• Maintain lightweight but effective project documentation and stakeholder reporting aligned to the pace and maturity of the team

• Foster a collaborative, transparent team culture that encourages continuous improvement, learning, and shared ownership of outcomes

• Support the team’s gradual evolution toward mature, effective agile delivery, introducing structure and best practices incrementally as the team’s context and readiness evolve

Job Description:

• The AI Development Platform provides firmwide GenAI capabilities to enable the firm’s tech teams to develop and deploy GenAI solutions to meet desired business outcomes.

• This role is for a Technical Project Manager with a strong Scrum Master background, supporting a dynamic, fast?changing team.

• The individual will focus on keeping the team unblocked from external dependencies, ensuring clear visibility into delivery status, risks, and issues for Product Owners, and guiding a pragmatic, gradual evolution toward mature and effective agile delivery.

• The role requires comfort operating in ambiguity, adapting approaches over time, and balancing structure with flexibility to enable consistent outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Actively identify, manage, and resolve external dependencies and impediments across teams and stakeholders to ensure the squad remains focused and unblocked in its delivery

• Leverage tools such as JIRA and Roadmunk to provide clear, transparent visibility into delivery status, risks, issues, and dependencies, enabling effective prioritization and decision?making by Product Owners

• Ensure deliverables, expected outcomes, roles, and responsibilities are clearly defined and communicated, while remaining adaptable as priorities and team structures evolve

• Serve as a Scrum Master where appropriate, facilitating agile ceremonies and practices in a pragmatic way that supports delivery rather than imposing rigid process

• Partner closely with Product Owners and Tech Leads to incrementally improve planning discipline, backlog clarity, and delivery predictability over time

• Use metrics and tooling to surface trends and risks, focusing on actionable insights that help the team improve flow and execution

• Maintain lightweight but effective project documentation and stakeholder reporting aligned to the pace and maturity of the team

• Foster a collaborative, transparent team culture that encourages continuous improvement, learning, and shared ownership of outcomes

• Support the team’s gradual evolution toward mature, effective agile delivery, introducing structure and best practices incrementally as the team’s context and readiness evolve

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience driving delivery in complex, fast?changing environments

• Strong grounding in Scrum and agile principles, with the judgment to apply them flexibly

• Proven ability to manage dependencies, remove blockers, and improve delivery flow

• Ability to provide clear, concise communication of status, risks, and issues to Product Owners

• Deep expertise in JIRA and delivery tracking tools

• Ability to influence behavior and outcomes without formal authority

• Proven experience operating across siloed organizations, building alignment and cohesion to enable effective end?to?end delivery.

• Familiarity with GenAI, data, and compute infrastructure concepts

• Hands?on experience acting as a Scrum Master or agile delivery lead

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting teams as they evolve toward agile maturity, rather than operating only in fully mature agile environments

• Hands-on GenAI development experience

• Financial services or large?scale transformation experience

Qualifications:

• 8 years working as a technical project manager