Senior AI Delivery Leader & Orchestration Expert

Artisan Management LLC; Asheville (NC); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Remote work environments

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k matching

Job summary

Artisan Studios in Asheville, NC seeks a Senior Manager, Delivery to lead client engagements in our Generative Orchestration practice and to build the playbooks and templates that make AI-driven delivery repeatable.

You will coach managers and analysts, own critical decisions, and partner with sales on scoping while growing into broader leadership over time. This role blends client work with evolving practice leadership and delivery standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years delivering software, data, or cloud projects.
• 5+ years leading delivery teams and multiple engagements.
• Experience in consulting or professional services with executive relationships.
• Hands-on agile delivery and tooling setup (Jira/Confluence).
• Daily use of generative AI tools with ownership of output.
• Experience coaching project managers, scrum masters, or analysts.
• Clear written and verbal communication with executives and engineers.
• Experience delivering AI/machine learning or agentic solutions.
• Working knowledge of AWS and delivery transformations.
• PMP, SAFe, or AWS certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements end to end as senior Orchestrator, owning outcomes.
• Partner with client executives and delivery teams to govern scope and readiness.
• Gate kickoff on readiness: data access, governance, environments, working agreements.
• Own key decisions on AI output vs client intent and log decisions.
• Explain technical decisions in plain language to keep engineers focused.
• Build and maintain delivery assets: playbooks, templates, readiness assessments.
• Coach managers, scrum masters, and analysts as they grow into leadership roles.
• Identify delivery risks early and drive mitigations with engineering and design leads.
• Collaborate with sales and solutions architecture on scoping and estimates.
• Contribute to hiring standards for the practice.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Client engagement

Agile delivery

Jira

Confluence

Generative AI tools

Executive communication

People management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

AWS

Job description

Artisan Studios in Asheville, NC seeks a Senior Manager, Delivery to lead client engagements in our Generative Orchestration practice and to build the playbooks and templates that make AI-driven delivery repeatable.

You will coach managers and analysts, own critical decisions, and partner with sales on scoping while growing into broader leadership over time. This role blends client work with evolving practice leadership and delivery standards.