Project Manager / Scrum Master
Position Summary:
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced AI Project Manager / Scrum Master with 7+ years of experience in project management, agile delivery, and cross-functional program coordination to join our team. This position is ideal for a candidate with strong experience leading Agile teams, managing complex technology initiatives, and collaborating with business and technical stakeholders to deliver innovative AI-driven solutions. The successful candidate will be responsible for facilitating Agile delivery processes, managing project plans and stakeholder communications, coordinating cross-functional teams, tracking risks and dependencies, supporting AI governance and security requirements, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and providing executive-level reporting to ensure successful delivery of AI, data, and digital transformation programs.
Essential Functions:
-Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement sessions.
-Support Product Owners in backlog prioritization, story readiness, dependency management, and release planning.
-Track and manage risks, issues, blockers, action items, and cross-team dependencies.
-Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team velocity, transparency, quality, and delivery predictability.
-Maintain Agile metrics, burn-down charts, sprint health indicators, and delivery dashboards.
-Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, and delivery roadmaps.
-Coordinate activities across AI research, prototyping, engineering, UX, infrastructure, security, and business teams.
-Ensure alignment between business objectives, product requirements, and technical execution.
-Manage stakeholder communications and provide regular project status updates to leadership.
-Monitor resource utilization, project timelines, scope, and delivery commitments.
-Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, UX teams, Data Scientists, and Engineering organizations to clarify requirements and ensure delivery alignment.
-Facilitate requirement gathering, decision-making sessions, and prioritization workshops.
-Coordinate cross-functional reviews and ensure traceability from business goals to delivered capabilities.
-Support user-centered design activities, including user journey mapping, usability reviews, and design validation.
-Coordinate Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Role-Level Security (RLS) requirements across AI solutions.
-Support documentation of user roles, permissions, data visibility rules, and access governance requirements.
-Ensure compliance requirements, risks, and security considerations are tracked throughout delivery.
-Create and maintain Agile artifacts, project documentation, sprint records, meeting notes, decision logs, risk registers, and knowledge repositories.
-Manage and maintain Confluence spaces, SharePoint sites, and project communication channels.
-Drive knowledge-sharing initiatives and support organizational AI adoption efforts.
Reporting & Executive Communication
-Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and executive-level reporting.
-Consolidate project schedules, milestone tracking, testing progress, delivery metrics, and operational KPIs.
-Analyze reporting gaps and collaborate with stakeholders to improve reporting accuracy and usability.
-Prepare leadership-ready presentations, dashboards, and status reports.
Minimum qualification:
Required Education & Experience:
-Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related field.
-7+ years of experience in Project Management, Program Management, Scrum Master, or Agile Delivery roles.
-3+ years supporting AI, ML, Data, Cloud, or Digital Transformation initiatives.
-Strong experience leading Agile teams using Scrum, Kanban, or Hybrid methodologies.
-Expert knowledge of Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft Office Suite, and collaboration platforms.
-Experience with project scheduling, backlog management, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
-Experience building executive-level reports and dashboards using Power BI or similar platforms.
-Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work across technical and business audiences.
Preferred qualification:
-Experience delivering Generative AI, LLM, RAG, AI Agent, or Machine Learning solutions.
-Familiarity with AI ecosystems including ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, LangChain, LangSmith, CrewAI, vector databases, and modern AI frameworks.
-Understanding of AI product lifecycles, model evaluation, prompt engineering, and experimentation processes.
-Experience supporting AI governance, security, RBAC, or data privacy initiatives.
-Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM) and/or PMP certification.
-Experience working within large enterprise environments and cross-functional global teams.