Associate Director, AI Model Manager

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KPMG is currently seeking an Associate Director, AI Model Manager to join our Digital Nexus Technology organization. This is a hybrid work opportunity.

• Manage the overall delivery of AI‑related technology products and releases utilizing agile and other product management methodologies; set tactical plans that align strategic AI/ML model objectives with firm priorities.
• Maintain AI model roadmaps, lifecycle processes, governance controls, and feature backlogs, ensuring prioritization based on business outcomes; monitor risks, issues, model performance, regulatory impacts, and overall platform health.
• Operate as a key advisor to clients and proactively initiate ideas to improve client centricity; drive and manage shared assignments and large‑scale programs, including model‑enabling services such as ingestion pipelines, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) frameworks, and production model operations.
• Provide leadership and direction to remove obstacles and ensure teams have tools and guidance to execute on programs and products; collaborate with architecture, security, and engineering teams to ensure models meet release‑readiness requirements, including testing, validation, and responsible AI criteria.
• Enable optimized governance and integrated management of cost, schedule, and effort ensuring on‑time, on‑budget, and on‑value realization; prepare and present executive‑level status updates to sponsors and leadership teams.
• Interact regularly with delivery partners and department leaders; contribute to departmental strategy and priorities.
• Act with integrity, professionalism and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment.

• Minimum eight years of recent experience in advanced program or product management, including planning and executing large‑scale products and programs; experience with AI/ML model lifecycle management or model‑driven platforms is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required; master's degree from an accredited college or university and PMP certification are preferred.
• Experience managing multi‑phase, multi‑track projects spanning nine to twenty‑four months.
• Comprehensive knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), infrastructure deployment, IT transformation, and industry best practices.
• Ability to make high‑complexity decisions autonomously.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, negotiation, and influencing skills; ability to motivate teams and drive execution of strategic initiatives.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment‑based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H‑1B, L‑1, TN, O‑1, E‑3, H‑1B1, F‑1, J‑1, OPT, CPT or any other employment‑based visa).

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