Senior Project Manager, Data & AI

American Electric Power•Columbus, OH
•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager, Data & AI establishes and runs status reporting across programs, including weekly status reports, executive dashboards, and steering committee materials. These reports consolidate milestones, financials, risks, and issues from each workstream into a consistent view that supports decision-making. The role manages demand intake by triaging, scoping, and sizing requests; developing business cases; and setting priorities with leadership. It ensures approved work aligns with strategic priorities, available capacity, and budget. The position also directs PMO activities, including resource tracking, change control, and the standards, templates, and tools that support consistent delivery. Contractor onboarding is overseen through coordination of statements of work, purchase orders, and system access. The position manages or assists with base, intermediate, and complex projects, with progressive development toward managing intermediate projects in a matrix team environment. It provides leadership, direction, coordination, and communication throughout project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closure, using a safe, efficient, economical, and risk-balanced approach to achieve goals and customer satisfaction. The role provides project transparency, builds relationships, and communicates effectively with stakeholders, while enabling team-level continuous improvement to increase quality and optimize delivery of value.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in project management, computer science, or a related technical field.
  • Five years of relevant work experience; an equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and run program status reporting, including weekly status reports, executive dashboards, and steering committee materials.
  • Consolidate workstream milestones, financials, risks, and issues into a consistent view to support decisions.
  • Manage demand intake by triaging, scoping, and sizing requests; developing business cases; and setting priorities with leadership.
  • Ensure approved work fits strategic priorities, available capacity, and budget.
  • Direct PMO activities, including resource tracking, change control, and delivery standards, templates, and tools.
  • Oversee contractor onboarding by coordinating statements of work, purchase orders, and system access.
  • Manage or assist in managing base, intermediate, and complex projects, progressively developing toward management of intermediate projects in a matrix team environment.
  • Lead and coordinate project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closure.
  • Communicate and provide project transparency to internal and external customers, team members, suppliers, contractors, vendors, and industry peers.
  • Enable and promote team-level continuous improvement activities that increase quality and optimize delivery of value.
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