Sr. Technical Project Manager - AI Initiatives

Sr. Technical Project Manager - AI Initiatives - Contract - Orlando, FL - $80.00 - $85.00/hr
The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available. Our client is seeking a Sr.

Technical Project Manager - AI Initiatives in Orlando, FL
Role Description
AI Initiative Intake & Requirements Gathering
Partner with business leaders and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for AI, automation, generative AI, and AI-enabled tooling. Lead discovery sessions and workshops to understand current-state processes, business challenges, desired outcomes, and potential AI use cases. Gather, document, and refine business, functional, technical, data, security, and operational requirements for AI initiatives.

Translate business needs into clearly defined use cases, project requirements, success criteria, and measurable outcomes. Work with technical teams to determine whether proposed AI solutions are feasible based on available technology, data, integrations, infrastructure, and organizational capabilities. Identify dependencies, assumptions, constraints, risks, and gaps early in the discovery process. Ensure stakeholders are aligned on the problem being solved before moving AI initiatives into development or implementation.

AI Initiative Prioritization & Roadmap Management
Manage and maintain a pipeline of AI opportunities and initiatives across multiple business functions. Establish a consistent framework for evaluating and prioritizing AI initiatives based on factors such as business value, ROI, strategic alignment, technical feasibility, implementation effort, data readiness, risk, security, and time to value. Facilitate prioritization discussions with business and technology leaders when multiple teams or initiatives are competing for resources.

Help distinguish between AI ideas that are ready for execution, require additional discovery, or should be deferred. Partner with leadership to develop and maintain an enterprise AI initiative roadmap. Provide visibility into the status, priority, dependencies, and expected value of AI initiatives across the organization. Prepare recommendations and executive-level presentations to support investment and prioritization decisions. Project Planning & Estimation
Facilitate scope definition, discovery, planning, and estimation workshops for AI-related projects.

Develop project schedules, roadmaps, milestones, communication plans, and resource plans. Partner with technical and functional leads to estimate resources, costs, timelines, and dependencies. Document assumptions and dependencies established during discovery and estimation. Coordinate across business teams, Product, Technology, Data/Analytics, Information Security, Architecture, Legal/Compliance, and external vendors as appropriate. Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical AI teams, ensuring business requirements and priorities remain clear throughout delivery.

Manage project scope, schedule, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, budgets, and change control. Monitor progress against agreed-upon milestones and escalate risks or roadblocks requiring leadership decisions. Skills & Requirements
5+ years of relevant project, program, or technical project management experience. Experience leading complex, cross-functional technology initiatives in a large or matrixed organization. Demonstrated experience managing AI, generative AI, machine learning, automation, data, or emerging-technology initiatives strongly preferred.

Strong experience working directly with business stakeholders to gather, document, validate, and prioritize complex requirements. Ability to translate business problems into clearly defined technology use cases and actionable project requirements. Experience establishing prioritization frameworks and managing a portfolio or pipeline of competing technology initiatives. Strong understanding of the AI project lifecycle, including use-case discovery, data readiness, proof of concept, pilot, testing, governance, implementation, adoption, and measurement.

Familiarity with enterprise AI tooling and platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, OpenAI/LLM solutions, AI assistants or agents, automation platforms, and enterprise data/analytics environments. Ability to evaluate AI opportunities based on business value, feasibility, implementation effort, risk, data availability, and organizational readiness. Strong understanding of core project management disciplines, including estimation, project planning, resource planning, issue management, risk management, change management, and communication planning.

Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and managing multiple projects concurrently. Experience partnering with Product, Technology, Data, Security, Architecture, Legal/Compliance, and business teams. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to bring structure to loosely defined or emerging AI opportunities. Proactive, solution-oriented, and comfortable working through ambiguity. Strong judgment regarding when to make decisions independently, when to seek guidance, and when to escalate risks or issues.

Benefits/Other Compensation
This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit). Why Hays? You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers.

You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there's a position you really want, you're fully prepared to get it. Nervous about an upcoming interview? Unsure how to write a new resume? Visit the Hays Career Advice section to learn top tips to help you stand out from the crowd when job hunting. Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays' guiding principles is 'do the right thing'. We also believe that actions speak louder than words.

In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us. In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company.

Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text . Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.
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