Senior AI Project Manager

Role Purpose

Plan, lead, and control AI projects across the full Project Management Lifecycle while ensuring alignment with organizational PMO governance, contractual commitments, and CPMAI™ analytics lifecycle phases to achieve measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Initiation & Alignment

• Develop and maintain the Project Charter, ensuring alignment with business objectives, success criteria, and value realization goals.
• Identify and engage key stakeholders; define stakeholder expectations and communication needs.

Planning

• Establish and baseline the Integrated Project Management Plan, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, risk, communication, and procurement components.
• Define Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), milestones, delivery dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Plan resource allocation in coordination with technical leads and functional managers.
• Ensure alignment between delivery plans, payment milestones, and contractual terms.

Execution

• Direct and manage project work in accordance with the approved project plan and governance framework.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (AI, data, platform, infrastructure) to support CPMAI™ phases such as business understanding, data understanding, modeling, deployment, and monitoring.
• Serve as the primary point of integration between PMO, technical teams, vendors, and clients.

Monitoring & Controlling

• Monitor project performance against baselined scope, schedule, and cost using defined KPIs.
• Identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID) proactively.
• Control scope through formal Change Control processes and assess impact on time, cost, and value.
• Produce accurate and timely project status reports and forecasts for stakeholders.

Closure & Value Realization

• Ensure formal project closure, including deliverable acceptance, documentation handover, and lessons learned.
• Support value realization tracking and post-delivery performance monitoring where applicable.
• Ensure all contractual and governance artifacts (e.g., CoCs, invoices, approvals) are completed and archived.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in technology project management, including delivery of complex, data-driven or AI-enabled solutions.
• Saudi nationality is mandatory.
• PMP®, PRINCE2®, or equivalent PMI-aligned certification is required.
• PMI-CPMAI™ certification is a strong advantage, with demonstrated understanding of analytics and AI project lifecycles.
• Strong capability in stakeholder engagement, governance enforcement, and cross-functional coordination.
• Proven ability to manage projects in high-visibility, regulated, or enterprise environments.