AI Project Manager​/Scrum Master - Senior Associate

About Us

With offices in 152 countries and nearly 328,000 professionals, we are one of the world’s leading professional services networks, helping organisations and individuals create lasting value through Assurance, Tax and Advisory services. For over 40 years, we have contributed to the Middle East’s transformation journey, partnering with governments and businesses to deliver sustainable solutions. Today, more than 12,000 of us across Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are shaping the region’s future.

Internal Firm Services (IFS) brings together the specialist functions that enable PwC Middle East to run, grow and transform—supporting our people, clients and business with the capabilities needed for the future of work. A career in IFS offers diverse opportunities across Human Capital, Finance, Technology & AI, Clients & Markets, Marketing & Communications, Risk & Quality, Partner Development, Office Management, and Transformation & Change.

As we continue to embed data, technology and new-age AI into how we work, we are hiring talent who can help our teams become more AI-enabled, digitally confident and ready to create greater value across PwC Middle East.

T he AI Centre of Excellence (AI CoE) is our central engine for AI strategy, product build, and scale. It governs standards and cost and risk controls, runs AI Factory squads to design and ship custom AI solutions and reusable frameworks (LLM and RAG stacks, integrations on Azure), provides technical consultation on architecture, solution design, and best practices, and drives workforce transformation through training and upskilling to accelerate adoption across our lines of service.

Operating within IFS, the CoE partners with Experience Design and adjacent technology teams, follows a codified operating model and RACI for approvals and observability, and supports proposals, demos, and delivery with a focus on distinctive outcomes and trusted leadership.

As a Project Manager/Scrum Master, you’ll be responsible for coordinating and delivering AI and GenAI initiatives using Agile methodologies. The role combines project management, sprint facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and delivery governance to ensure successful execution of AI products and solutions. Working closely with Product Managers, Architects, Engineers, and business stakeholders, the role ensures delivery commitments are met, risks are proactively managed, and teams operate efficiently within the AI CoE delivery framework.

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Support backlog refinement activities and sprint readiness.
• Track sprint progress and team commitments.
• Identify and remove delivery impediments and blockers.
• Promote Agile best practices and continuous improvement within the team.
• Help teams improve sprint predictability, quality, and delivery performance.

• Develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, and delivery plans.
• Coordinate activities across business and technical teams.
• Track project progress against agreed timelines and deliverables.
• Monitor dependencies, risks, assumptions, and issues.
• Escalate delivery concerns appropriately and ensure timely resolution.
• Leveraging historical project data to spot bottlenecks, predict delays, and prevent budget overruns before they occur.
• Support project governance and status reporting.

• Act as a central point of coordination between stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Communicate project status, risks, and key decisions to stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment between business expectations and delivery commitments.

• Support delivery of AI, GenAI, automation, analytics, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Coordinate activities between Product Managers, Architects, Developers, QA, and Business Analysts.
• Ensure project activities align with AI CoE delivery standards and governance requirements.

• Prepare weekly project status…