Senior IT Project Manager

Job#: 3044400

Job Description:
Senior IT Project Manager

Location: Bolingbrook, Illinois (Onsite)

Position Summary

The Senior AI Technical Project Manager leads end-to-end execution of complex artificial intelligence initiatives across a matrixed enterprise environment. The role owns delivery planning, integrated timelines, dependency management, stakeholder communications, delivery governance, and execution transparency. It partners closely with AI/Data Science practice leads, AI Architecture, Engineering, Product, QA/Responsible AI, and Enterprise AI portfolio leadership to move solutions from concept through production readiness and business adoption. This role succeeds through influence, technical fluency, and disciplined orchestration-not through direct authority over discipline staffing or ownership of architecture, model design, or product decisions.

Role Mandate

• Create a single, credible delivery plan across AI, data science, architecture, engineering, testing, product, and business workstreams.
• Establish operating cadence, decision forums, quality checkpoints, escalation paths, and portfolio-level visibility.
• Identify and resolve cross-team risks and dependencies early while ensuring accountable leaders make the decisions reserved for their disciplines.
• Drive consistent AI delivery practices and standards across the portfolio in partnership with functional and portfolio leaders.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Execution

• Own integrated planning, milestones, release timelines, critical path, assumptions, and dependency tracking across multiple pods or workstreams.
• Lead delivery ceremonies, working sessions, decision reviews, and executive status communications; maintain accurate RAID and action logs.
• Coordinate cross-pod capacity needs and surface constraints; partner with discipline leaders who retain resource-allocation authority.
• Maintain delivery momentum by clarifying ownership, sequencing work, driving follow-through, and escalating unresolved blockers.

Test, Quality, and Production Readiness

• Orchestrate test governance and lifecycle integration from design through deployment, in partnership with Engineering and the Testing Center of Excellence.
• Facilitate definition and adoption of measurable quality-gate criteria for "production ready," including functional, technical, operational, data, model, security, and Responsible AI considerations.
• Coordinate defect taxonomy, severity standards, triage cadence, remediation ownership, and release-impact decisions.
• Plan and manage UAT and business sign-off; ensure the Product Owner or designated business authority makes the final acceptance decision.

Delivery Governance

• Run portfolio-level quality reviews and ensure required evidence, risks, exceptions, and decisions are visible to Enterprise AI leadership.
• Coordinate cross-pod quality-gate approvals while preserving technical approval authority with Engineering and/or Architecture leaders.
• Route cross-pod conflicts to the appropriate portfolio or functional leader, document decisions, and track resolution to closure.
• Define, socialize, and continuously improve AI delivery practices, templates, controls, metrics, and standards across the portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, business, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 7+ years of technical project/program management experience delivering complex, cross-functional technology initiatives, including 2+ years supporting AI, machine learning, data science, or generative AI solutions.
• Demonstrated success managing multi-team delivery in a matrixed organization without relying on direct reporting authority.
• Strong command of Agile, hybrid, and product-oriented delivery practices, including release planning, dependency management, RAID management, and executive reporting.
• Working knowledge of the AI solution lifecycle, including data readiness, experimentation, model evaluation, integration, testing, deployment, monitoring, and Responsible AI controls.
• Excellent facilitation, negotiation, conflict-resolution, written communication, and executive presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering generative AI, large language model, RAG, conversational AI, recommendation, computer vision, or predictive analytics solutions.
• Familiarity with cloud AI platforms, APIs, data platforms, MLOps/LLMOps, CI/CD, observability, security, privacy, and model governance.
• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Scrum, or comparable delivery certification.
• Experience in retail, consumer, digital commerce, loyalty, marketing technology, or other high-volume customer-facing environments.

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