AI Integration Program Manager
Summary
Manages end-to-end AI integration projects at a building materials manufacturer — from business cases and project charters through go-live, adoption tracking, and sustained value realization, with heavy emphasis on project governance, cross-functional coordination, and change management.
- Build business cases and ROI assumptions
- Build integrated project plans with milestones
- Challenge assumptions and require evidence
- Consolidate decision ready materials and evidence
- Convert initiatives into project charters
- Coordinate AI steering group submissions and approvals
- Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders
- Coordinate user acceptance testing and deployment
- Create delivery sequence with dependencies
- Create executive portfolio dashboard
- Define baseline metrics and success criteria
- Define decision rights and accountable owners
- Define pilot exit criteria and scale plans
- Develop change management and adoption plans
- Drive stakeholder decisions and deliverable readiness
- Ensure AI governance cybersecurity and privacy alignment
- Ensure solutions are supported and documented
- Escalate priority conflicts and capacity constraints
- Evaluate alternate architectures and vendors
- Identify required legal compliance and IT reviews
- Lead initiatives from requirements through go live
- Lead roadblock resolution with phased solutions
- Maintain source of truth for project status
- Monitor usage and coordinate corrective actions
- Own integrated AI automation systems roadmap
- Partner with IT to align business urgency
- Plan cutover and manage communications and training
- Present initiatives and manage approval gates
- Prioritize portfolio using business value
- Run project governance risk and issue management
- Track post go live adoption and sustained value
- Translate operational needs into business requirements