5+ years of IT project/program management experience with a focus on data, analytics, automation, or AI initiatives.
Proven ability to convert business requirements into actionable project plans and milestones.
Experience collaborating across diverse teams, including IT, business, cybersecurity, and vendors.
Expertise in managing project scope, budgets, timelines, and risk while communicating effectively with executives.
Familiarity with agile methodologies and tools like Jira for project tracking and management.
Understanding of AI, machine learning, and data-driven initiatives is essential.
Experience with AI tools such as OpenAI or similar platforms is a plus.
Responsibilities
Lead the planning and execution of AI-related projects to ensure successful delivery.
Define and clarify business problems and gather requirements for AI solutions.
Develop comprehensive use cases to drive AI solution implementation.
Manage risks, governance, and stakeholder communication for AI initiatives.
Ensure project outcomes align with business objectives and deliver measurable impact.
Coordinate activities between internal teams and external vendors to maintain project momentum.
Implement structures to increase accountability and delivery discipline for AI programs.
Benefits
Highly visible role in AI, automation, and enterprise technology initiatives.
Opportunity to influence AI solution strategy and governance across the organization.
Extensive exposure to executive stakeholders and enterprise transformation efforts.
Chance to contribute to meaningful project outcomes beyond simple reporting.
Support in shaping the adoption and success of emerging AI and data programs.
Full Job Description
LOCATION
Fort Mill, SC based opportunity with onsite collaboration expected.
WHAT THEY OFFER YOU
Opportunity to step into a highly visible role supporting AI, automation, data, and enterprise technology initiatives.
Ability to help shape how AI solutions are planned, governed, deployed, adopted, and measured across the business.
Exposure to executive stakeholders, technical leaders, business teams, and enterprise-wide transformation efforts.
A chance to bring structure, accountability, and delivery discipline to emerging AI and data-driven programs.
Opportunity to own meaningful project outcomes, not just status reporting or task tracking.
WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT
The organization is actively advancing AI-enabled initiatives and needs a strong functional PM to drive structure, execution, and adoption.
This person will lead planning, delivery, governance, risk management, stakeholder communication, and value realization across AI-related programs.
The role will help define business problems, gather requirements, develop use cases, and ensure AI solutions produce measurable business impact.
This person will coordinate across internal technology teams, data teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors to keep initiatives moving.
Success in this role requires someone who has built, implemented, deployed, or rolled out meaningful solutions for a business, not just managed technical tasks.
THE BACKGROUND THAT FITS
5+ years of IT project or program management experience, ideally supporting data, analytics, automation, AI, or enterprise technology initiatives.
Strong functional Project Manager background with the ability to translate business needs into project plans, delivery roadmaps, and execution milestones.
Experience working across business, IT, data, engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and vendor teams.
Experience with agile or hybrid delivery environments, including Jira or similar tools for backlog management, sprint reporting, dependencies, and project visibility.
Working knowledge of AI, machine learning, generative AI, automation, analytics, or data-driven initiatives is highly valuable.
Prior exposure to AI tools or LLMs such as Copilot, Claude, OpenAI, or similar platforms would be a strong plus.
