Lead Program Manager Job McLean area,Virginia USA,Business

JOB SUMMARY:

The Lead Program Manager, AI Transformation leads enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives that advance business objectives, improve operational effectiveness, and deliver measurable value. This senior individual contributor translates enterprise strategy into an integrated transformation roadmap; aligns numerous interdependent work streams; and applies program management best practices to plan, coordinate, and implement AI-enabled solutions across the organization. Partnering with business, technology, talent, and other functions, the role drives adoption, manages priorities and dependencies, and supports value realization.

JOB

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead the enterprise AI transformation program from strategy through implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement; ensure work is aligned to business priorities, approved investment plans, and enterprise risk requirements.

Develop and maintain an integrated multi-year transformation roadmap, operating plan, workstream charters, milestones, dependency map, resource plan, and benefits realization approach across Technology, Product, Operations, Talent, Security, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and other functions.

Establish and operate program governance, including executive steering forums, workstream cadences, decision rights, escalation paths, risk and issue management, and transparent reporting that enables timely leadership decisions.

Coordinate and influence workstream leaders and matrixed teams to deliver connected outcomes across AI strategy, platform and tooling, data readiness, governance, security, training, change management, use-case delivery, and adoption.

Partner with senior leaders to identify, assess, prioritize, and sequence AI opportunities based on business value, feasibility, data and technology readiness, risk, cost, and organizational capacity.

Define program success measures and maintain executive-ready dashboards that communicate delivery health, adoption, value realization, capabilities, risks, investment, and decisions required.

Drive cross-workstream dependency management; identify and resolve barriers involving data, architecture, infrastructure, vendor agreements, security, privacy, compliance, workforce readiness, and operating-model changes.

Partner with Training, Change Management, and Communications to support role-based enablement, advocate networks, communities of practice, and sustainable adoption of new AI ways of working.

Facilitate workshops and executive forums to clarify strategy, evaluate tradeoffs, align stakeholders, and convert complex or ambiguous issues into actionable decisions and plans.

Manage program budgets, vendor relationships, statements of work, forecasts, and investment tracking; partner with Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Technology leaders to support sound decisions and delivery commitments.

Ensuring AI transformation work incorporates appropriate governance, security, privacy, legal, regulatory, ethical-use, evaluation, observability, and operational readiness practices, including HIPAA requirements where applicable.

Collaborate, coordinate, and communicate across disciplines and departments.

Ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations and requirements.

Demonstrate Company's Core Competencies and values held within.

Please note due to the exposure of PHI sensitive data, this role is considered to be a High-Risk Role.

The position responsibilities outlined above are in no way to be construed as all encompassing. Other duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may be required and/or assigned as necessary.

JOB SCOPE:

The incumbent operates with substantial independence and exercises advanced judgment in leading a highly visible, enterprise-wide transformation program with numerous concurrent work streams and executive stakeholders. Decisions and recommendations influence enterprise strategy, technology and data investments, operating models, workforce adoption, risk posture, and measurable business outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor role without direct people-management authority; however, the incumbent leads matrixed teams, influences leaders at all levels, directs program work, mentors colleagues, and regularly advises executives.

The role manages sensitive information and maintains significant relationships with internal leaders, vendors, and other external stakeholders.

JOB REQUIREMENTS (Education, Experience, and Training):

Minimum bachelor's degree in business administration,…