AI Implementation Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Own delivery planning, scheduling, and risk management across AI implementation workstreams
• Drive sprint and release planning in collaboration with engineering leads and architects
• Maintain delivery accountability across multiple parallel tracks including requirements, build, integration, UAT
• Identify and escalate delivery blockers; proactively manage scope, timeline, and resource constraints
• Produce and maintain project artifacts: charters, schedules, status reports, and decision logs
• Serve as primary client-facing lead; manage senior stakeholder relationships at state agency director level and above
• Facilitate executive-level status briefings, steering committee updates, and milestone reviews
• Translate client program and policy context into delivery priorities and acceptance criteria
• Navigate client organizational dynamics typical of state government IT modernization engagements
• Ai Program Oversight
• Lead implementation of AI-enabled workflows, agentic pipelines, and decision-support systems in HHS contexts
• Cookordination across engineering, solution architects, and QA teams to ensure delivery against technical and functional requirements
• Manage implementation of AI evaluation, validation, and human-in-the-loop processes as defined by program requirements
• Maintain awareness of AI governance, compliance, and explainability requirements relevant to government deployments (FedRAMP, CMS, state data use agreements)
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Partner with business analysts to ensure requirements are scoped, traceable, and acceptance-ready
• Coordinate with subcontractors, vendors, and state agency IT counterparts
• Support proposal and business development activities including staffing plans, delivery approach narratives, and past performance documentation

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of project management experience in technology implementation, with at least 3 years in a client-facing, billable consulting context
• Demonstrated delivery of complex, multi-workstream technology programs from inception through go-live
• Public sector or government consulting experience — state, local, or federal HHS preferred
• PMP certification required (active); Agile certifications (SAFe, CSM) a plus
• Working knowledge of AI systems in production contexts: model behavior, agentic workflows, integration patterns, evaluation
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to translate technical progress into executive-level narratives
• Experience managing delivery across matrixed teams including engineers, architects, QA, and subject matter experts
• Proficiency with project management tooling (Jira, ADO, Smartsheet, or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI, ML, or data platform programs in government (SNAP, Medicaid, MMIS, or IES modernization a strong plus)
• Familiarity with federal compliance environments: FedRAMP, CMS ARC-AMPE, or equivalent
• Background in HHS program policy, eligibility systems, or public benefits administration
• Experience with cloud delivery on AWS GovCloud or Azure Government
• Track record in RFP/RFI pursuit support: delivery approach sections, staffing models, work plans
• Comfort managing client environments with significant political, regulatory, or oversight sensitivity