Senior Technical Program Manager - AI Delivery Lead

IDC Corporate; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

IDC is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager Contractor to own the integrated NEXUS program plan across multiple workstreams. You will coordinate dependencies, manage risks, and drive delivery with an external partner across US/Europe/APAC time zones.

This 16-week contract requires 8+ years in technical program management, strong cross-team influence, and disciplined logs to keep decisions traceable. Hybrid work model and global collaboration are core to the role.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical project or program management.
• 3+ years running multi-workstream software/workflow delivery programs.
• Ownership of integrated delivery plans with hard deadlines.
• Experience managing external development vendors against delivery commitments.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated NEXUS program plan across all workstreams.
• Run sprint planning, standups, and cross-pod syncs to keep on schedule.
• Manage risk/issue/dependency logs end to end with owners and next steps.
• Produce executive-grade status reports for sponsors and stakeholders.

Skills

Stakeholder influence

Dependency management

Executive communication

Vendor management

Program governance

Technical fluency

Risk/issue/decision logs

Cross-workstream delivery

Contract flexibility

Tools

Coda

Smartsheet

Jira

Job description

IDC is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager Contractor to own the integrated NEXUS program plan across multiple workstreams. You will coordinate dependencies, manage risks, and drive delivery with an external partner across US/Europe/APAC time zones.

This 16-week contract requires 8+ years in technical program management, strong cross-team influence, and disciplined logs to keep decisions traceable. Hybrid work model and global collaboration are core to the role.