Sr Healthcare AI Project Manager

Location: Hybrid - Atlanta, GA
Job Type: Independent Contract (Contractor / Non-Employee)
Start Date: October 19th
Contract Length: 5 months

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the enterprise-wide Artificial Intelligence Transformation Strategy discovery phase. This role operationalizes cross-functional coordination between clinical, administrative, and financial executives and advanced data science engineering teams. The core mandate is to drive structured workshops, manage project scope, and deliver an actionable, multi-year AI investment roadmap synthesizing unstructured institutional pain points.

Responsibilities

Scope of Work: Governance & Execution

• Establish Strategy Governance: Architect master plan, timeline, and track milestone delivery for 100+ executive discovery sessions.
• Manage RAID Logs: Track, mitigate, and resolve administrative, clinical, and operational risks, issues, and project dependencies.
• Resource Integration: Monitor active deployment tracking for financial capital, human resources, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
• Benchmark Coordination: Secure and integrate high-viability AI use cases from peer Academic Medical Centers into the final roadmap.
• Downstream Pipeline Planning: Organize and align workflow owners, process leads, and data SMEs for future deployment phases.
• Change Readiness Tracking: Document organizational adoption readiness, executive champions, cultural friction, and speed factors.

Functional Focus Verticals

Maintain blended methodology timeline oversight across discovery streams covering:

• Clinical Operations
• Nursing Workflow
• Human Resources
• Finance Modeling
• Revenue Cycle
• Supply Chain
• Contact Centers
• Patient Access
• Digital Services
• Shared Services
• Admin & Legal

Framework Execution Tiers

• Tier 1: AI Quick Wins – Track and deploy immediate tactical initiatives leveraging existing personnel, data, and minimal capital.
• Tier 2: Deep Discovery – Drive planning for high-ROI use cases requiring technical architecture and complex business modeling.
• Tier 3: Capital Pipeline – Coordinate enterprise-transformative projects slated for formal submission into Capital Planning.

Requirements

Required Qualifications & Operational Requirements

• Healthcare PM Expertise: 10+ years of progressive IT PM experience, driving discovery or strategy in a matrixed health system.
• AI/ML Delivery Literacy: Understanding of data science lifecycles, structured/unstructured ingestion, NLP, LLMs, and clinical safety bounds.
• Blended Project Delivery: Mastery navigating both Agile/Scrum structures and traditional structured framework controls.
• Executive-Level Governance: Proven capacity aligning C-Suite executives, clinical chiefs, and directors around strict deliverables.
• On-Site Presence: Must execute face-to-face workshop facilitation inside Atlanta area client facilities as operationally required.
• Tools: Advanced proficiency in Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, MS Project, and visualization mapping tools (Visio, Lucidchart, Miro).

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive IT PM experience, driving discovery or strategy in an Academic Medical Center.
• PMP Certification

Pay

USD $100.00 - USD $170.00 per hour (1099/C2C)