AI Program Manager

Job Title: AI Program Manager

Job Location: Redmond, WA

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Pay Range: $50hr - $55hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• 6 8 years of experience in Program Management or Technical Program Management.
• Functional experience with AI programs and AI-related skills.
• Hands-on experience working in Agile and Scrum delivery models.
• Proven ability to capture and document requirements as features, epics, and user stories.
• Experience managing business stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and complex dependencies.
• Strong risk management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence without authority.
• Experience owning end-to-end delivery of multiple cross-functional programs involving AI initiatives and integrated enterprise systems.
• Strong ability to facilitate requirement-gathering workshops and translate business needs into clear, actionable deliverables.
• Experience establishing and maintaining program governance, milestones, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Ability to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate program risks and issues.
• Strong backlog management and prioritization experience in partnership with Product Owners.
• Ability to ensure requirements are functionally sound, scalable, and aligned with enterprise best practices.
• Strong understanding of AI-related technologies and agentic AI concepts.
• Product Owner expertise.

• 6 8 years of experience in Program Management or Technical Program Management.
• Experience leading AI programs and cross-functional enterprise initiatives.
• Experience working with Agile and Scrum teams in delivery-focused environments.
• Experience translating business requirements into features, epics, and user stories for AI solutions.

• Own end-to-end delivery of multiple cross-functional programs involving AI initiatives and integrated enterprise systems.
• Drive program planning, execution, tracking, and reporting across Agile and Scrum teams.
• Establish and maintain program governance, milestones, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate program risks and issues.
• Act as the primary interface between business stakeholders, product teams, and engineering teams.
• Facilitate requirement-gathering workshops and translate business needs into clear, actionable deliverables.
• Manage stakeholder expectations through transparent communication, status updates, and escalation management.
• Ensure alignment between business priorities and technical delivery plans.
• Capture business requirements and translate them into features, epics, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Partner with Product Owners to maintain a prioritized and well-groomed backlog.
• Ensure requirements are functionally sound, scalable, and aligned with enterprise best practices.
• Support Agile and Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Track sprint progress, delivery risks, and dependencies across teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in Agile execution, predictability, and delivery quality.
• Articulate business requirements and create features and user stories for AI solutions.
• Provide functional leadership in AI-related technologies and agentic AI capabilities.

• Strong techno-functional understanding of AI-related technologies and solutions.
• Familiarity with agentic AI concepts and AI skills-based solution delivery.
• Strong Product Owner mindset and backlog ownership capabilities.
• Experience working with integrated enterprise systems in large-scale environments.

• Program Management.
• Technical Program Management.
• AI Program Delivery.
• Agile.
• Scrum.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Requirements Gathering.
• Business Analysis.
• Backlog Management.
• User Stories.
• Epics.
• Features.
• Risk Management.
• Delivery Governance.
• Cross-Functional Leadership.
• Product Ownership.
• Agentic AI.
• Communication Skills.
• Enterprise Systems.