Senior Project Manager

Pyramid Consulting, Inc; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 76,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Senior Project Manager for an onsite, Irving, TX contract role. The Senior PM will own end-to-end delivery of AI and Personalization Platform initiatives, with a focus on roadmap development, risk management, and cross-functional coordination.

Requirements include 7+ years of PM experience, PMP certification, and experience with Agile/Scrum and AI/ML lifecycle. This onsite role offers long-term potential and competitive hourly pay.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project or program management experience delivering technical, software, data, platform, AI/ML, or digital initiatives.
• PMP certification from the Project Management Institute required.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional delivery across product, engineering, data, architecture, operations, and business teams on concurrent, interdependent initiatives.
• Working knowledge of the AI/ML and platform delivery lifecycle, including data readiness, solution development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI and Personalization Platform initiatives, including problem definition, scope, integrated plans, schedules, risks, dependencies, stakeholder communication, launch readiness, and post-launch measurement.
• Build and maintain an integrated platform roadmap, sequencing foundational capabilities, product increments, technical enablers, and enterprise dependencies.
• Translate platform strategy, business needs, technical assessments, and prioritized opportunities into milestone-based delivery plans with clear owners, timelines, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Establish and run a clear intake and prioritization process for platform requests, balancing strategic value, customer impact, data readiness, technical feasibility, capacity, cost, and risk.
• Coordinate delivery across product, AI/ML engineering, software engineering, data engineering, data science, architecture, platform operations, QA, privacy, security, legal, and vendor teams.
• Drive the AI and personalization delivery lifecycle from discovery through solution design, development, evaluation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Establish practical governance for AI and personalization delivery, including privacy, security, responsible-AI controls, data lineage, and model documentation.
• Run Agile delivery cadences, managing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions (RAID).

Skills

PM experience

Cross-functional leadership

Agile/Scrum

PMP

Executive communication

AI/ML lifecycle

MLOps familiarity

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Smartsheet

MS Project

Job description

Immediate need for a talented Senior Project Manager. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Irving, TX (Onsite).

Job ID: 26-29044

Pay Range: $55/hr - $60/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI and Personalization Platform initiatives, including problem definition, scope, integrated plans, schedules, risks, dependencies, stakeholder communication, launch readiness, and post-launch measurement.
• Build and maintain an integrated platform roadmap, sequencing foundational capabilities, product increments, technical enablers, and enterprise dependencies.
• Translate platform strategy, business needs, technical assessments, and prioritized opportunities into milestone-based delivery plans with clear owners, timelines, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Establish and run a clear intake and prioritization process for platform requests, balancing strategic value, customer impact, data readiness, technical feasibility, capacity, cost, and risk.
• Coordinate delivery across product, AI/ML engineering, software engineering, data engineering, data science, architecture, platform operations, QA, privacy, security, legal, and vendor teams.
• Drive the AI and personalization delivery lifecycle from discovery through solution design, development, evaluation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Establish practical governance for AI and personalization delivery, including privacy, security, responsible-AI controls, data lineage, and model documentation.
• Run Agile delivery cadences, managing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions (RAID).

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 7+ years of project or program management experience delivering technical, software, data, platform, AI/ML, or digital initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• PMP certification from the Project Management Institute required.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional delivery across product, engineering, data, architecture, operations, and business teams on concurrent, interdependent initiatives.
• Working knowledge of the AI/ML and platform delivery lifecycle, including data readiness, solution development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum delivery and delivery tooling such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, or MS Project.
• Strong executive communication and status-reporting skills, with the ability to articulate complex AI concepts to both technical and business audiences.
• Experience with generative AI, large language models, or conversational AI platforms.
• Familiarity with MLOps, model monitoring, or experimentation platforms.
• Additional certifications such as PMI-ACP, CSM/PSM, or an AI/ML, product, cloud, or data certification.

Our client is a leading Retail Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions.

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.