AI Project Director

JOB DESCRIPTION: Project Manager – AI

Enterprise Technology & Digital Transformation Lifecycle

1. Role Overview

Position Title:

Project Manager – Artificial Intelligence (AI-PM)

Department:

Technology / Digital Transformation

Experience Required:

5–9 Years (AI / Digital Transformation Projects)

Location:

On-Site

Strategic Objective

The AI-PM is a strategic, execution-focused leader driving the company's AI transformation journey. This individual bridges the gap between business leadership, technical teams, and external vendors to deploy company-wide automation, save time, reduce costs, and dramatically improve organizational output quality.

Key Success Metrics

• Processing & Time Savings: Measurable reduction in manual processing time per department and total corporate hours saved.
• Financial Impact: Positive, systematically tracked ROI achieved within defined product and project timelines.
• Adoption & Velocity: High active adoption rates of automated tools across business units and consistent quarterly AI deployments.
• Quality & Satisfaction: Improved pre- vs. post-implementation quality parameters and verified employee satisfaction indexes.

2. Core Responsibilities

AI Strategy & Roadmap Development

• High-Impact Strategy: Define and execute a phased, high-impact AI roadmap aligned with overarching business objectives across Finance, HR, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support.
• Prioritization: Assess and prioritize technical initiatives based on operational feasibility, pipeline impact, and financial ROI potential.
• Market Awareness: Monitor global technology shifts, benchmark competitor ecosystems, and deliver a quarterly 'State of AI' landscape report to the executive leadership team.

Workflow Automation & Platform Architecture

• System Integration: Design and oversee end-to-end automation workflows that integrate smoothly with existing enterprise applications (CRM, HRMS, Legacy Databases, etc.).
• Platform Mastery: Demonstrate strong hands-on mastery of modern enterprise workflow tools such as n8n, Make, Zapier, or Microsoft Power Automate.
• Governance & Compliance: Establish robust AI governance, data privacy parameters, continuous model-monitoring controls, and ethical compliance frameworks from day one.
• Build vs. Buy Analysis: Evaluate complex commercial build vs. buy solutions with structured technical and financial risk analysis.

Vibe Coding, Prototyping & Technical Translation

• Rapid Prototyping: Utilize 'vibe coding' principles using natural language inside AI development shells (Cursor, Replit AI, GitHub Copilot, v0) to accelerate prototype deployment without engineering bottlenecks.
• Discovery Engineering: Lead discovery workshops with business heads to translate practical pain points into crisp system requirements, user stories, and precise technical briefs.
• Quality Assurance Check: Evaluate early low-code/vibe-coded prototypes for production readiness before passing them to core developer lines.

ROI Analytics & Financial Case Development

• Financial Modeling: Build data-grounded financial models projecting cost optimizations, capacity release, and structural quality returns to capture leadership approval.
• KPI Dashboards: Monitor and distribute detailed monthly dashboards reporting target vs. actual ROI performance benchmarks.

Vendor, Client & Management Communication

• Vendor Optimization: Serve as the master point of contact for external AI software companies, SaaS vendors, and specialized system integrators; negotiate precise SLAs.
• Executive Advisory: Translate complex, multi-layered algorithmic and machine learning engineering terms into simplified, accessible strategic vocabulary for non-technical stakeholders.
• Culture Catalyst: Champion a data-driven, AI-first work culture through internal continuous learning series, lunch-and-learn presentations, and proactive change management strategies.

Engineering Oversight & Architecture (Added Advantage)

• Velocity Protection: Partner directly with engineering lines, data scientists, and DevOps specialists to break execution blockers and maintain delivery timeline momentum.
• Technical Foundation: Maintain a functional, operational literacy in database structures (MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL architectures) and foundational programming frameworks (Python, JavaScript, REST APIs, JSON data maps) to effectively guide core product decisions.

Team Leadership & Personnel Management

• Cross-Functional Operations: Directly coordinate, mentor, and track performance across a cross-functional Agile unit comprising developers, data analysts, system architects, UI/UX engineers, and QA assets.
• Psychological Safety: Construct a highly collaborative, innovative, and safe team environment that incentivizes experimentation, speed, and learning from failure.
• Resource Optimization: Control tactical resource allocation patterns to avoid personnel burnout while defending roadmap velocity commitments.

3. Qualifications & Competencies

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's university degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a heavily analytical engineering field.
• Professional Background: 5–9 years of structural project management experience, with a validated minimum of 3 years strictly dedicated to AI deployment, complex workflow automation, or enterprise-scale digital transformations.
• Delivery Execution: Proven, end-to-end portfolio tracking product evolution from conceptual design phase through to live enterprise rollout using Agile, Scrum, or hybrid workflow methods.
• Integration Literacy: Verifiable hands-on track record using cloud workflow orchestration engines (n8n, Make, Zapier, or Power Automate).
• Commercial Competence: Documented background creating financial case summaries, tracking cost-mitigation parameters, and proving tech investments ROI.

Preferred Capabilities / Added Advantage

• Programming Baseline: Functional literacy or script reading skill in Python, JavaScript, and advanced SQL querying mechanisms.
• ML/LLM Knowledge: Working familiarity with basic machine learning models, fine-tuning structures, vector search, and model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini).
• Prototyping Frameworks: Familiarity using advanced code assistant tools (Cursor, Replit, v0.dev, Copilot).
• Certifications: Active industry credentials (PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2) or specialized vendor certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Google, or DeepLearning.AI.

Technical Competencies

Leadership Competencies

• AI Strategy & Roadmap Design
• Executive-Level Communication
• Workflow Automation Platforms
• Team Building & Mentorship
• ROI Modeling & Financial Analysis
• Vendor & Stakeholder Management
• AI Platform Architecture
• Change Management & Empathy
• Vibe Coding & Low-Code Deployment
• Strategic Thinking
• Business Requirements Analysis
• Conflict Resolution
• Database & API Knowledge
• Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
• Data Governance & AI Ethics
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

4. Work Environment & Corporate Culture

• AI-First Mindset: We operate in an aggressive, progressive corporate landscape where internal workflow automation and AI scaling are resourced as primary, non-negotiable competitive business advantages.
• High Market Impact: This position holds deep strategic authority with real-time, measurable influence over company-wide profit sheets, employee operational capacity, and structural framework maturity.
• Innovation Incubator: Personnel are consistently encouraged, measured, and expected to proactively test, pilot, and pitch novel AI-augmented infrastructure solutions directly to executive directors.
• Rigorous Data Foundations: All operational paths and tool deployment architectures are cleanly metrics-driven. You will operate with open access to precise data analytics layers and performance dashboards to direct strategic priorities.