Senior Digital Project Manager (AI product, 12-month contract)

Saatchi & Saatchi is seeking a Senior Digital/Technical Project Manager for an innovative AI platform initiative starting immediately. We are looking for someone with a producers mindset the instincts of a VFX producer game producer or hands-on product owner paired with strong technical fluency who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
You translate between engineering design business and clients and you build and carry the mental model of what the platform is what it needs next and how every piece relates. You operate calmly in a fast-moving multi-stakeholder environment that spans agencies holding-company partners and global Publicis teams.

This is a full-time (40h/week) 12-month contract position.

• Hold and maintain the technical mental model of the platform what is built what is being built what is needed and how every component relates to the broader program and act as a trusted translator between engineering design leadership and clients.
• Provide technical thought leadership and partner with engineering and architecture on what the product actually needs next not just what is on the backlog.
• Plan sequence and drive delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams (frontend backend agentic data infra) and across multiple environments and live release events.
• Run a lightweight high-signal agile cadence standups planning retros that respects engineering focus time and produces decisions not status theatre.
• Track and communicate scope dependencies risk and progress across Saatchi Moov AI Publicis NA and global Publicis stakeholders.
• Act as the primary point of coordination for technical readiness around live events (Builder Nights integration milestones client demos) driving pre-event run-throughs and post-event retros.
• Identify scope creep conflicting priorities and unowned work early and either resolve them escalate them or absorb the coordination cost so engineering can keep shipping.
• Maintain just-enough living documentation (system overviews decision logs release notes) so the teams mental model can survive a hire a departure or a vacation.
• Represent the technical reality of the program in client and leadership conversations translating engineering trade-offs into language that lands.

• Demonstrated track record running complex technical programs end-to-end software platforms AI/ML products large web implementations complex digital productions or equivalent. Years are flexible; depth and judgement are not.
• Good technical fluency: you can sit in an architecture conversation about microservices APIs cloud infrastructure or LLM/agent systems and add real value not just take notes.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional delivery across engineering design QA data infra and external vendors or partners.
• Comfortable working in agile hybrid-agile or producer-led delivery models and choosing the right cadence for the moment.
• Strong stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences clients executives engineers designers holding-company partners.
• Hands-on with modern collaboration and PM tooling (Jira Confluence Loop / Notion Miro / FigJam GitHub Slack / Teams).
• Working understanding of modern cloud-native platforms CI/CD and AI/LLM-enabled products enough to ask the right questions and challenge soft answers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication including the ability to summarize a chaotic situation into a clear next-action paragraph.
• Located in or willing to work Toronto hours; hybrid presence expected for client and team moments.

Required Soft Skills

• Producer instincts you treat shipping as the goal you protect the team from churn and you measure success by what got delivered.
• Pattern-recognition under noise you can hold a complex live picture in your head and notice when something is drifting before it breaks.
• Calm under pressure live events infrastructure surprises and stakeholder escalations dont rattle your communication.
• Translators ear you can paraphrase engineering accurately to a client and paraphrase client intent accurately to engineering without losing fidelity.
• Bias to action you would rather make a reversible call now than hold a meeting to ratify the obvious one.
• Comfortable with chaos and ambiguity but committed to leaving the program more legible than you found it.
• Generous with credit direct with concerns professional in conflict.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in a Publicis Groupe or other major holding-company agency environment (cultural shorthand transfers fast).
• Background as a VFX producer game producer technical product owner or hands-on technical solutions consultant.
• Experience producing or coordinating live demo / launch events with real users on a non-rehearsable schedule.
• Exposure to AI/LLM-enabled product delivery (agents RAG evaluation loops prompt iteration cycles).
• PMI-ACP CSM or comparable agile certification (signal not a gate).
• Familiarity with GCP / GKE contract-first integration models or multi-tenant SaaS delivery patterns.

Location & Eligibility: Candidates must be based in Canada with valid Canadian work authorization of at least 12 months.

Hybrid Work: This role is remote. If you are GTA-based the team meets once a month at our Toronto office (111 Queen St. E Suite 200 Toronto ON M5C 1S2) with possible occasional travel to meet stakeholders (Montreal NY London).

Time Off:

- Up to 3 weeks vacation with additional paid closure between Christmas and New Years

- Extended long weekends for provincial holidays we give you both the Monday and Friday so you get a full 4-day break

- 10 personal days per year

Flexibility & Global Mobility: After completing one year work remotely for up to 6 weeks per year from any of our 50 global offices through our Work Your World program.

Benefits: Comprehensive group coverage including:

- Medical dental and vision care

- Psychological and paramedical services

- Disability insurance

Parental Leave Top up: A 100% salary top up program once approved for Employment Insurance for the first 6 weeks of your parental Leave.

Gym Membership: Corporate Membership rates at Good Life Fitness

Free access to a financial planner & more

Compensation: The salary range for this position is $70000$100000 per year based on experience skills and relevant certifications. We believe in pay transparency and are committed to offering competitive market-aligned compensation.

We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process such as reviewing applications or analyzing resumes. These tools assist our recruitment team but never replace human decision-making. We believe in a human-first approach where your experience and potential are recognized by people.

Saatchi & Saatchi is committed to building a diverse workforce representative of our community. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates without regard to race colour citizenship religion sex marital / family status sexual orientation gender identity aboriginal status age disability or persons who may require an accommodation to apply. If you require a specific accommodation please contact Human Resources at or by email at