AI Project Manager

Job Title: AI Project Manager

Location: Iselin, New Jersey, 08830

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Contract Duration: 12 Months with possible extension 

$75 pay rate

Job Overview

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package!  Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today. 

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
• 5+ years of Business Execution, Project Management, PMO, Strategic Planning, Implementation, or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting large-scale cross-functional programs.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
• Proven ability to drive accountability and follow through on commitments.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of project management experience within Financial Services, Compliance, Risk, Technology, Data, Surveillance, or Regulatory organizations.
• Experience supporting complex enterprise transformation programs.
• Demonstrated expertise maintaining project plans, milestone trackers, RAID logs, action registers, dependency maps, and governance documentation.
• Strong meeting facilitation and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Experience developing executive communications, status reports, and presentation materials.
• Ability to manage deliverables independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with Compliance, Risk, Technology, Data Science, Operations, and Control partners.
• Experience supporting AI, analytics, surveillance, regulatory, data, or technology initiatives.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook.
• Experience with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Smartsheet, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Ability to influence decision making, manage competing priorities, and drive execution in a highly matrixed environment.

What You Will Be Doing

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Business Execution.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale, or longer-term Business Execution challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.
• Program Management & Execution
• Serve as the primary project management resource supporting the Head of Data and AI Program across CSG AI initiatives and associated strategic priorities.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, implementation schedules, milestone trackers, and delivery roadmaps.
• Coordinate activities across multiple workstreams to ensure alignment against strategic objectives and delivery timelines.
• Drive accountability for project commitments and follow up with stakeholders to ensure timely completion of deliverables.
• Identify execution risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies and escalate issues appropriately.
• Track and report project progress against established milestones and target dates.
• Governance & Meeting Management
• Organize and facilitate project governance routines including working groups, leadership reviews, and status meetings.
• Develop agendas and ensure meetings result in clear decisions, ownership, and next steps.
• Capture detailed and accurate meeting minutes, decisions, risks, and action items.
• Distribute meeting summaries and maintain centralized records of project activities and decisions.
• Track open actions through completion and provide regular status updates to leadership.
• RAID Management
• Establish and maintain comprehensive RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs.
• Proactively identify emerging risks and coordinate mitigation activities with stakeholders.
• Track dependency management across Business, Compliance, Technology, Operations, and Data Science teams.
• Escalate material issues and impediments that may impact delivery timelines or program objectives.
• Reporting & Executive Communications
• Prepare executive status reports, dashboards, presentations, and management updates.
• Consolidate updates from stakeholders and produce clear, concise communications regarding project health and delivery progress.
• Maintain project metrics and key performance indicators to support leadership decision making.
• Support preparation of materials for executive forums, governance committees, regulatory reviews, and stakeholder meetings.
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Coordinate activities across Compliance, Technology, Data Science, Operations,
• Regulatory, Risk, and Business teams.
• Facilitate collaboration and communication between stakeholders to drive alignment and execution.
• Maintain strong relationships across partner organizations while effectively influencing outcomes and delivery commitments.
• Support project intake, prioritization, planning, and implementation activities.
• Program Documentation & Controls
• Maintain project documentation, governance artifacts, decision logs, action registers, and project repositories.
• Ensure documentation is current, accurate, and organized for audit, regulatory, and management review purposes.
• Support maintenance of implementation plans, operating procedures, process documentation, inventories, and reporting materials.
• Coordinate documentation required for governance, risk management, and control processes.