Open Innovation AI is a global technology company that specializes in developing advanced solutions for managing AI workloads. Its flagship product, the Open Innovation Cluster Manager (OICM), orchestrates complex AI tasks efficiently across diverse infrastructures. The platform is hardware-agnostic, optimized for various GPUs and accelerators hardware, and facilitates seamless integration and scalability for enterprise AI applications. Open Innovation AI focuses on optimizing and simplifying AI workload management and making AI technologies accessible to organizations of all sizes.
With its innovative solutions, companies can reduce operational costs, accelerate time to value, and maximize their return on investment, ensuring that their AI strategies contribute directly to enhanced business outcomes.
The Project Manager – AI Infrastructure & Platforms leads end-to-end delivery of complex AI infrastructure, platform, and technology transformation initiatives from planning through operational handover. The role combines strong governance discipline, technical awareness, and stakeholder management to deliver consistent outcomes across multi-workstream environments.
Scope of Delivery- Lead delivery of AI infrastructure environments: data center readiness, compute, GPU infrastructure, storage, networking, virtualization, container platforms, and enterprise integrations.
- Maintain control of milestones, dependencies, risks, budgets, and client commitments across the full project lifecycle.
- Drive disciplined planning, RAID management, change control, executive reporting, and stakeholder engagement within a structured Project Delivery Framework.
- Coordinate vendor management, implementation readiness, deployment governance, operational transition, and client acceptance activities.
- Serve as primary delivery owner, representing the company in governance, steering, and escalation forums.
- Coordinate cross-functional work streams to align technical, operational, and client-facing activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans: schedules, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, resourcing, and acceptance criteria.
- Drive RAID management, change control, milestone governance, and executive reporting.
- Monitor performance against scope, schedule, budget, quality, and contractual commitments.
- Track project financials including budget burn, vendor payment milestones, procurement status, and change requests.
- Ensure compliance with PMO frameworks, governance processes, and reporting standards.
- Manage client governance forums, steering committees, and executive reviews; handle challenging stakeholder situations professionally.
- Coordinate with external vendors, OEMs, data center providers, and network/ISP partners to maintain aligned delivery schedules.
- Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints ensuring mitigation and recovery plans are in place.
- Drive structured weekly status meetings, dashboards, and reporting for internal and external leadership stakeholders.
- Manage deployment readiness: data center preparedness for power, cooling, racks, structured cabling, security, and connectivity.
- Align design and engineering approvals with finance, procurement, legal, logistics, deployment, and cutover planning.
- Oversee logistics, rack-and-stack, integration activities, and coordination with physical data center teams.
- Own milestone sign-off and formal acceptance gates, ensuring timely client endorsement of delivery milestones.
- Maintain auditable acceptance trail that governs vendor payment releases.
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- PMP certification required; PRINCE2 is also acceptable.
- ITIL and/or relevant data center or cloud certifications (e.g., CDCP, CCNA, AWS, VMware) are an advantage.
- Experience
- 5-8 years of IT project management experience, with at least 5 years leading complex technology, infrastructure, or data center delivery programs.
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