Project Manager - Enterprise AI & Life Sciences

Links Technology Solutions, Inc.; Town of Mount Pleasant (NY); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401(k) matching

Long-term professional development

Job summary

Links Technology Solutions, Inc. in Tarrytown, NY is seeking a Project Manager to lead enterprise data, analytics, and AI initiatives.

The role focuses on Agile delivery, cross‑functional coordination, testing, release management, and operational execution of AI-enabled technology solutions. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on PM experience in technology, data, or IT, with strong Jira proficiency, UAT coordination, and risk management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on project management experience supporting technology, software development, data, or enterprise IT initiatives.
• Strong experience managing Agile/Scrum delivery processes, sprint planning, backlog management, and software releases.
• Experience coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect resolution, test cycles, and release readiness activities.
• Experience maintaining RAID logs, action trackers, decision registers, project plans, and executive status reports.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day project execution across assigned workstreams, ensuring deliverables, milestones, and software releases remain on schedule.
• Facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Maintain Jira epics, user stories, sprint plans, and project trackers aligned with the overall delivery roadmap.
• Coordinate onboarding activities for business users and citizen developers, including system access, training, and feedback collection.
• Manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT), test cycles, defect tracking, validation documentation, and release readiness activities.

Skills

Project management

Agile

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Jira

Job description

PROJECT MANAGER – ENTERPRISE DATA & AI

Location: Tarrytown, NY (Hybrid – MUST be able to work onsite 3 days per week)

Pay Rate: $105/hr

Hours: Full-Time hours

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Summary:

Our pharmaceutical client is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the delivery of enterprise-wide data, analytics, and AI initiatives. This hands‑on role will focus on Agile project delivery, cross-functional coordination, testing, release management, and operational execution of AI-enabled technology solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong project management experience, excellent organizational skills, and an interest in generative and agentic AI technologies.

Description – Project Manager – Enterprise Data & AI:

• Manage day-to-day project execution across assigned workstreams, ensuring deliverables, milestones, and software releases remain on schedule.
• Facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Maintain Jira epics, user stories, sprint plans, and project trackers aligned with the overall delivery roadmap.
• Collaborate with senior project managers, program managers, product management, engineering teams, delivery partners, and business stakeholders.
• Coordinate requirements‑gathering sessions, design discussions, and working meetings with business leads and subject matter experts.
• Document key decisions, action items, dependencies, and follow‑ups, ensuring timely resolution and completion.
• Coordinate onboarding activities for business users and citizen developers, including system access, training, and feedback collection.
• Manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT), test cycles, defect tracking, validation documentation, and release readiness activities.
• Coordinate monthly software releases, ensuring testing, approvals, validation evidence, and deployment requirements are completed on schedule.
• Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies), decision logs, action trackers, and project documentation.
• Prepare weekly project status reports, release summaries, meeting notes, and leadership updates.
• Organize and maintain audit-ready documentation, approvals, meeting records, and testing evidence in SharePoint.
• Utilize Microsoft 365 Copilot and approved AI tools to streamline meeting summaries, reporting, and documentation, ensuring human review before distribution.
• Proactively identify project risks, resolve operational issues, and elevate concerns to program leadership when necessary.
• Independently manage assigned responsibilities, drive outstanding action items to completion, and support continuous improvement of project delivery processes.

Qualifications – Project Manager – Enterprise Data & AI:

• 5+ years of hands‑on project management experience supporting technology, software development, data, or enterprise IT initiatives.
• Strong experience managing Agile/Scrum delivery processes, sprint planning, backlog management, and software releases.
• Proficiency with Jira or comparable project management tools for managing epics, user stories, sprint tracking, and project reporting.
• Experience coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect resolution, test cycles, and release readiness activities.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, delivery governance, risk management, and project documentation.
• Experience maintaining RAID logs, action trackers, decision registers, project plans, and executive status reports.
• Working knowledge of SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Experience working with cross‑functional teams, including software engineering, product management, business stakeholders, and external delivery partners.
• Strong organizational, communication, documentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities, resolve issues, and drive deliverables to completion.
• Strong interest in generative AI, agentic AI, and AI‑enabled enterprise applications.
• Experience supporting technology projects within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or other regulated industries strongly preferred.
• Exposure to computer system validation (CSV), change control, compliance requirements, or audit‑ready documentation strongly preferred.
• Experience coordinating multi‑team technology initiatives and supporting enterprise data, analytics, or AI programs is a plus.

Benefits:

• Competitive hourly pay rate: $105/hr
• Available health, life, vision, and dental insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Opportunity to support innovative enterprise data and AI initiatives within the pharmaceutical industry
• Long‑term professional development opportunities in AI‑enabled technology delivery

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