AI Architect

Kaav Inc; New York (NY); Ibrido; USD 180.000 - 230.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Kaav Inc in New York City is seeking a Senior Enterprise AI PMO Manager to establish governance, cadence, and decision forums across a multi-year AI program. You will translate the AI strategy into integrated workstreams, maintain an enterprise view of roadmap progress, risks, actions, and dependencies, and align business, technology, and finance partners to deliver measurable outcomes.

The role requires strong executive communication, portfolio management, and change readiness to enable scaled

Competenze

• Experience leading or supporting large-scale technology/AI programs in regulated environments.
• Strong ability to translate strategy into executable, milestone-driven plans.
• Proven track record of executive-level reporting and governance.

Mansioni

• Establish and operate the Enterprise AI PMO, including program governance, reporting cadence, delivery standards, dependency tracking, escalation paths, and decision forums.
• Translate the multi-year AI strategy into an integrated program plan with workstreams, accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, required inputs, and measurable outcomes.
• Maintain a single enterprise view of roadmap progress, risks, issues, actions, decisions, dependencies, resource constraints, and executive follow-ups across the AI program.
• Manage the AI use-case intake process and ensure proposals align with business objectives and required funding.
• Coordinate prioritization discussions so leadership can evaluate use cases against strategic value, readiness, complexity, and cost.
• Partner with business transformation leads to convert approved use cases into project plans and success metrics.
• Support milestone-based funding governance with Finance and accountable initiative owners.
• Produce portfolio-level views of investment, forecast, value at risk, realized benefits, adoption, and expected returns for senior leadership.
• Coordinate delivery across cross-functional AI workstreams and maintain integrated project plans, RAID logs, and dependency maps.
• Facilitate structured delivery cadences, identify blockers, and drive follow-ups to resolution.
• Track program-level budget, forecast, and financial reporting inputs with Technology Finance.

Conoscenze

PMO leadership

AI program governance

RAID management

Executive reporting

Stakeholder management

Budget forecasting

Cross-functional coordination

Change management

Descrizione del lavoro

Location: New York City – 3days/week onsite

Duration: 12+ Months

Key Responsibilities

Establish and operate the Enterprise AI PMO, including program governance, reporting cadence, delivery standards, dependency tracking, escalation paths, and decision forums.

Translate the multi-year AI strategy into an integrated program plan with workstreams, accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, required inputs, and measurable outcomes.

Maintain a single enterprise view of roadmap progress, risks, issues, actions, decisions, dependencies, resource constraints, and executive follow-ups across the AI program.

Use Case Intake, Planning & Prioritization

Manage the AI use-case intake process and ensure proposals are captured consistently with business objective, sponsor, expected value, feasibility, delivery approach, control considerations, and required funding.

Coordinate prioritization discussions so leadership can evaluate use cases against strategic value, readiness, complexity, cost, delivery capacity, risk, and expected adoption.

Partner with business transformation leads and workstream owners to convert approved use cases into clear project plans, milestones, acceptance criteria, and success metrics.

Support milestone-based funding governance across approval, proof-of-value, scale-up, and transition to business-as-usual, in partnership with Finance and accountable initiative owners.

Partner with the CFO organization and Controllers to validate assumptions, baselines, savings, realized outcomes, and ongoing investment performance.

Produce portfolio-level views of investment, forecast, value at risk, realized benefits, adoption, and expected returns for senior leadership.

Delivery Coordination & RAID Management

Coordinate delivery across cross-functional AI workstreams and pods by aligning accountable technical, business, and control-function owners around shared plans, milestones, and outcomes.

Maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestone trackers, RAID logs, dependency maps, action registers, and escalation items across the Enterprise AI Program.

Facilitate structured delivery cadences, identify blockers early, drive follow-ups to resolution, and help ensure workstream owners have the inputs and decisions needed to maintain execution momentum.

Track program-level budget, forecast, resource assumptions, funding approvals, and financial reporting inputs for the Enterprise AI Program in partnership with Technology Finance and workstream owners.

Partner with FinOps and Technology Finance to establish transparency over compute, token consumption, infrastructure, licenses, vendor, and consulting costs.

Provide clear views of committed spend, utilization, run rate, forecast variance, cost risks, and linkage to approved use cases and business outcomes.

Controls, Risk & Regulatory Readiness

Coordinate with security, data governance, privacy, legal, compliance, model risk, architecture, and audit partners to embed required controls into the program lifecycle.

Help ensure initiatives progress through defined control gates with appropriate documentation, approvals, evidence, and traceability.

Maintain program-level risk reporting and support timely escalation of material control issues, decisions, and remediation actions through the appropriate forums.

Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Management

Prepare concise, decision-oriented status reporting for the CIO, CFO, Enterprise AI leadership, steering forums, QBRs, and other senior governance venues.

Facilitate working sessions and leadership forums, capture decisions, document actions, confirm owners, track deadlines, and support timely escalation where needed.

Act as a central coordination point for program status, priorities, risks, dependencies, escalations, and accountability across business, technology, and corporate functions.

Change, Adoption & Organizational Readiness

Partner with Change and Training leadership to embed communications, role-based enablement, safe-use guidance, feedback loops, and adoption measures into funded initiatives.

Support divisional champion models and strengthen local ownership of outcomes, utilization, workflow change, and sustained business impact.

Coordinate launch- and scale-readiness reviews to ensure capabilities can be adopted safely and sustainably.

Qualifications & Experience

Significant experience supporting or managing large-scale technology, AI, digital transformation, or strategic programs within financial services or another complex, regulated environment.

Proven ability to bring structure to complex or evolving programs through integrated project plans, governance routines, RAID management, stakeholder forums, milestone tracking, and executive reporting.

Strong understanding of program delivery, portfolio management, business-case development, prioritization, financial governance, benefits realization, risk management, and organizational change.

Demonstrated ability to influence senior business, technology, finance, and control-function leaders without relying on direct authority.

Exceptional written, verbal, financial, commercial, and executive communication skills, including the ability to create concise decision-ready materials.