Senior Technical Project Manager (AI/IT)

Summary

Curana Health is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager (AI/IT) to lead complex enterprise technology and AI-enabled initiatives that support critical business priorities across the organization. This strategic role is responsible for driving the successful delivery of high-impact programs spanning data, applications, integrations, security, and emerging AI technologies while partnering closely with leaders across both business and technology functions.

About the Role

The Senior Technical Project Manager (AI/IT) will oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of complex technology initiatives, with a strong emphasis on AI-enabled solutions within a regulated healthcare environment. This role is accountable for end-to-end program execution, ensuring projects align with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards, and regulatory requirements, including HIPAA and PHI compliance.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of complex technology programs across data, applications, integrations, security, and AI-enabled solutions, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and aligned to business objectives.
• Define and manage project plans, schedules, resource allocations, budgets, risks, dependencies, and key milestones across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Cook up cross-functional teams and proactively manage interdependencies across engineering, data, product, security, architecture, and business functions.
• Facilitate project intake, prioritization, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure activities throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and support executive decision-making through clear communication, status reporting, and risk management.
• Establish and monitor program success metrics, business outcomes, adoption, and return on investment.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate delivery risks related to data quality, system integrations, security, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness.
• Ensure adherence to privacy, security, governance, and healthcare regulatory requirements, including HIPAA and PHI standards.
• Facilitate solution reviews, trade-off discussions, and go/no-go decisions to support successful deployments and releases.
• Maintain project and governance documentation, including requirements, testing, validation, support, and implementation materials.
• Support the continued development and evolution of project governance frameworks, AI delivery standards, and best practices that promote consistency, compliance, and scalability across the organization.
• Align project priorities, resource planning, and delivery activities with organizational strategy while supporting disciplined execution and proactive risk and issue management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience leading AI/ML, advanced analytics, digital transformation, or complex enterprise technology initiatives with demonstrated involvement in AI-enabled solutions and technologies.
• Healthcare industry experience or healthcare domain knowledge.
• Experience delivering technology initiatives within regulated healthcare environments, including a strong understanding of HIPAA and PHI compliance requirements.
• Experience partnering with technical teams to support the delivery, implementation, or operationalization of AI/ML solutions, including an understanding of the AI lifecycle from development and validation through deployment and monitoring.
• Proven experience leading initiatives involving: Authentication and identity management solutions (SSO, IAM), Data models and data architecture, API-driven integrations and services, AI-enabled and data-driven business solutions.
• Proven success leading cross-functional initiatives involving data, applications, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience managing security, compliance, and data governance considerations within AI and digital initiatives.
• Proven ability to lead multiple concurrent, high-impact initiatives with complex interdependencies and competing priorities.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical and AI concepts into clear business value.
• Demonstrated expertise in stakeholder management and alignment across business and technology organizations.
• Deep understanding of project and program management methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches.
• Strong understanding of architecture principles, system integrations, data models, APIs, and identity/authentication concepts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and similar platforms.

If not currently certified, the ability to obtain a recognized project management certification within one year of hire is required.