Senior AI Implementation Program Manager
Bridgewater, New Jersey
Contract | USD 100.00 - 114.28 HOUR

Be Part Of A Dynamic Team

Join an enterprise technology organization making a significant investment in AI agents and intelligent automation across business applications. The team is expanding an internal AI ecosystem and rolling out practical agent-based capabilities that support multiple functions across a highly regulated life-sciences environment.

This role will work closely with enterprise application leaders, business stakeholders, technical teams, and an experienced AI implementation partner to move defined AI-agent use cases from development through deployment and operational adoption. The environment combines fast, iterative delivery with the governance, validation, security, and quality expectations of a regulated organization.

What's In Store For You

  • Primarily remote opportunity with onsite collaboration in Bridgewater, New Jersey approximately 2–3 times per month

  • Initial contract expected to run for approximately six months, with potential for extension based on performance and continued AI-agent roadmap

  • Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099)

  • Initial ownership of two AI-agent implementations, with scope expected to expand to approximately four concurrent agents

  • High visibility with Enterprise Applications leadership, PMO partners, technical stakeholders, and external implementation teams

  • Opportunity to help shape a repeatable delivery model for future enterprise AI-agent initiatives

  • Exposure to AI delivery within a highly regulated pharmaceutical / life-sciences environment

How You Will Make An Impact

  • Drive delivery of multiple AI-agent initiatives from defined requirements through development, testing, implementation, deployment, hypercare, and transition to support.

  • Initially manage two concurrent AI-agent implementations, with scope expected to grow to approximately four as the roadmap expands.

  • Lead delivery using Agile methods, including daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and iterative feedback cycles.

  • Maintain clear delivery plans, milestones, sprint goals, dependencies, resources, risks, issues, decisions, actions, and accountable owners.

  • Partner with internal Enterprise Applications teams and external AI implementation partners to maintain delivery momentum and accountability.

  • Coordinate work across architecture, integrations, data, cloud/infrastructure, cybersecurity, privacy, AI governance, quality, and business stakeholders.

  • Ensure regulated delivery requirements, governance checkpoints, testing, documentation, approvals, and production controls are incorporated into project execution.

  • Identify blockers, technical dependencies, resource constraints, and delivery risks early and drive them toward timely resolution.

  • Translate defined business outcomes into actionable delivery plans, backlogs, user stories, technical tasks, and measurable success criteria.

  • Hold internal teams and external vendors accountable for sprint commitments, deliverables, timelines, and agreed decisions.

  • Support SIT, UAT, defect management, production readiness, cutover, deployment, hypercare, and transition-to-support activities.

  • Provide concise, action-oriented updates to leadership, PMO stakeholders, technical teams, and business sponsors.

  • Step into delivery gaps when needed rather than operating within a narrowly defined project-management role.

  • Help continuously improve the operating model used to deliver future AI-agent initiatives.


Requirements

Are You an Experienced AI Delivery Professional Ready to Make an Impact?

  • 7+ years of IT project management, program management, or technology-delivery experience in complex enterprise environments.

  • Demonstrated experience delivering AI, Generative AI, AI-agent, intelligent automation, or similar emerging-technology initiatives.

  • Strong preference for candidates who have personally managed AI-agent development or rollout initiatives.

  • Direct experience delivering technology programs within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or another GxP-regulated environment is strongly preferred.

  • Experience working within regulated delivery models involving validation, quality controls, governance, change management, auditability, compliance, or formal release processes.

  • Strong Agile/Scrum delivery experience, including hands-on facilitation of daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews/demos, retrospectives, and iterative release cycles.

  • Experience managing multiple concurrent technology initiatives with overlapping resources, dependencies, vendors, and stakeholders.

  • Sufficient technical fluency to work effectively with architects, engineers, developers, data teams, security teams, and implementation partners.

  • Working knowledge of AI-agent delivery concepts, APIs, integrations, enterprise data, identity/access, security, testing, monitoring, and production support.

  • Strong experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, actions, and delivery accountability.

  • Experience coordinating external vendors, implementation partners, SOW commitments, milestones, deliverables, and escalations.

  • Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.

  • Ability to operate independently after onboarding and organizational orientation.

  • Willingness to step beyond traditional PM responsibilities when delivery gaps need to be addressed.

  • PMP certification strongly preferred.

  • PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, or similar Agile certification is a plus.

  • Ability to travel onsite to Bridgewater, New Jersey approximately 2–3 times per month.