Job Description
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The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Akkodis is a company specializing in connecting clients with top talent across North America. They are seeking a
Senior AI Project Manager to define project scopes, lead cross-functional teams, and manage AI initiatives from ideation to deployment while ensuring alignment with business goals. Responsibilities • Define project scope, objectives, timelines, and resource allocation strategies for AI initiatives from ideation to deployment and monitoring • Assemble, lead, and coordinate cross-functional teams comprising data scientists, data engineers, ML engineers, and business analysts, fostering a collaborative environment • Act as the primary liaison, translating complex AI concepts into clear business insights and managing expectations across all stakeholders to ensure alignment and buy-in • Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, particularly those related to data quality, model bias, ethical considerations, privacy concerns, and security.
Escalates any critical risks / issues to the Project Sponsor or Steering Committee • Work closely with data teams to ensure data quality, governance, and security are maintained throughout the model development lifecycle, including training, evaluation, and deployment • Manages the project tightly to the six constraints of scope, schedule, bolthires, risk, resource and quality • Ensures consistent and diligent use of applicable project methodology, tools, templates, repositories, and portfolio/project management tools by all project team members • Ensures the timely and accurate completion of business and technical project deliverables • Creates and maintains a detailed project schedule to include tasks, durations, resources assignments, percentage complete, and start / end dates, etc • Conducts project meetings; documents and distributes meetings agendas and meeting minutes, tracks accomplishments, key milestones, decisions, risk/issues • Documents and distributes weekly project status reports to key stakeholders, project sponsors and project team members • Prepares Gate Approval Requests at each gate transition for review & approval by Project Sponsor and Steering Committee • Prepares Change Requests to record changes in scope, schedule and budget for review & approval by Project Sponsor and Steering Committee Skills • Strong acumen in business processes in multiple functional areas in an organization in the Financial Services industry • Strong familiarity with project management concepts, interactions between knowledge areas and process groups, and inputs / tools and techniques / outputs in each knowledge area that explain how to approach project management and implement solutions • Strong knowledge of tools / technology for office productivity, project management, portfolio management and communications • Mastery of project planning, scope, time, bolthires, quality, resource, communication, risk, and stakeholder management.
Able to handle complex, large-scale projects and may mentor other PMs • Understanding the AI/Machine Learning lifecycle, data pipelines, model development (training, testing, evaluation), and deployment (MLOps). Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, bolthires Cloud) and relevant tools (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Git, Jira) is valuable • Knowledge of how data is sourced, cleaned, labeled, and managed. This includes understanding data quality issues, bias in algorithms, and data privacy regulations (like GDPR) • The ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and vice versa.
This ensures AI solutions align with strategic business goals and deliver measurable value (ROI analysis) • Knowledge of responsible AI practices, potential biases, and legal guidelines to ensure solutions are fair and compliant with industry standards • Strong analytical thinking / problem solving and decision-making skills • Highly matured behavioral characteristics such as ethics, accountability, trustworthiness, organization / time management and flexibility / adaptability • Strong communication skills and interpersonal / interaction skills • Strong ability to build / lead teams, resolve conflicts and mentor / motivate team members • 7+ years of experience as a project or program manager, with hands-on exposure to AI/ML or data-driven projects, are essential for this role.
Requires low level of supervision • Proficiency in Agile, Scrum, or hybrid methodologies that allow for flexibility and continuous iteration in AI development environments • Expertise in traditional PM tools (Jira, Confluence) and leveraging AI-powered tools for automation, planning, risk assessment, and reporting • Experience in a financial service or highly-regulated environment is a plus Benefits • Medical • Dental • Vision • Term life insurance • Short-term disability insurance • Additional voluntary benefits • Commuter benefits • 401K plan • Paid Sick Leave • Holiday pay Company Overview • Akkodis provides digital engineering solutions for sustainable and innovative industries.
It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Zug, Zug, CHE, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Akkodis has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 141 in 2025, 121 in 2024, 67 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job