Senior Project Manager

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

What you will be doing?

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Project Manager.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Expert in advanced project management methodologies, strategic planning, and complex contract management. Deep understanding of industry best practices and business unit operations.

• Work & Complexity: Oversees large, complex projects or programs, manages cross-functional teams, and ensures alignment with organizational goals. Resolves high-impact risks and issues.

• Quality & Independence: Sets quality benchmarks, drives strategic initiatives, and operates with broad autonomy and accountability.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads and mentors project teams, fosters collaboration across departments, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and clients.

• Consulting & Engagement: Advises executives and stakeholders on project strategy, drives innovation, and champions continuous improvement across the organization.

As your initial career assignment, you will support the priorities and vital functions of our shared services teams as a(n) Senior Project Manager.

AIS is looking for a Project Manager who wants to own outcomes, not simply administer tasks. This person will help customers turn cloud, security, data, AI, modern-work, and business-application goals into executable delivery plans and measurable results. They will create clarity, manage risk, drive decisions, and keep delivery aligned to the result the customer is trying to achieve.

What you will be doing

Project and customer outcome ownership

• Establish a shared definition of success with the customer, technical lead, and AIS stakeholders.

• Translate the statement of work and customer objectives into an outcome-based delivery plan.

• Own schedules, milestones, dependencies, actions, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and customer commitments.

• Maintain alignment among activity, contractual deliverables, customer adoption, and intended business outcomes.

• Identify execution drift early and drive corrective decisions.

• Escalate with a clear statement of impact, options, recommendation, and decision needed.

Consultative engagement and delivery management

• Facilitate discovery, planning, status, and working sessions that surface assumptions, constraints, priorities, and unresolved decisions.

• Explain tradeoffs among scope, schedule, cost, resources, risk, and outcomes.

• Coordinate startup, onboarding, access, staffing, governance, communication, and delivery cadence.

• Monitor progress, hours, budget, staffing, dependencies, and delivery health with appropriate oversight.

• Identify potential scope changes and coordinate review.

• Drive acceptance, closeout, lessons learned, experience capture, and follow-on assessment.

MSC operations and development into BD Operations

• Maintain accurate project and portfolio information in designated AIS systems.

• Support MSC gate-review preparation and opportunity-to-project handoffs.

• Track missing actions, owners, approvals, staffing decisions, and deadlines.

• Support concise portfolio and pipeline reporting.

• Improve recurring checklists, templates, playbooks, and operating procedures.

• Use approved AI and automation tools to reduce administrative effort while retaining human judgment.

• Progressively support selected pipeline, proposal, Marketplace, reporting, staffing-readiness, and opportunity-handoff workflows after demonstrating reliable delivery performance.

Required experience

Two to five years in project coordination, project management, delivery operations, PMO support, consulting operations, implementation, or a related discipline.

Required domain exposure

Experience supporting technology, consulting, professional services, cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure, software, data, AI, business applications, or managed services.

Core PM skills

Working knowledge of planning, scheduling, status reporting, risk and issue management, resource coordination, dependency management, documentation, and budget tracking.

Communication requirement

Strong writing and the ability to translate complex discussions into clear actions, decisions, owners, risks, and next steps for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Managing@AIS

As an AIS People Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Coaching: Helping employees navigate challenges, strengthen relationships, and grow the skills that support success at AIS.

• Career Development: Supporting employees in exploring growth opportunities at AIS and aligning development plans to reach their goals.

• Performance Management: Creating clarity through clear expectations, regular feedback, and proactive support when performance concerns arise.

• Accountability and Results: Holding employees accountable for meeting expectations, delivering results, and adhering to company policies and values.

• Promotions and Compensation: Partnering with HR to evaluate and recommend promotions, salary adjustments, and rewards that reflect performance and potential.

• Timecard Approval: Ensuring accurate and timely approval of timecards.

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $125,000-$189,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

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