Data Platforms & AI Programs Lead

Versant Media; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

VERSANT Media is seeking a Program Manager to lead strategic initiatives across data platforms, AI/ML, analytics, and emerging technology. You will partner with engineering, data, product, editorial, and operations teams to translate strategy into delivery and track progress against goals.

The role requires strong governance, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to communicate program status to executives. Location-based duties and in-person collaboration may apply.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in program management or related roles.
• Experience delivering data platforms, analytics, AI/ML, cloud technologies.
• Strong planning, roadmap execution, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Experience cross‑functionally with engineering, product, data, and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management in fast-paced environments.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, Asana or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic initiatives across Data Platforms, AI/ML, analytics, and emerging technology programs.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans, milestones, timelines, and dependency tracking across multiple teams.
• Coordinate execution across engineering, product, data, editorial, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment and predictable delivery.
• Facilitate program governance, including roadmap reviews, status reporting, risk management, and executive communications.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate cross-functional risks and dependencies that may impact program success. Partner with Data Platform, ML Engineering, and Innovation leaders to track progress against strategic objectives and key results.
• Support prioritization and intake processes for new data, analytics, AI, and automation initiatives.
• Maintain visibility into project health, resource allocation, delivery metrics, and business outcomes.
• Coordinate readiness activities for major platform launches, AI deployments, and technology rollouts.

Skills

Program management

Data platforms

AI/ML initiatives

Roadmap planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Cloud technologies

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Asana

Job description

VERSANT Media is seeking a Program Manager to lead strategic initiatives across data platforms, AI/ML, analytics, and emerging technology. You will partner with engineering, data, product, editorial, and operations teams to translate strategy into delivery and track progress against goals.

The role requires strong governance, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to communicate program status to executives. Location-based duties and in-person collaboration may apply.