AI Portfolio / PMO Lead

Harman Becker Automotive Systems Manufacturing Kft • Novi, MI

1d • $108,750 - $159,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

The AI Portfolio Lead is a senior individual contributor responsible for driving operational excellence, portfolio governance, and execution cadence across a divisional AI portfolio. The role owns the management rhythms that keep AI initiatives aligned, transparent, and moving from demand intake through adoption and value realization, including portfolio dashboards, governance forums, decision logs, action tracking, duplicate-project reviews, risk and dependency tracking, and leadership-ready reporting. This role requires strong program management, analytical, stakeholder management, and communication skills to provide leaders with clear visibility into portfolio health, priorities, decisions, outcomes, and risks while partnering across business, product, technology, finance, change, delivery, and governance teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with 6+ years of experience in PMO, program management, portfolio governance, business operations, or transformation.
• Experience establishing operating cadence, governance forums, leadership reviews, planning cycles, performance routines, or portfolio management rhythms.
• Strong background in stakeholder management, prioritization, issue tracking, dependency management, action tracking, decision logs, and leadership-ready reporting.
• Proven ability to create executive dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, portfolio analytics, and data-driven insights that support strategic decision making.
• Experience preparing senior-leadership materials and synthesizing complex portfolio information into concise, actionable recommendations.
• Experience supporting change management, adoption planning, communications, training reinforcement, or role-based enablement.
• Working knowledge of benefit tracking, KPI design, baseline validation, assumptions, realized impact, and controllership review.
• Exposure to Digital, AI, technology, enterprise transformation, governance, risk, compliance, documentation, controls, or responsible AI operating processes.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguity, create structure, influence cross-functional teams, and drive follow-through without direct authority.

Nice To Haves

• The ideal candidate is a structured, business-oriented operator who can bring order, transparency, and momentum to a fast-moving AI portfolio without adding unnecessary bureaucracy. They combine PMO rigor, executive communication, analytical judgment, change-management discipline, financial fluency, and practical responsible-AI awareness to help the business adopt AI in ways that are measurable, sustainable, and well controlled.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the divisional AI portfolio operating cadence, including intake reviews, governance forums, leadership reviews, planning cycles, and performance review rhythms.
• Manage the divisional AI backlog, including demand intake, prioritization support, cohort planning, readiness tracking, and alignment to business priorities.
• Own risk, issue, action, decision, and dependency tracking, including decision logs, action registers, milestone visibility, and follow-through routines so commitments and escalations are visible and addressed.
• Lead duplicate-project reviews and portfolio rationalization efforts to identify overlap, improve resource utilization, and align AI investments to the highest-value opportunities.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and portfolio analytics that provide clear visibility into initiative health, performance, risks, decisions, and outcomes.
• Prepare leadership-ready portfolio materials that synthesize complex information into concise insights, decision points, and recommended actions.
• Drive reporting consistency, data quality, and governance standards across the divisional AI portfolio.
• Maintain project hygiene and portfolio transparency across intake, prioritization, delivery, adoption, and value-realization stages.
• Own business-specific adoption planning, including impacted roles, stakeholder engagement, enablement needs, communications, and reinforcement approach.
• Coordinate training reinforcement, leadership talking points, adoption communications, and feedback loops after launch.
• Identify adoption risks, resistance patterns, readiness gaps, and operational blockers; recommend practical actions to improve uptake and sustainability.
• Facilitate alignment across business, product, technology, finance, delivery, and operational teams to resolve conflicts and optimize portfolio outcomes.
• Partner with business finance and controllership stakeholders to validate baselines, benefit formulas, assumptions, and realized impact.
• Support KPI design, including direct and indirect benefit definitions, operational metrics, expected value, and value tracking cadence.
• Track expected versus realized value and surface variance drivers when benefits are unclear, delayed, or at risk.
• Connect portfolio prioritization and rationalization decisions to business value, resource utilization, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure AI Hub intake submissions are complete, clear, and ready for governance review.
• Support risk-tier pre-checks, documentation quality, human oversight planning, controls alignment, and reassessment trigger tracking.
• Help business stakeholders understand responsible AI governance requirements and complete them efficiently without slowing responsible innovation.
• Continuously improve portfolio management processes, tools, reporting frameworks, and governance practices.

Benefits

• Access to employee discounts on world-class products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, and more)
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
• Competitive wellness benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior