About the Role
In this role, you will contribute to the implementation of an Enterprise AI Governance Platform for a major organization, supporting work at the intersection of enterprise technology, governance, risk, and digital transformation. This is an opportunity to join a high-impact project focused on building the structures, processes, and oversight needed to support responsible AI adoption at enterprise scale. You will be part of a delivery environment where strong project leadership, cross-functional coordination, and disciplined execution are essential to success.
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As Project Manager – AI Governance & Digital Transformation, you will play a central role in driving a complex implementation from planning through delivery. You will work across technical and business stakeholders to help align delivery with organizational goals, governance expectations, and operational priorities while supporting a major enterprise transformation initiative.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the end-to-end delivery of an Enterprise AI Governance Platform implementation.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, resource plans, and delivery roadmaps.
- Ensure delivery meets agreed scope, timelines, budgets, quality standards, business objectives, and contractual requirements.
- Monitor progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation and corrective action plans.
- Manage project dependencies, change requests, issues, and escalations.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and communicate with stakeholders.
- Oversee platform planning, deployment, configuration, integration, and testing.
- Coordinate AI current-state assessments, gap analyses, governance framework development, governance workflows, risk management processes, and compliance monitoring.
- Ensure alignment with applicable Saudi regulatory frameworks, including SDAIA requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Saudi national with eligibility to work in Saudi Arabia and the ability to work on-site.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
- 4+ years of experience in IT project management, including delivery of digital transformation initiatives and enterprise IT platform implementations.
- Hands-on experience with project planning and tracking tools such as MS Project, Jira, or Primavera.
- Strong background in enterprise risk and compliance processes, including governance workflows covering approvals, assessments, reporting, and controls.
- Experience working with Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery methodologies, with solid resource and dependency management capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI governance or AI implementation projects, along with working knowledge of AI governance concepts.
- Experience delivering projects for Saudi government or semi-government organizations.
- Background delivering projects in regulated enterprise environments such as banking, finance, or government.
- Master's degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, or Digital Transformation.
- Experience with AI governance platforms such as IBM watsonx.governance or similar.
- Experience with IT service management platforms such as ServiceNow.
- Familiarity with relevant SDAIA requirements.
- PMP or PRINCE2 certification.
Benefits
- Private Health Insurance
- Training & Development
