Senior AI Project Manager

Summary

Join KUNGFU.AI as a Senior AI Project Manager and work with a team of Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, and AI Strategists to deliver successful projects. Oversee projects from inception to completion, ensuring high-quality, on-time, and on-budget delivery. Lead end-to-end project management, drive project governance, and partner with leads to keep clients aligned. Emphasize people management, mentoring, and collaboration across teams and stakeholders. Translate business needs into actionable product development, act as the voice of the customer, and manage the product backlog. This is a full-time, remote position offering competitive salary, stock grant, and excellent benefits.

Requirements

• Substantial experience delivering high-complexity software projects in a consulting or professional services environment, ideally involving AI, data, or emerging technologies, with deep SDLC knowledge
• Exceptional EQ - someone who can intuit team dynamics and client needs, anticipate challenges several steps ahead, and clearly translate those insights across internal and external stakeholders
• Proven track record of successfully managing senior client relationships while navigating challenging conversations and ambiguous objectives
• Someone who has experience managing multiple concurrent projects or programs (typically 2-3 depending on complexity/size) from ideation and initiation through final delivery and client acceptance
• Comfort navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and experimental or proof-of-concept work
• Clear and adaptable written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Someone with experience with agile and traditional delivery methodologies and who enjoys spanning across them
• A systems thinker who enjoys refining and evolving delivery processes to improve quality, scalability, and collaboration
• A collaborative and empathetic leader who invests in the success of their team and fosters a culture of shared ownership and continuous learning

Responsibilities

• Overseeing projects from inception to completion, ensuring high-quality, on-time, and on-budget delivery while managing scope, risks, and resources
• Leading end-to-end project management
• Driving project governance (scope, staffing, SOWs, timelines, risk mitigation)
• Partnering with leads to keep clients aligned and navigate escalations
• Ensuring deliverables exceed expectations
• Shaping realistic scopes that enable sustainable delivery
• Overseeing financial health (budgets, forecasts, invoicing)
• Emphasizing people management, mentoring, and facilitating effective collaboration across engineering and strategy project teams and client stakeholders
• Coaching and mentoring teammates, clients, and new hires
• Championing delivery excellence through retrospectives, continuous improvement, and process enhancements
• Driving and facilitating for clarity and alignment
• Partnering with project leads to ensure high-quality, timely deliverables
• Translating client and end-user needs into solution requirements
• Acting as the voice of the customer to guide solution development
• Managing and refining the product backlog
• Making real-time scope tradeoff decisions to maintain value and momentum
• Bringing a strategic lens to delivery, identifying opportunities for growth and innovation

Preferred Qualifications

Professional and academic credentials (PMP, CSM, or equivalent) are a nice bonus, but not required

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Company stock grant
• Top (‘gold’) level of health, dental and vision insurance ( KUNGFU.AI covers 100% of your premiums and 50% for any dependents)
• Health and dependent flexible spending accounts
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Generous vacation (that you're encouraged to take)
• Paid parental leave