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About the Role

PMs for Hire, through its subsidiary Nabeh, is seeking an experienced AI Project Manager to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves planning, leading, and controlling AI projects across the entire Project Management Lifecycle. The role ensures alignment with organizational PMO governance, contractual commitments, and the CPMAI™ analytics lifecycle phases to achieve measurable business outcomes.

Core Responsibilities

The AI Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of AI project delivery, from initial concept to post-delivery monitoring. This includes managing project scope, schedule, cost, and resources while ensuring effective communication and risk management across various project phases.

Project Management Lifecycle

• Initiation & Alignment: Develop and maintain the Project Charter, ensuring alignment with business objectives, success criteria, and value realization goals. Identify and engage key stakeholders, defining their expectations and communication needs.
• Planning: Establish and baseline the Integrated Project Management Plan, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, risk, communication, and procurement components. Define Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), milestones, delivery dependencies, and acceptance criteria. Plan resource allocation in coordination with technical leads and functional managers, ensuring alignment between delivery plans, payment milestones, and contractual terms.
• Execution: Direct and manage project work in accordance with the approved project plan and governance framework. Coordinate cross-functional teams (AI, data, platform, infrastructure) to support CPMAI™ phases such as business understanding, data understanding, modeling, deployment, and monitoring. Serve as the primary point of integration between PMO, technical teams, vendors, and clients.
• Monitoring & Controlling: Monitor project performance against baselined scope, schedule, and cost using defined KPIs. Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID). Control scope through formal Change Control processes and assess impact on time, cost, and value. Produce accurate and timely project status reports and forecasts for stakeholders.
• Closure & Value Realization: Ensure formal project closure, including deliverable acceptance, documentation handover, and lessons learned. Support value realization tracking and post-delivery performance monitoring where applicable. Ensure all contractual and governance artifacts (*, CoCs, invoices, approvals) are completed and archived.

Required Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5-10 years of professional experience in project management, ideally with a focus on AI or related technology projects.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, working within a dynamic project management framework.

Application Details

The salary for this position is not disclosed. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply to learn more about this opportunity.