Apply now: AI Program & Project Manager, Remote. Start date is ASAP for this 6-12 month contract position.

Job Title:

AI Program & Project Manager Location-Type:

Remote (travel up to 50% required, including potential international; primary travel hub is Wilmington, DE)

Start Date:

ASAP Duration:

12 month contract

Compensation Range:

$90-$125/hr W2

Benefits:

Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, and 401

K Visa Sponsorship:

Not eligible for visa sponsorship The client is seeking an execution-focused AI Program & Project Manager to lead a portfolio of AI-enabled productivity and process transformation initiatives from definition through pilot, adoption, and benefits tracking in a complex enterprise environment. Job Summary

• Manage multiple concurrent AI-enabled productivity initiatives, maintaining integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and critical paths.
• Establish and maintain program governance, working-team cadences, decision forums, and escalation paths across business, IT, data, security, and change-management stakeholders.
• Translate business use cases and productivity opportunities into structured scopes, workplans, deliverables, and measurable success criteria.
• Serve as the Smartsheet power user for the portfolio, building and maintaining workplans, RAID logs, executive dashboards, and steering materials.
• Facilitate project kickoffs, stage-gate reviews, and steering committee sessions; document decisions and drive timely closure of actions.
• Partner with business and change leads to support stakeholder analysis, communications, training, readiness, and adoption plans.
• Track implementation outcomes, adoption indicators, lessons learned, and benefits realization with business owners.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5 years of project or program management experience in complex, cross-functional enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI, automation, data and analytics, digital transformation, or enterprise technology initiatives.
• Active PMP certification.
• Advanced Smartsheet capability, including workplans, dashboards, reports, dependencies, and portfolio-level tracking.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, written reporting, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365, including PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience delivering generative AI, AI agents, machine learning, intelligent automation, or decision-support solutions at enterprise scale.
• Real-world experience scaling agentic solutions in enterprise environments, including process redesign and change management.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform, Palantir, Databricks, OpenAI technologies, or similar enterprise AI and data platforms.
• Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, chemicals, industrial operations, or related domains.
• PgMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, Prosci, or Lean Six Sigma credentials.
• Experience with benefits realization tracking, UAT coordination, and operational handoff in productivity or transformation programs.