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AI Project Manager, Senior

Nabeh
Riyadh, KSA
Full-time
Senior · 7+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago

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Key Responsibilities

  • Lead project initiation and handover from Sales, reviewing contracts, statements of work (SOWs), purchase orders (POs), deliverables, commercial milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
  • Develop and maintain integrated project management plans, detailed schedules, milestones, forecasts, and approved project baselines, ensuring changes are documented and formally approved.
  • Manage project kickoffs, stakeholder communication, risk and issue tracking, change requests, status reporting, steering committees, and escalation processes.
  • Maintain accurate project documentation, contracts, approvals, deliverables, and correspondence, ensuring records are organized and audit-ready.
  • Coordinate the end-to-end AI delivery lifecycle, including discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, data preparation, model development or configuration, integration, deployment, user acceptance testing (UAT), go-live, and hyper care.
  • Track AI model performance requirements and success measures, including precision, recall, false positives, inference latency, operational monitoring, and retraining requirements, where applicable.
  • Monitor readiness of datasets, development environments, GPUs, edge devices, camera streams, APIs, cloud or on-premises infrastructure, cybersecurity reviews, licenses, and third-party integrations.
  • Coordinate technical validation, security and privacy approvals, client UAT, production readiness, user training, handover, and service transition, ensuring the required evidence and technical sign-offs are obtained.
  • Coordinate AI engineers, technical leads, DevOps, infrastructure, business analysts, QA, UI/UX, support, field teams, and subcontractors to align responsibilities, priorities, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
  • Monitor project progress, identify blockers and resource constraints, and coordinate recovery plans and escalations through PMO and functional leadership.
  • Coordinate site readiness, permits, logistics, safety requirements, and vendor mobilization for field and edge AI deployments.
  • Track project budgets, resource utilization, timesheets, vendor purchase orders, cost-to-complete, financial milestones, invoicing requirements, and potential margin exposure.
  • Coordinate signed acceptance documents, completion certificates (CoCs), and supporting evidence required for timely invoicing and payment.
  • Manage subcontractor deliverables, schedules, dependencies, and handovers, coordinating contractual and commercial changes with Sales, Finance, Procurement, and Legal.
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day client contact for project delivery, communicating progress, issues, corrective actions, and decisions clearly and proactively in English and Arabic as required.
  • Coordinate quality assurance activities, defect prioritization, UAT plans, issue resolution, user training, operational documentation, support service-level agreements (SLAs), and formal client acceptance.
  • Lead project closure activities, including documentation handover, lessons learned, financial reconciliation, and transition to support or managed services.
  • Prepare regular project status reports highlighting milestones, risks, budget status, delivery progress, outstanding actions, and issues requiring management attention.

Preferred Qualifications

  • PMP or an equivalent project management certification.
  • AI project management training or certification, such as CPMAI.
  • Experience in smart cities, video analytics/CCTV, edge AI, Generative AI, cloud or on-premises deployments, or government-sector programs.
  • Exposure to Saudi client environments, site and traffic-safety governance, data protection, and cybersecurity processes.
  • Experience using enterprise project and resource management systems.

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