AI Technical Project Manager

About the role

We are seeking an experienced AI Technical Project Manager to lead AI projects within our agentic workflow initiatives. This role involves managing the AI delivery lifecycle, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring that AI initiatives meet business, technical, security, and operational readiness requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end AI delivery lifecycle activities including discovery, experimentation, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization of AI-powered SaaS capabilities.
• Cook up dependencies across AI engineering, backend engineering, product, QA, data, and platform teams.
• Ensure AI initiatives meet business, technical, security, and operational readiness requirements prior to release.
• Drive delivery accountability across cross-functional teams ensuring AI initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business objectives.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to prioritize initiatives, manage competing demands, and balance innovation with operational stability.
• Operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-evolving AI environments where requirements, model capabilities, and delivery priorities may shift rapidly.
• Help teams balance experimentation velocity with enterprise-grade reliability and governance expectations.
• Configure and optimize Jira workflows, dashboards, automation, and reporting mechanisms to support scalable AI product delivery.
• Leverage Atlassian Intelligence and workflow automation to improve execution transparency and operational efficiency.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to ensure AI initiatives align with organizational governance, security, compliance, and risk management standards.
• Act as the primary liaison between cross-functional teams, including software developers, designers, engineers, and quality assurance testers, to ensure project success.
• Communicate project status updates, issues, and risks to stakeholders, including project sponsors, team members, and executive leadership.
• Foster a collaborative and supportive team environment, promoting open communication, teamwork, and knowledge sharing.
• Conduct regular project meetings to track progress, resolve issues, and adjust project plans as needed.

Requirements

• 3-5 years TPM experience
• 2+ years supporting AI/ML or Generative AI product delivery
• Experience coordinating cross-functional AI initiatives in production SaaS environments
• Jira Expertise: Strong proficiency in JIRA, including JQL, building dashboards, and customizing workflows for Agile teams.
• AI/LLM Understanding: Understanding of the LLM ecosystem, agent frameworks, and the difference between Generative and Agentic AI.
• Technical Competencies: Working understanding of LLM application architectures, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agent orchestration frameworks, vector databases, prompt engineering workflows, and API-driven AI services.
• Familiarity with cloud-native SaaS environments and AI infrastructure concepts such as inference services, model evaluation pipelines, observability, and CI/CD workflows.
• Ability to communicate effectively with AI engineers regarding system dependencies, experimentation tradeoffs, and deployment considerations.
• Technical Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience supporting LLM-based applications, copilots, agentic systems, or AI automation products
• Familiarity with AI evaluation frameworks and experimentation methodologies
• Experience working with distributed engineering teams in rapid-release SaaS environments
• Comfortable operating in iterative AI development environments where experimentation, rapid feedback loops, and evolving model behavior are core aspects of delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Skills

• Project Management
• Agile Methodologies
• AI/ML/Generative AI
• Jira
• Cloud-Native SaaS Environments
• Collaboration and Communication

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the Base Salary for this role is $125,000 - $160,000 per year.

Schedule

Remote (must work EST)