Technical Project Manager, Specialist (AIML)

The Technical Program Manager for Enterprise AI & Research plays a critical role in enabling strategic clarity execution rigor and operational excellence across the EAIR portfolio. This role acts as a force multiplier for EAIR leadership by developing a deep understanding of enterprise AI products synthesizing crossfunctional inputs and ensuring leadership has the structure insights and context needed to make informed decisions. As a proactive and strategic operator with strong product intuition you will help translate leadership vision into executable plans connect research progress to product strategy and keep teams aligned on priorities and outcomes. You will operate with influence rather than authority navigating ambiguity facilitating alignment and balancing longterm research investments with nearterm product and platform needs. This role blends AI program management product strategy support and executive enablement. While it does not own final strategic or investment decisions it is accountable for ensuring decisions are wellframed databacked clearly communicated and effectively executed across Enterprise AI & Research.

Core Responsibilities

• Facilitate operational and strategic planning for the Enterprise AI & Research (EAIR) portfolio including OKRs KPIs and outcomebased success metrics aligned to enterprise strategy.

• Partner with EAIR product and business leaders to gather inputs align priorities and articulate proposed goals that reflect market needs and leadership direction.

• Track and report progress against EAIR program goals clearly highlighting milestones achieved dependencies resolved and outcomes enabled through leadership alignment.

• Ensure endtoend traceability from EAIR strategy to execution outcomes and value realization to support leadership assessment and course correction.

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of Enterprise AI products platforms and research initiatives to inform leadership discussions and strategic framing.

• Synthesize crossfunctional inputs to support leadership evaluation of build vs. buy decisions product positioning and market placement of AI capabilities.

• Frame AI initiatives in terms of customer value business impact and enterprise scalability to enable informed decisionmaking by EAIR and CDAO leadership.

• Track budgets staffing plans and capacity allocation across the EAIR portfolio partnering with Finance HR and Technology to surface constraints and tradeoffs.

• Own the operational cadence of the EAIR organization including leadership meetings and ceremonies ensuring disciplined execution aligned with leadershipapproved priorities.

• Serve as the program lead supporting EAIR leadership by enabling effective communication change management and crossenterprise initiatives while ensuring strategic ownership remains with leadership.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 58 years of experience in technical project or program management including enterprisescale or multiworkstream initiatives. Bachelors / Masters degree in Computer science or related fields.

• Strong experience supporting senior leadership through program planning execution tracking and executivelevel reporting.

• Demonstrated ability to operate with influence rather than authority synthesizing inputs and enabling leadership decisionmaking.

• Good to have skills in project planning scheduling risk and issue management stakeholder communication vendor coordination and cross-functional collaboration. Technical proficiency with project management tools (e.g. JIRA MS Project) and familiarity with SDLC Agile and Waterfall methodologies is essential. Experience working with AI data or advanced technology programs preferred; familiarity with enterprise delivery models (Agile Waterfall or hybrid) strongly desired.

• Strong communication problem-solving organizational and time management skills.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

About Vanguard

At Vanguard we dont just have a missionwere on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning collaboration and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.