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Project Manager cum Program Manager
PeopleNTech LLC
- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- Manager or above
- 9 months ago
- Machine Learning
- Agile
- Scrum
- AI
- Kanban
- Jira
- Confluence
- Miro
9 months ago
Location:Remote (USA)
Working Module: Remote with flexibility trave to Boston, MA / Atlanta, GA
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 6 Months + possible extension
Experience Required:10+ years
Bill Rate: 85/hr.
Number of interviews – 03
Mode of Interviews: Virtual / Video Interview
Tentative start date: ASAP
Role Overview
We are seeking a Contract Project Manager to support the planning, coordination, and delivery of GenAI product initiatives. This role focuses on operational execution, cross-team alignment, and ensuring that work progresses smoothly across engineering, design, and business stakeholders. The contractor will help drive project milestones, manage dependencies, streamline communication, and support agile delivery processes.
Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery & Coordination
- Manage day-to-day project execution for GenAI product builds, ensuring tasks, timelines, and deliverables stay on track.
- Coordinate work across engineering, design, and business teams to maintain alignment and remove blockers.
- Support delivery of features, enhancements, and proofs of concept by managing schedules, tracking progress, and escalating risks when necessary.
- Help maintain project documentation, sprint artifacts, and status reporting.
- Partner with Scrum Leads and team members to facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
- Ensure user stories and requirements are clearly documented and understood by the team.
- Help run demos, gather feedback, and support iterative delivery practices.
- Serve as a key communication channel across teams, ensuring updates, risks, and decisions are clearly conveyed.
- Organize and facilitate meetings with internal users and stakeholders to gather input, clarify priorities, and share project progress.
- Support alignment across product managers, product directors, engineering leads, and design partners.
- Assist in translating user needs and feedback into actionable work items.
- Consolidate qualitative and quantitative insights to support prioritization and planning.
- Promote agile ways of working and help maintain a positive, collaborative team environment.
- Track KPIs, deliverables, timelines, and resource needs, escalating issues proactively.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, simplifying workflows where possible.
Required Skills & Experience
- 3–7 years of experience in project management or PMO roles supporting digital, software, or AI-related workstreams.
- Experience working within agile delivery teams (Scrum, Kanban).
- Strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams.
- Experience partnering closely with engineering, design, and product leaders.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to Generative AI concepts or AI-enabled product development.
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, or similar platforms.
- Experience working in consulting or enterprise technology environments.
- Project management or agile certification (nice to have).
Project Manager cum Program Manager · PeopleNTech LLC