Data Platforms & AI Programs Lead

Versant; New Jersey; On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant Media seeks a Program Manager, Data Platforms & Emerging Technology to drive planning, coordination, and execution of strategic initiatives across the Data Platform and AI/ML programs. This role partners with engineering, data, product, editorial, and business leaders to translate strategy into delivery, establish governance, and track progress.

You will enable scalable data platform and AI capabilities while fostering collaboration across Engineering, Product, Editorial, Corporate

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex technology initiatives involving data platforms, analytics, AI/ML, cloud technologies, or enterprise software.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong program governance, roadmap execution, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, product, data, and business stakeholders to enable delivery.

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 and mitigate cross-functional risks and dependencies that may impact program success.
• 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

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Jira

Confluence

Asana

Education

PMP or PgMP Certification

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Asana

Job description

Versant Media seeks a Program Manager, Data Platforms & Emerging Technology to drive planning, coordination, and execution of strategic initiatives across the Data Platform and AI/ML programs. This role partners with engineering, data, product, editorial, and business leaders to translate strategy into delivery, establish governance, and track progress.

You will enable scalable data platform and AI capabilities while fostering collaboration across Engineering, Product, Editorial, Corporate