Senior Staff AI Program Manager

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About the Role

We are seeking a visionary and execution-focused Senior Staff AI Program Manager to lead and scale our core enterprise AI platform initiatives. This role sits at the intersection of platform strategy portfolio governance technology delivery and cross-functional execution. You will own the definition orchestration and continuous evolution of our AI platform roadmap -- ensuring alignment with business goals architectural standards risk and compliance requirements emerging technology adoption and long-term scalability.

You will partner closely with senior leaders across AI Engineering Architecture Product Security Legal Risk Finance and Operations to translate enterprise strategy into actionable outcomes. You will oversee a portfolio of high-impact platform programs that enable product teams accelerate delivery and strengthen the foundation of our enterprise technology ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic AI Platform Leadership

• Guide the enterprise AI platform strategy and roadmap balancing foundational investment scalability developer enablement cost efficiency and business value.
• Lead cross-functional platform planning intake prioritization and sequencing ensuring alignment across domains and dependent teams.
• Oversee platform investment and funding governance ensuring spend aligns to strategic outcomes architectural direction and measurable value realization.
• Partner with AI Architecture and Application leadership to ensure AI platform decisions support reuse interoperability and advancing technical factors

Performance Impact & Ethical AI Governance

• Facilitate and maintain platform KPIs and success metric development such as adoption reliability resiliency developer experience time-to-market cost efficiency and operational health.
• Implement robust monitoring and reporting frameworks to track the impact health and business value of AI initiatives.
• Partner with Legal Risk and Compliance teams to integrate AI governance fairness and transparency into program delivery.

Program Execution & Delivery Excellence

• Drive execution of complex multi-team enterprise platform programs managing dependencies risks milestones and change across engineering product and operations.
• Champion agile iterative and experimental delivery methods tailored for AI/ML emphasizing rapid prototyping data-centric validation and continuous learning.
• Ensure scalability and repeatability through documentation operationalization strategies and post-deployment evaluations.

Stakeholder Alignment & Cultural Readiness

• Act as a trusted advisor to executive and senior leaders-- translating platform strategy and AI technical concepts into clear business outcomes and decision frameworks.
• Align AI platform team execution and consuming emerging AI application teams around shared priorities sequencing and expectations.
• Build organizational understanding of platform value tradeoffs and best practices enabling teams to leverage platforms effectively.

Technology Innovation & Ecosystem Integration

• Continuously evaluate pilot and integrate emerging AI technologies platforms and tools that accelerate our innovation edge.
• Establish partnerships with vendors academia and open-source communities to stay at the forefront of AI advancement.

Qualifications

Technical & Strategic Expertise

• 10 years of experience leading large-scale enterprise technology or platform portfolios.
• Demonstrated in-depth expertise in enterprise platforms including developer platforms cloud infrastructure shared services APIs data platforms and core enterprise systems.
• Ability to engage deeply with architecture and engineering leaders while maintaining a business- and outcome-oriented perspective.

Leadership & Execution

• Proven track record delivering complex high-impact initiatives in cross-functional enterprise settings.
• Exceptional program management skillsadept at managing ambiguity dependencies and risk while driving measurable outcomes.
• Strong influence and stakeholder management skillsable to align and motivate teams across tech business and compliance functions.

Agility & Innovation

• Deep experience with agile lean experimentation and iterative delivery models applied to platform and enterprise-scale initiatives ideally with AI/data-driven environments.
• Strong change agent with a passion for improving how teams build operate and scale technology with a passion for driving organizational transformation through AI.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity while driving clarity structure and measurable outcomes.

Communication & Visualization

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skillsable to articulate complex technical topics to non-technical audiences and executive stakeholders.
• Proficiency in building and presenting AI dashboards roadmaps and impact stories using tools like PowerBI Tableau or internal data visualization platforms.

Preferred Experience & Certifications

• Experience with GenAI LLMOps vector databases and AI agents with enterprise use cases and enterprise applications.
• Familiarity with enterprise AI platforms (Databricks Vertex AI AWS Bedrock Azure OpenAI etc.).
• Certifications: SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) PMI-PgMP AI Product Manager (e.g. from ) or Responsible AI certifications.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Data Science Engineering or related field required.

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

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Great Rewards:Competitive pay benefits and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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