Senior Project Manager - AI

New Balance

96d

About The Position

In this role of AI Sr Project Manager, you will be leading initiatives that drive innovation, empower cross-functional collaboration, and unlock scalable impact that contributes to the growth of our business. You will bring technical fluency, business acumen, and a solution-oriented mindset to lead AI projects across a diverse portfolio using the best fit methodology. By bridging enterprise architecture, data engineering, and business operations, you will ensure that AI solutions are not only robust and scalable, but also aligned with compliance, security, and performance standards. You will support prioritization of AI opportunities based on strategic value, feasibility, and readiness and translate complex needs into actionable plans that maximize adoption, usability, and measurable outcomes. Working in cooperation with vendor(s) and other project roles, you will manage project efforts to ensure successful delivery.

Requirements

• B.S. with 5+ years’ project management experience in a relevant technical field with at least 3 years leading AI/ML or data-driven initiatives
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts (e.g., supervised learning, model drift, bias mitigation)
• Understanding of/hands-on experience with software development life cycle
• Skilled in Agile, Scrum, or hybrid project management methodologies tailored to AI workflows
• Experience with project management tools such as Smartsheet
• Ability to work within an Agile lifecycle tool such as ADO (Microsoft DevOps) or JIRA
• Demonstrated influence without authority, self-motivated with the ability to work independently and willing to take a hands-on approach and help the team to drive success.

Responsibilities

• Managing multiple projects and teams across domains like data science, engineering, business stakeholders, etc. to ensure cohesive, timely execution
• Optimizing our AI use case intake process and helping functional and regional business leads through the intake process
• Ensuring proper training is integrated into AI project delivery
• Providing support to the teams to translate ambiguous business goals into problem statements and actionable requirements
• Liaising with the AI committee and helping drive prioritization across the AI project portfolio
• Ensuring alignment between planned project outcomes (e.g., solution selection and design) with enterprise AI roadmap and strategy
• Coordinating the overall AI project portfolio and breaking down initiatives into workstreams and/or work items taking into account critical dependencies and design decisions
• Scheduling and facilitating necessary meetings at all project stages; managing decisions and tasks; and monitoring and reporting progress
• Working with outside vendors (if applicable) and internal New Balance teams to plan and manage project activities, provide governance and oversight, provide status and other inputs to Business
• Proactively identifying and managing project risks, dependencies, and issues (and related mitigation plans); escalate in a clear and timely manner as appropriate
• Developing leadership updates outlining major milestones, status, accomplishments, critical next steps, and risks
• Providing mentoring and coaching to other project managers

Benefits

• Comprehensive traditional benefits package including three options for medical insurance, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401K
• Opportunities for online learning and development courses
• Tuition reimbursement
• $100 monthly student loan support
• Various mentorship programs
• Yearly $1,000 lifestyle reimbursement
• 4 weeks of vacation
• 12 holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible work schedule with a hybrid model
• Work from Anywhere (WFA) for four weeks per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree