IT Project Manager, AI Projects and Programs

AccruePartners; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AccruePartners is seeking a functional Project Manager based in Fort Mill, SC, to support critical AI and technology programs. This role involves liaising between business needs and technical teams, ensuring effective execution of AI-driven projects.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in IT project management, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage stakeholders and vendor relationships effectively. This position provides a unique opportunity to influence the success of enterprise initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT project or program management experience.
• Ability to translate business needs into project plans and execution milestones.
• Experience with agile or hybrid delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, delivery, governance, and stakeholder communication.
• Ensure AI solutions produce measurable business impact.
• Coordinate across technology, data, and business teams.

Skills

IT project management

Agile methodologies

Data analytics

Stakeholder communication

Vendor management

Tools

Jira

AI tools

Job description

THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

• Established enterprise organization with a strong technology function supporting business‑critical operations across multiple teams and workstreams.
• Technology leadership is investing in AI‑enabled tools, automation, data‑driven initiatives, and broader enterprise transformation.
• The team is looking for a highly capable functional Project Manager who can bridge business needs, technical teams, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
• This role will support high‑visibility AI and technology programs tied directly to process improvement, adoption, governance, and measurable business value.
• You will partner closely with IT, data, cybersecurity, infrastructure, business operations, and third‑party vendors to move strategic initiatives from concept through implementation.

LOCATION

Fort Mill, SC based opportunity with onsite collaboration expected.

What They Offer You

• Opportunity to step into a highly visible role supporting AI, automation, data, and enterprise technology initiatives.
• Ability to help shape how AI solutions are planned, governed, deployed, adopted, and measured across the business.
• Exposure to executive stakeholders, technical leaders, business teams, and enterprise‑wide transformation efforts.
• A chance to bring structure, accountability, and delivery discipline to emerging AI and data‑driven programs.
• Opportunity to own meaningful project outcomes, not just status reporting or task tracking.

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT

• The organization is actively advancing AI‑enabled initiatives and needs a strong functional PM to drive structure, execution, and adoption.
• This person will lead planning, delivery, governance, risk management, stakeholder communication, and value realization across AI‑related programs.
• The role will help define business problems, gather requirements, develop use cases, and ensure AI solutions produce measurable business impact.
• This person will coordinate across internal technology teams, data teams, business stakeholders, and third‑party vendors to keep initiatives moving.
• Success in this role requires someone who has built, implemented, deployed, or rolled out meaningful solutions for a business, not just managed technical tasks.

THE BACKGROUND THAT FITS

• 5+ years of IT project or program management experience, ideally supporting data, analytics, automation, AI, or enterprise technology initiatives.
• Strong functional Project Manager background with the ability to translate business needs into project plans, delivery roadmaps, and execution milestones.
• Experience working across business, IT, data, engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and vendor teams.
• Comfortable managing scope, timelines, budgets, vendor spend, resource plans, dependencies, risks, and executive‑level communication.
• Experience with agile or hybrid delivery environments, including Jira or similar tools for backlog management, sprint reporting, dependencies, and project visibility.
• Working knowledge of AI, machine learning, generative AI, automation, analytics, or data‑driven initiatives is highly valuable.
• Prior exposure to AI tools or LLMs such as Copilot, Claude, OpenAI, or similar platforms would be a strong plus.