AI Project Manager Senior

About Master Works and Nabeh

Master Works is seeking an AI Project Manager Senior for its subsidiary, Nabeh. Nabeh specializes in delivering AI-powered solutions that automate operations, boost efficiency, and drive innovation for organizations. Its expertise covers computer vision, LLM applications, speech-to-text, data intelligence, and low-code AI solutions. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Role Overview

The Senior AI Project Manager will lead the end-to-end delivery of AI, computer vision, Generative AI (GenAI), and intelligent-platform projects. This role involves translating contractual commitments into secure, technically feasible, and measurable client outcomes. Key responsibilities include managing project scope, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, and formal acceptance. The Senior AI Project Manager will serve as the primary coordination point between clients, AI and engineering teams, infrastructure, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery and alignment with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project initiation and handover from Sales, reviewing contracts, SOWs, POs, deliverables, commercial milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain integrated project management plans, detailed schedules, milestones, forecasts, and approved project baselines.
• Manage project kickoffs, stakeholder communication, risk and issue tracking, change requests, status reporting, steering committees, and escalation processes.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, contracts, approvals, deliverables, and correspondence.
• Coordinate the end-to-end AI delivery lifecycle, including discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, data preparation, model development, integration, deployment, UAT, go-live, and hyper care.
• Track AI model performance requirements and success measures, including precision, recall, false positives, inference latency, operational monitoring, and retraining requirements.
• Monitor readiness of datasets, development environments, GPUs, edge devices, camera streams, APIs, cloud/on-premises infrastructure, cybersecurity reviews, licenses, and third-party integrations.
• Coordinate technical validation, security and privacy approvals, client UAT, production readiness, user training, handover, and service transition.
• Coordinate AI engineers, technical leads, DevOps, infrastructure, business analysts, QA, UI/UX, support, field teams, and subcontractors.
• Monitor project progress, identify blockers and resource constraints, and coordinate recovery plans and escalations.
• Coordinate site readiness, permits, logistics, safety requirements, and vendor mobilization for field and edge AI deployments.
• Track project budgets, resource utilization, timesheets, vendor purchase orders, cost-to-complete, financial milestones, invoicing requirements, and potential margin exposure.
• Coordinate signed acceptance documents, completion certificates (CoCs), and supporting evidence for timely invoicing and payment.
• Manage subcontractor deliverables, schedules, dependencies, and handovers, coordinating contractual and commercial changes.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day client contact for project delivery, communicating progress, issues, corrective actions, and decisions clearly in English and Arabic.
• Lead project closure activities, including documentation handover, lessons learned, financial reconciliation, and transition to support or managed services.
• Prepare regular project status reports highlighting milestones, risks, budget status, delivery progress, outstanding actions, and issues.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, AI Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of project delivery experience, including at least 2 years managing AI, analytics, computer vision, software/platform, or complex integration projects.
• Strong knowledge of project management practices aligned with PMI principles (scope, schedule, risk, stakeholder, procurement, cost, quality, and change control).
• Experience managing Agile or hybrid project delivery methodologies.
• Practical understanding of AI/ML delivery lifecycles and technical dependencies (data, integrations, infrastructure, model validation, production readiness).
• Experience working with enterprise clients, vendors, SOWs, POs, project budgets, invoicing milestones, and formal acceptance processes.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint) and project management tools (MS Project, Jira).
• Strong leadership, organizational, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, project risks, deadlines, and cross-functional dependencies effectively.
• Ability to maintain accurate project documentation and handle confidential business and client information professionally.
• Willingness to work onsite with clients and travel within Saudi Arabia as project requirements dictate.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP or an equivalent project management certification.
• AI project management training or certification, such as CPMAI.
• Experience in smart cities, video analytics/CCTV, edge AI, Generative AI, cloud or on-premises deployments, or government-sector programs.
• Exposure to Saudi client environments, site and traffic-safety governance, data protection, and cybersecurity processes.
• Experience using enterprise project and resource management systems.